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UCSF Stroke Expert Wins Award for Excellence

March 06, 2008
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Dr. S. Claiborne Johnston, director of the Neurovascular Disease and Stroke Center at UCSF Medical Center, was honored with the William Feinberg Award for Excellence in Clinical Stroke by the American Stroke Association at the International Stroke Conference 2008.

The award honors "significant achievement in the clinical investigation and management of stroke." Johnston, who is a UCSF professor of neurology and epidemilogy, has published extensively on prevention and treatment of stroke and transient ischemic attack. He has led several large-cohort studies of cerebrovascular disease and three multicenter, randomized trials.

Johnston treats patients with cerebral aneurysms, vascular malformations and stroke in the Neurological Intensive Care Unit and on the wards. Most of his care of patients occurs in the hospital, but he also sees some patients with complex neurovascular problems in the clinic.

In his research, he studies stroke treatment and prevention, using the tools of computer science and epidemiology.

He is the executive vice editor of the Annals of Neurology and has served on the editorial boards of several other journals. He previously has been honored with the American Stroke Associations Siekert New Investigator Award and the American Academy of Neurologys Pessin Prize for Stroke Leadership.

He earned a medical degree at Harvard Medical School and completed residency training in neurology at UCSF. He completed a fellowship with the Neurovascular Service at UCSF and received a Ph.D. in epidemiology from the UC Berkeley School of Public Health.

The Feinberg Award, supported by an educational grant from the pharmaceutical firm Boehringer Ingelheim, is named for Dr. William Feinberg (19521997), a prominent stroke researcher and American Heart Association volunteer who contributed to a fuller understanding of the causes of stroke.

The UCSF stroke center was the first center in San Francisco to be accredited as a primary stroke center by the national Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations.

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