Dr. Jonathan Gomez

Dr. Rafael Llinas serves as the Director of Neurology at the Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center. His clinical interests include acute stroke treatments, neurovascular imaging and migraine as related to cerebrovascular disease. He also serves as the associate director of the neurology residency program. He was instrumental in establishing the Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center Stroke Center. In 2005, in recognition of the Stroke Centers organizational efforts in stroke care, the institution was granted certification as a Primary Stroke Center by the Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations. Dr. Llinas primary areas of research interests include diffusion-perfusion imaging of stroke, intravenous and intra-arterial thrombolysis for stroke, education of physicians and nurses in stroke identification and stroke care, stroke units and stroke centers. Dr. Rafael Llinas received his medical degree from the New York University School of Medicine. He completed a medical internship at the Boston City Hospital and was a neurology resident in the Harvard-Longwood neurology training program. Following his residency, he was a stroke and cerebrovascular disease fellow for two years at Beth Israel Hospital, Harvard University. Dr. Llinas is rated as a Distinguished provider by MediFind in Thrombectomy. His top areas of expertise are Stroke, Cerebral Amyloid Angiopathy, Siderosis, Thrombectomy, and Gastrostomy.

Laith Altaweel is an Intensive Care Medicine provider in Falls Church, Virginia. Dr. Altaweel is rated as an Advanced provider by MediFind in Thrombectomy. His top areas of expertise are Thrombectomy and Angioplasty. Dr. Altaweel is currently accepting new patients.

Ozan Akça, M.D., F.C.C.M., is a professor of anesthesiology in the Department of Anesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine at the Johns Hopkins University, and professor emeritus in the Department of Anesthesiology & Perioperative Medicine at the University of Louisville. Dr. Akça received his M.D. degree and completed anesthesiology and intensive care medicine trainings at the Istanbul University, Turkey. He then completed a clinical research fellowship at the Outcomes Research Institute of Department of Anesthesiology, University of Vienna, Austria. He was honored as a fellow of the American College of Critical Care Medicine (ACCM), co-founded the Neurosciences ICU & established the Stroke ICU services, and received federal funding from NIH and FAER during his tenure at the University of Louisville. Dr. Akça’s research interests are aligned with optimization of oxygenation & perfusion in perioperative management of surgical patients and in acute management of ischemic stroke. Dr. Akca is a member of IARS, ASA, SOCCA, SCCM, and NCC, and has served/serving in various committees within these societies as an academic critical care anesthesiologist. He received the top peer reviewer award from Publons. He was also named as a top peer reviewer by leading specialty journals such as Anesthesiology, and Anesthesia & Analgesia. He is serving in the editorial boards of Anesthesia & Analgesia and Journal of Clinical Anesthesia. Dr. Akca is rated as an Advanced provider by MediFind in Thrombectomy. His top areas of expertise are Thrombectomy and Endoscopy.