The Duke Neurology Departments Nada El Husseini, MD, and Andrew Spector, MD, both appeared in the American Academy of Neurologys (AAN) AAN Alumni Leadership Newsletter for October 2020, where they discussed transforming telestroke during a global health crisis and how neurologists can reduce racial health disparities.

El Husseini, a 2020 graduate of the AANs Transforming Leadership Program (TLP), spoke with Daniel Jose Correa, MD, MSC, about her year-long project to optimize telestroke care. El Husseini discussed her efforts to add standardized, patient-centered measures of outcomes in Dukes stroke network, improve wellness and satisfaction of telestroke providers, and include telestroke education in our Vascular Neurology Fellowship. Correa and El Husseini also discussed North Carolina and Dukes response to the COVID-19 pandemic, and how that pandemic affected (and continues to affect) telemedicine and the needs of patients with neurological conditions.

Spector, meanwhile, spoke with Ima Ebong, MD, as representatives of neurologists with different racial backgrounds to provide their perspectives on racial inequalities, and how the AAN and individual neurologists can make a difference.

Read both of these articles here in the AANs Leadership Alumni Newsletter.

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