Thomas G. Brott MD

Thomas G. Brott, M.D., is a neurologist at Mayo Clinic hospital in Jacksonville, Florida who treats conditions that include: atrial fibrillation, cerebrovascular disease, intracranial hemorrhage, ischemic stroke, stroke, and subarachnoid hemorrhage. He performs procedures that entail left atrial appendage closure, transplants, and therapeutic hypothermia. Dr. Brott is passionate about acute stroke therapy, hemostatic markers in acute ischemic stroke, aneurysmal subarachnoid hemorrhage, intracranial hemorrhage, and hypothermia for ischemic brain injury.

Dr. Brott received his medical degree from the University of Chicago, followed by his medical internship at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston, Massachusetts (formerly Beth Israel Hospital). He then completed his neurology residency at the Harvard Longwood Neurology Program in Boston. He has served as chair of the Stroke Council of the American Heart Association, vice-chair of the National Stroke Association and chair of the Advisory Committee to the Neurological Devices Panel of the FDA. He received the 2013 Clinical Research Prize and the 2017 Research Achievement Award conferred by the American Heart Association. Mayo Clinic honored him with the Distinguished Investigator Award in 2014.