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Vasileios-Arsenios Lioutas

Dr. Lioutas is a Vascular Neurologist at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center and an Associate Professor of Neurology at Harvard Medical School. He serves as the Director of the Vascular Neurology Fellowship program at the BIDMC. His research interests include the epidemiology of stroke, and he is an Investigator at the Framingham Heart Study, the Black Women’s Health Study. He has special interest in intracerebral hemorrhage and cerebral small vessel disease and is the PI of an Alzheimer’s Association research grant investigating cortical microinfarcts in the general population. Dr. Lioutas has published extensively on the topic of anticoagulation-associated intracerebral hemorrhage. He is an alumnus of the first class of the World Stroke Organization’s Future Leaders Program and has significant interest in the global aspects of stroke. He spearheaded the effort for establishment of the first stroke unit and thrombolysis services in Ethiopia in 2021-2022. He has several ongoing stroke clinical research collaborations in Ethiopia, Tanzania and Egypt.