Dawn O. Kleindorfer MD

Dawn Kleindorfer, MD, is a Professor of Neurology and Vascular Neurology Division Director in the Department of Neurology at the University of Cincinnati. She completed her medical degree at Washington University in St. Louis, and her neurology residency training at the University of Michigan where she was named chief resident. She then completed her fellowship in vascular neurology at the University of Cincinnati, where she remains a clinical research faculty member.

In her faculty position, she is active in the clinical care of stroke patients, teaching of students, residents and fellows as the vascular neurology fellowship director, and clinical research. Her research interests include health disparities in stroke with regards to race, socioeconomic status and gender, epidemiology and public awareness of stroke, stroke prevention clinical trials, and acute stroke care treatment utilization.

Dr. Kleindorfer has been presented several clinical research grant awards, including the Hazel K. Goddess Stroke Research for Women Scholarship for an innovative project to educate African American women, the “Beautyshop Project”, as well as awards from the National Institutes of Health, the National Stroke Association, and the Centers for Disease Control. She is an author on 96 peer-reviewed publications and over 200 abstract presentations to national scientific conferences. Recently, she was awarded the Derek Denny-Brown Neurological Clinical Scholar Award by the American Neurological Association for outstanding clinical research.