Editor of Neurology: Clinical Practice Accelerator

Neha S. Dangayach, MD, MSCR, FNCS, FAAN, FCCP, FCCM

Neha S. Dangayach, MD, MSCR, FNCS, FAAN, FCCP, FCCM, is an Associate Professor of Neurology and Neurosurgery. Dr. Dangayach serves as the Research Director for Neurocritical care and Recovery and Systems Director for Neuroemergencies Management and Transfers (NEMAT) for the Mount Sinai Health System. She is also a Co-Director of the Mount Sinai Hospital’s busy NSICU. As a health services and outcomes researcher, she focuses on systems of care for stroke, understanding the roles of resilience and spirituality in critical care recovery, and social media in medicine. Dr. Dangayach serves as the PI of the NEMAT lab with a mission to develop innovative solutions for preventing fragmentation of care, addressing variabilities in care delivery, leveraging clinical data science, and improving patient centered outcomes for neuroemergencies.

She has received several awards for excellence in teaching, research, and clinical care. She has published over 85 peer reviewed manuscripts, has given over 100 national and international invited talks; serves on several committees for the American Academy of Neurology (AAN), Society of Critical Care Medicine (SCCM), Chest, Neurocritical Care Society, the Curing Coma Campaign, Team EmCrit among others. She believes in paying it forward, in the power of multidisciplinary collaboration, team science, and positive thinking.