Dr. Ashkan Mowla Receives Junior Investigator Award
Posted: November 15, 2016 Filed under: Events, Neurological Diseases, News Leave a commentAshkan Mowla, MD, Assistant Professor of Neurology, has received a Junior Investigator Travel Award from the International Stroke Conference (ISC) for his paper, “Intravenous thrombolysis with alteplase for acute ischemic stroke in patients with thrombocytopenia.” Dr. Mowla will be presenting several abstracts at the upcoming conference to be held in Houston, Texas in February 2017. For more information about the Univ. at Buffalo Dept. of Neurology’s stroke division’s activities at the ISC, see the accompanying story from earlier this month.
Ashkan Mowla, MD
UB Dept. of Neurology Stroke Division to Present at Intl Stroke Conference
Posted: November 9, 2016 Filed under: Events, Neurological Diseases, News Leave a commentThe stroke division of the UB Dept. of Neurology will present 5 papers at the upcoming International Stroke Conference to be held February 22-24, 2017 in Houston, TX. Stroke faculty named on the abstracts include Drs. Marilou Ching, Christopher Deline, Amit Kandel, Ashkan Mowla, and Robert Sawyer. Several current and recently graduated housestaff are also listed as authors, including Khaleeq Ahmed, Haris Kamal, Sanhya Mehla, and Aurangzeb Memon. Annemarie Crumlish, research coordinator, and Navdeep Lail, research assistant, played key organizational roles. The presentations include research investigations into the risk of home antiplatelet and subtherapeutic anticoagulant therapy on intravenous (thrombolysis (IV tPA), impact of low platelet counts on IV tPA, and outcomes of stroke occurring during hospitalization.
Drs. Ashkan Mowla, Peyman Shirani, Robert Sawyer, and Christopher Deline (left to right)
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