Pooja Khatri, MD, MSc, chair and Albert E. Kent Professor of Neurology at Yale School of Medicine, has been elected to membership in the Association of American Physicians. Election to the association is an honor extended to physicians with outstanding credentials in basic or translational biomedical research and is limited to 70 people per year.
Khatri is an internationally recognized expert in stroke care and research. Her work spans acute stroke therapy, prevention of early stroke recurrence, development of radiological biomarkers, and clinical trial design. She has co-directed the National Coordinating Center of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) StrokeNet since it launched in 2013. StrokeNet serves as the main infrastructure for developing and implementing multicenter stroke trials funded by the NIH.
Khatri is chief of neurology at Yale New Haven Hospital and the Yale New Haven Health System. She has held leadership roles on the World Stroke Organization Executive Committee, the Stroke Council of the American Heart Association, and the European Stroke Organization’s Guidelines Board.