Neal F. Kassell, M.D.

Professor of Neurosurgery, Cerebrovascular Surgery division co-director
Co-Director, Comprehensive Stroke Center
University of Virginia Health Sciences Center

Dr. Kassell is a member of numerous medical societies in the United States and abroad. He has served on many standing and ad hoc committees of the National Institutes of Health and in an editorial capacity for a variety of academic journals, and currently is a member of the editorial boards of Neurosurgery, Stroke, and Turkish Neurosurgery. Dr. Kassell has been a recipient of the McKenzie Memorial Award of the Canadian Neurosurgical Society, the Grass Award of the Society of Neurological Surgeons, and the first Van Wagenen lectureship of the American Association of Neurological Surgeons. He has an active clinical practice specializing in patients with cerebral vascular disease, including aneurysms and arteriovenous malformations. His research interests have concentrated on intracranial aneurysms and other causes of stroke and have resulted in more than 450 publications, supported by over $30 million in grants and contracts from NIH and industry. Dr. Kassell was a founder of Interax, Inc., the Virginia Neurological Institute, Multimedia Medical Systems, Inc., the Neuroclinical Trials Center, the NeuroVenture Fund, MedSpecialists.net, and The Focused Ultrasound Surgery Foundation.