The American Stroke Association, based in Dallas, was founded in 1998 as a division of the American Heart Association. It recently announced the winners of 11 awards for excellence in stroke and brain health care research. Three of the winners are women with academic ties to universities in the United States.
Pooja Khatri was honored with the William M. Feinberg Award for Excellence in Clinical Stroke. The award recognizes significant contributions to the investigation and management of clinical research in stroke. An internationally recognized expert in stroke care and research, Dr. Khatri is a professor and chair of the department of neurology at Yale School of Medicine. She also serves as chief of neurology at Yale New Haven Hospital and the Yale New Haven Health System. Professor Khatri earned a master’s degree in clinical epidemiology at the Harvard School of Public Health and a medical degree at the University of Chicago.
Soomin Jeong was the recipient of the Stroke Basic Science Award. She is a postdoctoral fellow at the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia. The Stroke Basic Science Award recognizes outstanding laboratory-based basic or translational science. Dr. Jeong is a graduate of the University of Illinois, where she majored in cell and molecular biology. She holds a master’s degree in biomedical sciences from Seoul National University in South Korea and a Ph.D. in neuroscience from the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Daniela Renedo received the Mordecai Y.T. Globus New Investigator Award. She is an endovascular neurosurgery fellow in the department of neurosurgery at Yale School of Medicine. Her research focuses on the socioeconomic and biological underpinnings of neurovascular disease, with an emphasis on multi-omics approaches, large-scale population cohorts, and precision medicine. She completed her medical degree at Austral University in Pilar, Argentina, and neurosurgery residency training at the Hospital de Clínicas José de San Martín in Buenos Aires.