Muhammad Umar Farooq MD

As the medical director of the stroke program at Mercy Health Hauenstein Neuroscience, Dr. Farooq works closely with the emergency department physicians, making sure patients arriving with stroke symptoms are quickly diagnosed and treated. If a CT scan shows a patient is having an ischemic stroke – the most common type in which a vessel in the brain is blocked by a blood clot – a drug promptly is administered to dissolve it and minimize damage.