OUR LEADERSHIP
Founded by The Society for Vascular and Interventional Neurology in 2016, Mission Thrombectomy has regional task forces all over the world. The committee is comprised of doctors that are experts in their specialty, and are all passionate about the life saving benefits of mechanical thrombectomy.
SVIN Mission Thrombectomy Core Executive Committee (CEC)
Dileep YavagalChair
Santiago Ortega-Gutierrez, MD, MSc, FAHA, FSVINVice-Chair
Kaiz Asif, MD
Fawaz Al-Mufti, MD
Mohammad El-Ghanem, MD
Gabor Toth, MD
Hesham E. Masoud, MD, RPNI, CHSE
Victor C. Urrutia, MD, FAHA
Qingliang Tony Wang, MD., PhD.
Nishita Singh, MD
Shashvat Desai, MD
Kunakorn Atchaneeyasakul, MD
Sushanth Aroor, MD
Krishna Amuluru, MD
Kaustubh Limaye, MD
Pankajavalli Ramakrishnan, MD
Viktor Szeder, MD, PhD, MSc, FSVIN
Chetan Venkatasubb Rao, MD
Global Advisory Committee
Andrew Demchuk, MD
Xiaochuan Huo, MD, PhD
Thomas WH Leung
Mehari Gebreyohanns, MD
P. N. Sylaja, MD
Zhongrong Miao, MD
Ossama Mansour, MD, PhD
Sheila Martins, MD
Find your regional committee members
Vietnam
Vu Dang Luu
Yemen
Mohammed Taher
Co-chair StrokeUSA
Shakir Hussain
Vietnam
Anh Luong
Vietnam
Lê Vũ Huỳnh
Co-Chair NITVietnam
Prof Nguyen Huy Thang
Co-Chair StrokeVietnam
Tran Thanh Vu
Co-chair NITUruguay
Claudio Berrutti
Co-chair StrokeUruguay
Roberto Crossa
Co-chair NITUSA
Opeolu Adeoye
Co-Chair StrokeUSA
Pankaja
USA
Seon Kyu Lee
Turkey
Semih Giray
Co-Chair StrokeUAE
Seby John
Co-Chair StrokeUAE
Syed Irteza
Co-Chair NITUK
Sanjeev Nayak
Ukraine
Dmytro Lebedynets
Co-chair StrokeUkraine
Stanislav Konotopchik
Co-chair NITUkraine
Yuriy Flomin
Thailand
Surasak Komonchan
Tunisia
Nadia hammami
Co-Chair NITTunisia
Samia Ben Sassi
Co-Chair StrokeTurkey
Atilla Ozcan Ozdemir
Co-chair NITTurkey
Erol Akgul
Turkey
Saruhan Cekirge
Tanzania- Eastern Africa
Philip Adebayo
Co-chair StrokeThailand
Dilok Tantongtip
Thailand
Jarturon Tantiwatana
Thailand
Kittipong Riabroi
Co-chair NITThailand
Pornchai Sathirapanya
Thailand
Prof Nijasri C. Suwanwela
Co-chair StrokeThailand
Sombat Muengtaweepongsa
Taiwan
Kwo Whei Lee
Taiwan
Prof. Hon Man Liu
Taiwan
Prof. Jeng Jiann Shing
Taiwan
Yen Pao Sheng
Tanzania- Eastern Africa
Sarah Matuja
Regional Co-chairSudan
Sarah misbah el-sadig
Co-chair StrokeSweden
Michael Soderman
Switzerland
Paolo Machi
Switzerland
Zsolt Kulcsarz
Syria
radwan elkadery
Co-chair StrokeSouthern Africa
Naeem Brey
Regional Co-chairSouthern Africa
Stacy Rossouw
Regional Co-chairSpain
Mario Martinez Galdamez
Sri lanka
Prasad De Silva
Co-Chair NITSri lanka
Harsha Gunasekara
Co-chair StrokeSri lanka
Udaya Ranawaka
Co-chair StrokeSudan
Haytham Hussein Mohammed Osman
Co-Chair NITSlovenia
Janja Pretnar Oblak
Co-Chair StrokeSlovenia
Igor Rigler
Co-Chair ERSlovenia
Senta Frol
Co-Chair StrokeSouth Korea
Bum Soo Kim
South Korea
Byung Moon Kim
South Korea
Dong Hun Kang
South Korea
Woong Yoon
Singapore
Prof Deidre Anne De Silva
Co-Chair StrokeSingapore
Wicky Lee
Co-chair NITSlovakia
Andrej Klepanec
Co-chair NITSlovakia
Georgi Krastev
Co-chair StrokeSlovakia
Kamil Zele_ák
Co-chair NITSlovakia
Vladimír Nosál
Co-chair StrokeSaudi Arabia
