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    Stacey Q. Wolfe, MD

    Chair
    Wake Forest University

    Stacey Quintero Wolfe, MD, FAANS, is the Eben Alexander Chair of Neurological Surgery at Wake Forest School of Medicine and a Professor of Neurological Surgery and Radiology. She has expertise in endovascular neurological surgery, cerebrovascular and skull base surgery. Following Endovascular and Cerebrovascular/Skull Base Fellowships at the University of Miami, she served as a Lieutenant Commander in the U.S. Navy. She joined Wake Forest School of Medicine in 2013 and serves as Director of Neurointerventional Surgery and Residency Program Director for neurological surgery.

    Dr. Wolfe is experienced in clinical and translational research in cerebrovascular disease and serves as the site co-PI of NINDS StrokeNet, is the StrokeNet site Fellowship Director, and is on the Wake Forest advisory committee for NINDS NeuroNEXT. She has been institutional PI of multiple clinical stroke and aneurysm trials, including NIH funded MISTIE III, ASPIRE, STEP and SATURN.Her lab focuses on biologic variables of neuroinflammation after ICH and is investigating Piezo1 in the growth and ruptured of cerebral aneruysms.

    At the national level, Dr. Wolfe serves on the AANS Board of Directors as a Director at Large, the editorial board of JNS, and the NREF board. She has served as the Chair of the Medical Student Committee of the Society of Neurological Surgeons, Chair of the AANS/CNS Joint Section on Women in Neurosurgery, Chair of the AANS Young Neurosurgeons Committee (YNC), and Chair of the CSNS AANS Caucus. She serves on the AANS Scientific Program Committee, the Executive Committee of the AANS/CNS Joint Section of Cerebrovascular Surgery, and has served on the Joint Guidelines Committee for the CV Section, the editorial board of the AANS Neurosurgeon, the Education Committee, and Executive Committee of the Congress of Neurological Surgery. As Chair of the YNC, she began the AANS Medical Student Chapters. She has served on the AHA Stroke Task force, Mission Stroke, and on the Neurosurgical Task force for the Pan-African Academy of Christian Surgeons as Curriculum Advisor for the neurosurgical residency program in Tenwek, Kenya.

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