Stony Brook Celebrates New Expanded Clinical and Research Center for Acute Stroke, Brain Aneurysms, AVMs and Other Vascular Anomalies

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Stony Brook Celebrates New Expanded Clinical and Research Center for Acute Stroke, Brain Aneurysms, AVMs and Other Vascular Anomalies
Unveils One-of-a Kind Simulator That Will Help Advance Clinical Expertise, Teaching and Research for Neurosciences at Stony Brook University
STONY BROOK, N.Y. – Stony Brook University Medical Center will unveil this Friday a one-of-a-kind neuroendovascular simulator that recreates vasculature in the brain, including scenarios of damaged vessels from acute stroke, brain aneurysms, and other cerebrovascular anomalies.  



Dr. David Fiorella performs his first case on "Headley," using the Artis Zeego.

Affectionately known in the lab as “Headley,” the simulator – co-invented by B. Barry Lieber, PhD, a nationally recognized biomedical engineer and one of the world’s foremost authorities on brain vasculature and Director of the Cerebrovascular Research Center at SBUMC – will profoundly impact research, teaching, diagnosis and treatment of neurovascular disease. Stroke is the number three cause of death behind heart attack and cancer in the U.S.  Every 40 seconds, someone in the U.S. has a stroke and every four minutes, someone dies of one.  Supported by the most sophisticated imaging technology and the only robotically powered multi-axis angiography imaging technology  on the east coast dedicated solely to research known as the Artis zeego, “Headley” will be introduced to the public for the first time by Dr. Lieber along with Drs. Henry Woo and David Fiorella, Endovascular Neurosurgeons and co-Directors of Stony Brook’s new Cerebrovascular Center, at an event commemorating the opening of the Cerebrovascular Center on December 17 at 12 noon in the Hospital lobby.  Another highlight planned for the December 17 ceremony are first hand life-and-death stories as told by patients and family members who experienced severe neurological events, and how they were treated at the



"Headley," the Cerebrovascular Simulator

Cerebrovascular Center and now return to Stony Brook to share their stories.  Also making remarks at the event will be Dr. ...

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