Babak Navi, MD, is a native New Yorker who received his medical degree from New York University, where he graduated with honors (Alpha Omega Alpha Society). He completed a residency in neurology at the Weill Cornell Medical Center and served as the Chief Resident in his final year. He then went on to complete a two-year fellowship in vascular neurology at the University of California, San Francisco, working closely with his esteemed mentor, S. Claiborne Johnston. During this time, he became certified in comprehensive neurosonology; served as a local investigator on NIH funded, multi-center clinical trials; and published numerous, impactful papers in the field of vascular neurology. In 2011, Dr. Navi returned to New York to become the Director of the Stroke Center at New York-Presbyterian Hospital/Weill-Cornell Medical Center and an Assistant Professor of Neurology.
Dr. Navi is an expert on the relationship of stroke and cancer and has written numerous papers and a book chapter on this topic. He also holds research interests in cryptogenic stroke, physician prognostication in severe brain injury, cerebrovascular presentations of dizziness, and the role of statin therapy for stroke. He has been published in high impact peer-reviewed journals, including Neurology, Archives of Neurology, Critical Care Medicine, and Stroke. In addition, he is on the editorial board of the journal Neurohospitalist.
