Research fellow
Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center / Harvard Medical School
Omar Alwakaa, MD Candidate, is a research fellow at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center/ Harvard Medical School (Boston, MA, USA) and a final-year medical student at Philipps-University Marburg (Marburg, Germany). His academic work centers on neurovascular and cerebrovascular outcomes research, with a particular focus on revascularization strategies, imaging-based phenotyping, and rigorous clinical research methodology. He contributes to multi-institutional collaborations that evaluate perioperative and long-term outcomes in complex cerebrovascular disease, leveraging advanced statistical approaches to address confounding and heterogeneity in real-world datasets. His broader interests include optimizing patient selection, refining outcome definitions, and translating neuroimaging and angiographic findings into clinically actionable decision-making. Through this work, he aims to strengthen the evidence base guiding contemporary cerebrovascular surgery and stroke care.
Disclosure(s): No financial relationships to disclose