Lee H. Schwamm MD, FAHA, FANA

Dr. Schwamm graduated from Harvard Medical School and completed his neurology residency and subsequent NeuroCritical Care and Vascular Neurology fellowships at Massachusetts General Hospital. He is Professor of Neurology at Harvard Medical School, and C. Miller Fisher Chair of Vascular Neurology at MGH, where he is Executive Vice Chairman of Neurology, Chief of the Stroke Division, and Director of the Comprehensive Stroke Center and the Center for TeleHealth. He serves as co-chair of the Innovation Council, and Chair of Stroke Quality for Partners Healthcare.

He is the author of >300 peer-reviewed articles and chaired many of the current practice guidelines for stroke and telehealth-enabled care delivery. He has received numerous awards for innovation, leadership, and advocacy in the field of stroke. His pioneering work includes leadership of the first large-scale and longest-running national TeleStroke Network, currently serving 52 hospitals in 7 states, and the AHA’s Get With The Guidelines-Stroke, the world's largest stroke registry with >4.7 million patient records.

His clinical interests are in cerebrovascular diseases, telehealth, and clinical trials, and he is a recognized leader in the fields of acute stroke treatment, stroke systems of care, health services research, and telehealth. His research has been funded by numerous organizations, including Harvard, MIT, NIBIB, NINDS, CDC, PCORI AHRQ, HRSA, and the Department of the Army. He is a long-standing and dedicated AHA volunteer who currently chairs or co-chairs the Quality Oversight Committee, Healthcare Accreditation Science Committee, Brain Health & Healthy Aging Taskforce, and Mission-Lifeline Stroke and serves on numerous other scientific and AHA Board subcommittees.