Farzaneh Aghdassi Sorond MD, PhD

Dr. Farzaneh Sorond received her BS in Biochemistry and Biophysics at the University of Houston before earning her MD and Ph.D. at Baylor College of Medicine. After a residency at Harvard-Longwood, Dr. Sorond completed her Stroke and Neurocritical Care fellowship at Brigham and Women's Hospital, taking on a faculty position at Harvard Medical School soon after in 2001. Dr. Sorond joined Northwestern in 2015 as a professor and the Vice Chair for Faculty Development for the Department of Neurology. In 2017, she was appointed the Division Chief for Stroke and Neurocritical Care. Two years later in 2019, she was named Associate Dean for Faculty Development at Feinberg School of Medicine.

Dr. Sorond is a vascular neurologist focused on understanding, preventing, and treating vascular contributions to acute and chronic brain injury and age-related consequences of motor and cognitive decline. She has made multiple significant scientific discoveries that have advanced our understanding of brain vascular aging and cerebral small vessel function focused primarily on age-related brain white matter lesions (WML) and the accompanying decline in cognition and mobility.