Adel Alhazzani
Co-Chair StrokeSaudi Arabia
Ammar
Saudi Arabia
Hosam Al-jehani
Co-chair NITSingapore
Anil Gopinathan
Singapore
Leonard Yeo
Puerto Rico
Rafael Rodriguez Mercado
Co-chair NITPuerto Rico
Rodolfo Alcedo-Guardia
Co-chair NITPuerto Rico
Yadira Dacosta
Qatar
Ayman Zakeria
Co-chair NITQatar
Yehia Z Imam
Co-chair StrokePhilippines
JO ANN R. SOLIVEN
Philippines
Manuel Mariano
Co-chair NITPhilippines
Peter Rivera
Co-chair NITPoland
Adam Kobayashi
Co-chair NITPortugal
Teresa Melo
Peru
Carlos Abanto
Peru
Danny Barrientos
Peru
Jimmy palacios
Co-chair strokePeru
Manuel Moquillaza
Co-chair NITPeru
Marla Gallo
Co-chair NITPhilippines
Epifania Collantes
Co-chair strokePanama
Guadalupe Castillo
Co-chair strokePanama
Nelson Novarro
Co-chair NITParaguay
Analia Cardozo
Co-chair NITParaguay
Osvaldo Paniagua
Co-chair NITParaguay
Ricardo Mernes
Co-chair strokeParaguay
Tania Caballero
Co-chair strokeNigeria- Western Africa
Tomiwa Makanjuola
Regional Co-chairOman
Amal Alhashmi
co-chair strokePakistan
Mohammad Wasay
Co-chair StrokePakistan
Saima Ahmad
Co-chair NITPakistan
Umair Rashid Chaudhry
Co-chair NITNew Zealand
Alan Barber
New Zealand
Anna Ranta
Co-Chair NITNew Zealand
Teddy Wu
Nicaragua
Adrián Coulson Romero
co-chair strokeNicaragua
Edwing Rayo
Co-chair NITNicaragua
Pedro Gómez
co-chair strokeNigeria- Western Africa
Mayowa Owolabi
Regional Co-chairMexico
Marco Antonio Ochoa
Mexico
Vanessa Cano
Mongolia
Ariunaa Jambaldorj
Co-chair strokeMongolia
Ganbaatar Rentsenkhuu
Co-chair NITMyanmar
Prof Win Min Thit
Co-chair StrokeNepal
Subhash Phuyal
Co-Chair NITMexico
Fernando Gongora-Rivera
Co-chair NITMexico
Juan Calleja
Mexico
Juan Jose Ramirez
Mexico
Juan Manuel Marquez
Mexico
Luis Murillo
Malaysia
Prof. Khairul Azmi Abdul Kadir
Co-chair NITMalaysia
Wan Asyraf
Co-chair StrokeMexico
Alonso Gutierrez
Mexico
Antonio Arauz
Co-chair strokeMexico
Fernando Barinaga
Lebanon
Raghid Kikano
Co-Chair NITLebanon
Rushdi Ahdab
Co-Chair StrokeMalaysia
Prof Hamidon Basri
Malaysia
Prof Sobri Muda
Malaysia
Prof Tan Kay Sin
Japan
Nobuyuki Ohara
Jordan
farid eladham
Co-chair NITJordan
Haitham Dababneh
Co-chair NITKazakhstan
Mynzhylky Berdikhojayev
Co-chair NITKazakhstan
Sabina Medukhanova
Co-Chair StrokeItaly
Salvatore Mangiafico
Jamaica
Amza Ali
Co-chair StrokeJamaica
Kimikawa Morgan Channer
Japan
Hiroshi Yamagami
Co-chair StrokeJapan
Michihiro Tanaka
Japan
Noboyuki Sakai
Co-chair NITIran
Mohammed Ghorbani
Co-Chair NITIraq
Hasan Azeez Al-Hamadani
Co-chair StrokeIraq
Mustafa Khassaf
Co-chair NITIraq
Temeem Majid
Co-chair NITIsrael
Guy Raphaeli
India
Vivek Gupta
Indonesia
Achmad Firdaus Sani
Co-chair NITIndonesia
Bambang Tri Prasetyo
Indonesia
Ita Muharram Sari
Co-chair strokeIndonesia
Nur Setiawan Suroto
Iran
Mehdi Farhoudi
Co-Chair StrokeIndia
Rahul Kumar Singh
Co-chair NITIndia
Satish Lahoti
Co-chair NITIndia
Tariq Matin
India
V.G. Pradeep Kumar
Co-chair strokeIndia
Vikram Huded
India
Vipul Gupta
Co-chair NITIndia
Kalyan Chekrvarthy Sajja
India
Madan Mohan Gupta
India
Mathew Cherian
india
Nishtha Yadav
India
Padma Srivastava
Co-ChairIndia
Biplab Das
Co-chair NITIndia
Chandril Chugh
