MITCHELL S. ELKIND
Estados Unidos


Dr. Elkind is a tenured Professor of Neurology and Epidemiology at
Columbia University. He received his medical degree from Harvard Medical
School, and he trained in Internal Medicine at Brigham and Women’s
Hospital and in Neurology at Massachusetts General Hospital, both in
Boston, MA. He completed a fellowship in Vascular Neurology and
Neuroepidemiology at Columbia University Medical Center. Dr. Elkind holds
a Master’s degree in Epidemiology from Columbia’s Mailman School of
Public Health. Dr. Elkind’s research focuses on stroke prevention,
inflammatory and infectious biomarkers in stroke risk prediction, atrial
cardiopathy, immune therapy for acute stroke, and vascular causes of
cognitive aging. He is the second neurologist to serve as President of the
American Heart Association (AHA) in its 100 year history.