Divani, Afshin

Administrative Roles: Director of Stroke Research

Primary Hospital Affiliations:  Fairview-University of Minnesota Medical Center

Year of Appointment:  2008

Graduate School:  State University of New York at Buffalo, Ph.D. (2001)

Fellowships:

• Post-doctoral Stroke Research Fellow (2003-2005)
  Department of Neurosciences and Neurology
  UMDNJ- New Jersey Medical School
• Post-doctoral Sleep Disorder Research Fellow (2001-2002)
  Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care, Department of Medicine, SUNY at Buffalo

Research Interests:

• Cerebrovascular diseases and stroke
• Spinal Cord Injury (SCI)
• Research and development of endovascular and implantable devices
• Preclinical Stroke Models
• Hemodynamic
• Medical signal and image processing
• Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI)

Email:  divani@umn.edu

Dr. Afshin Divani has joined the University of Minnesota as an Assistant Professor of Neurology, Neurosurgery and Radiology.  After obtaining his doctorate degree, Dr. Divani received research fellowship training in sleep disorder in Department of Medicine in State University of New York at Buffalo.  He subsequently received a second research fellowship training in stroke in University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey.  He joined the University of Minnesota as the Director of Research of the Stroke Center.  He is a Fellow of American Heart Association (FAHA) and Stroke Council. Dr. Divani is a member of several national and International Professional Societies including American Heart Association (AHA), American Academy of Neurology (AAN), American Society of Interventional and Therapeutic Neuroradiology (ASITN), and Biomedical Engineering Society (BMES).