India
Dheeraj Khurana
Co-chair strokeIndia
Gigy Kurutukulam
Co-chair NITIndia
Jayanta Roy
Co-chair strokeindia
Jitender Saini
Hungary
Oláh László
Co-chair StrokeHungary
Istvan Szikora
India
Anand Alurkar
Co-chair NITIndia
Anil Karapurkar
Co-chair NITIndia
Arvind Sharma
Co-chair strokeIndia
Atulabh Vajpayee
Georgia
Mirza Khinikadze
Co-chair NITGreece
Panayiotis Mitsias
Co-chair StrokeHong Kong
Wing Chi FONG
Co-chair StrokeHong Kong
WL POON
Co-chair NITHungary
Szapary laszlo
Co-chair NITEgypt
farouk hassan
Co-Chair NITEthiopia- Eastern Africa
Yordanos Ashagre
Regional Co-chairFinland
Markku Kaste
France
Mikael Mazighi
Georgia
Alexander Tsiskaridze
Co-chair StrokeDominican Republic
Cosme Villaman
Hispanic Caribbean Co-ChairDominican Republic
Cristina Ramos
Co-chair StrokeDominican Republic
Luis Suazo
Hispanic Caribbean Co-ChairEcuador
German Abdo
Co-chair NITEcuador
Nelson Maldonado
Co-chair StrokeEgypt
eman khder
Co-Chair StrokeCroatia
Vladimir Kalousek
Co-chair NITCuba
Javier Vicente Sánchez
Co-chair StrokeCuba
Juan Carlos Llibre Guerra
Co-chair NITCzech Republic
Ale_ Tomek
Co-chair StrokeCzech Republic
Antonín Krajina
Co-chair NITDominican Republic
Amaury Garcia
Colombia
Carolina Estrada
Co-chair StrokeColombia
Diana Mantilla
Colombia
Rafael Perez
Colombia
Tony Alvarez
Co-chair StrokeCongo- Central Africa
Paul Macaire Ossou – Nguiet
Regional Co-chairCosta Rica
Alejandro Vargas Román
Co-chair NITCroatia
David Ozretic
Co-chair NITCroatia
Zdravka Poljakovic
Co-chair StrokeChile
Rodrigo Rivera
Co-chair NITChina
Jin Soo Lee
China
Xinfeng Liu
Colombia
Alejandro Villarraga
Co-chair StrokeColombia
Boris Pabon
Co-chair NITCaribbean
Nicholas Maraj
Caribbean
Romnesh De Souza
Chile
A. Hoppe
Chile
Arturo Alejandro Alonso Gomez
Co-chair NITChile
Pablo Lavados
Co-chair StrokeCanada
Bijoy Menon
Canada
Jai Jai Shiva Shankar
Co-chair NITCanada
Mayank Goyal
Caribbean
Daidre Ann Rowe
Anglo-Caribbean Co-ChairCaribbean
Francine Gayle
Anglo-Caribbean Co-ChairBrazil
Pedro Magalhaes
Co-chair NITBulgaria
Nuri Alioski
Co-chair NITBulgaria
Rossen Kalpachki
Co-Chair StrokeBulgaria
Stanimir Sirakov
Co-chair NITCameroon- Central Africa
Eric Bila
Bolivia
Jorge Botello
Co-chair NITBolivia
Victor Villarroel
Co-chair StrokeBrazil
Francisco Montalverne
Co-chair NITBrazil
Giselle Sampaio Silva
Co-Chair StrokeBrazil
Sheila Martins
Co-Chair StrokeBangladesh
Sirajee Shafiqul Islam
Co-chair NITBangladesh
Prof Quazi Deen Mohammad
AdvisorBangladesh
MD Shahidullah
Co-chair strokeBahrain
Wael Ebrahim
co-chair NITBahrain
Firas Khaleefah Alnidawi
Co-chair strokeBahamas
Magnus Ekedede
Austria
Monika Killer-Oberpfalzer
Australia
Vincent Thijs
Co-chair StrokeAustralia
Ronil Chandra
Co-chair NITAustralia
Peter Mitchell
Australia
Kate Mahady
Co-chair NITAustralia
Bruce Campbell
Co-chair StrokeAustralia
Bernard Yan
Co-chair NITAustralia
Alice Ma
Co-chair NITArgentina
Pedro Lylyk
Co-chair NITArgentina
Luis Lemme Plaghos
Co-chair NITArgentina
Juan Cirio
Co-chair StrokeArgentina
Gustavo Ortiz
Co-chair StrokeArgentina
Gustavo Foa Torres
Co-chair NITArgentina
Angel Ferrario
Co-chair NITAfghanistan
