"Saad Abdul Sami Mir, M.D., is an Assistant Professor of Clinical Neurology at Weill Cornell Medical College and Assistant Attending Neurologist at NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital. He received his B.A. from Duke University and M.D. from University of Florida College of Medicine where he was inducted into Alpha Omega Alpha and the Gold Humanism Society. He was also chosen as a Doris Duke Clinical Research Scholar which he completed at University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center.   Dr. Mir completed his internship at Massachusetts’s General Hospital, neurology residency at Massachusetts General Hospital and Brigham and Women’s Hospital, and vascular neurology fellowship at Weill Cornell Medical Center. He was chosen as a LEAD Fellow at NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital where he received a Certificate in Business Excellence from Columbia Business School and developed tele-medicine initiatives to improve patient experience. He created and is the director of STAMP, a remote patient monitoring program aimed to improve outcomes in stroke patients. He is the Neurology Site Chief and Stroke Director at Lower Manhattan Hospital and the Associate Medical Director for the NewYork-Presbyterian Mobile Stroke Treatment Unit, which has 3 ambulances providing stroke treatment in New York City. He is the site director for national stroke clinical trials and is actively involved in medical student, resident, and fellow teaching for which he has won multiple teaching awards."