DAVID GREER, MD
Dr. David Greer is Professor and Chair of the Department of Neurology at Boston University School of Medicine and the Richard B. Slifka Chief of Neurology at Boston Medical Center. He has been a neurointensivist since 2001, having trained at Massachusetts General Hospital, where he began his
career. He was then Vice Chair at Yale from 2010-17, before joining Boston University and Boston Medical Center in 2017.
Dr. Greer has been editor-in-chief of Seminars in Neurology since 2013, and was the inaugural editor-in-chief for Neurocritical Care on Call. He has authored more than 350 peer-reviewed manuscripts, reviews, chapters, guidelines, and books. He is the Chair of the AAN Academic Neurology Committee, and is the current Vice President for the Neurocritical Care Society.
His research interests include predicting recovery from coma after cardiac arrest, brain death, and multiple stroke-related topics, including acute stroke treatment, temperature modulation, and stroke prevention. He is the co-PI for the INTREPID study, evaluating fever prevention for acute vascular brain
injury, and is a multiple R01-funded investigator focusing on neuroprognosis after cardiac arrest. He was the lead author for the World Brain Death Project published in JAMA in 2020, and for the 2023 AAN Guidelines in Brain Death.
Dr. Greer’s greatest passion is in education and mentorship. In 2022, he received the prestigious A.B. Baker Lifetime Achievement Award for Neurological Education from the American Academy of Neurology. He has mentored innumerable students, residents, fellows, and faculty, and considers himself a “lifelong mentor” for anyone and everyone he takes under his wing.
THANH NGUYEN, MD, FRCP, FSVIN, FAHA
Thanh N. Nguyen, MD, FRCP, FSVIN, FAHA, is a neurologist and Director of Interventional Neurology/ Neuroradiology at Boston Medical Center (BMC). Dr. Nguyen is also a Professor of Neurology, Neurosurgery and Radiology at Boston University Chobanian & Avedisian School of Medicine. She is currently President of the Society of Vascular and Interventional Neurology, the first woman in its 18-year history.
Her clinical and research interests include acute intra-arterial therapies for stroke, brain aneurysm, and pulsatile tinnitus endovascular treatments. An expert in interventional neuroradiology (INR), Dr. Nguyen has been involved in more than 3,000 INR procedures, including more than 500 brain aneurysm interventions and 400 acute stroke interventions. Dr. Nguyen has authored more than 500 publications and is Associate Editor of the Stroke Journal.
CHRISTOPHER S. OGILVY, MD
Christopher Ogilvy, MD is the Director, Endovascular and Operative Neurovascular Surgery, BIDMC Brain Aneurysm Institute, and Professor of Neurosurgery, Harvard Medical School. Dr. Ogilvy is known nationally and internationally for his work in neurointerventional and operative procedures, and has been a moving force in the field of neurovascular disease for the last twenty years.
Dr. Ogilvy’s research and academic endeavors are in the areas of neurovascular disease, including intracranial aneurysms, arteriovenous malformations, and atherosclerotic disease. Much of his work has been focused on studying outcomes of operative and endovascular procedures. In the laboratory, efforts have been focused on studying cerebral ischemia in the setting of neurovascular procedures, with a recent focus on the biology of intracranial aneurysms and the use of tissue engineering techniques to treat saccular intracranial aneurysms. He has pioneered several techniques in surgical procedures and is pursuing avenues of research in clinical treatment of patients with intracranial vascular problems using endovascular techniques.
Dr. Ogilvy is past President of the New England Neurosurgical Society and has served on numerous national neurosurgical committees. He is the Medical Director of the Brain Aneurysm Foundation, a national organization to help patients and families with brain aneurysms and to fund clinical and basic research. He is an Associate Editor for the journal Neurosurgery. He has published extensively, with over 550 original manuscripts and over 130 book chapters in the area of neurovascular surgery.