DavidJosephAltschulMD

Cerebrovascular Neurosurgery, Interventional Neuroradiology

Professor of Neurosurgery and Radiology, Associate Residency Program Director, Surgical Director of the Advanced Comprehensive Center for Stroke Care, Division Chief of Cerebrovascular Neurosurgery

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Office
3316 Rochambeau Ave.
Department of Neurosurgery
Bronx, NY 10467
Phone+1 718-920-7498

Fax+1 718-515-8235

Summary

I am a board-certified cerebrovascular neurosurgeon. Surgical director of our comprehensive stroke center and associate residency program director.

Education & Training

Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai (Morningside)Fellowship, Neurointerventional , 2013 - 2014
Montefiore Medical Center/Albert Einstein College of MedicineResidency, Neurological Surgery, 2007 - 2013
Albert Einstein College of Medicine/Montefiore (New Rochelle)Internship, Transitional Year, 2006 - 2007
State University of New York Downstate Medical Center College of MedicineClass of 2006

Certifications & Licensure

NY State Medical License 2011 - 2025
American Board of Neurological Surgery Neurological Surgery
American Board of Neurological Surgeons, American Board of Radiology, American Board of Psychiatry and NeurologyRecognized Focus Practice - CNS Endovascular Surgery
CASTCAST-Neuroendovascular Surgery

Awards, Honors, & Recognition

Member at large - Endovascular Neurosurgery Society of Neurointerventional Surgery, 2024
PLP Leadership Graduate Montefiore Health System, 2023
AOA AOA, 2006

Clinical Trials

International Subarachnoid Aneurysm Trial II Start of enrollment: 2012 Nov 12
Recruiting
Not Applicable
Minimally Invasive Surgery Plus Rt-PA for ICH Evacuation Phase III Start of enrollment: 2013 Dec 30
Completed
Phase 3
Understanding the Pathophysiology of Migraine Pain Start of enrollment: 2017 Jan 01
Recruiting
Not Applicable
ASSIST Registry Studying Various Operator Techniques Start of enrollment: 2019 Jan 23
Completed
Dual Antiplatelet Therapy Adherence With Reminder App Usage Start of enrollment: 2021 Oct 27
Recruiting
Not Applicable
Roles: Contact, Principal Investigator
Psychiatric Outcomes of Unruptured Intracranial Aneurysms (POUIA) Start of enrollment: 2023 Dec 01
Recruiting
Roles: Principal Investigator, Contact
Stroke Thrombectomy and Aneurysm Registry Start of enrollment: 2019 Sep 17
Recruiting
Roles: Contact, Principal Investigator
International Registry of Flow Diverter Stents Start of enrollment: 2023 Oct 01
Recruiting
Roles: Principal Investigator, Contact
Middle Meningeal Artery Embolization (MMAE) Outcomes for Chronic Subdural Hematoma (cSDH) Start of enrollment: 2023 Dec 05
Recruiting
Roles: Principal Investigator, Contact
INSPIRE Pipeline™ Shield Post Approval Study Start of enrollment: 2021 Dec 20
Recruiting
MicroVention, Inc. Flow Re-Direction Endoluminal Device X (FRED™ X™) Post-Approval Study Start of enrollment: 2022 Sep 20
Recruiting
Not Applicable
US Pilot Study of the CereVasc® eShunt® System in Normal Pressure Hydrocephalus Start of enrollment: 2022 Apr 20
Recruiting
Not Applicable
Prophylactic Antibiotics Useful With Antibiotic Impregnated External Ventricular Drains (EVDs)? Start of enrollment: 2021 Jun 14
Recruiting
Phase 1
Citadel Embolization Device Study Start of enrollment: 2019 Jul 17
Recruiting
Not Applicable
SEAL™IT: Saccular Endovascular Aneurysm Lattice System Interventional Pivotal Trial Start of enrollment: 2024 Jul 15
Not yet recruiting
Not Applicable
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Publications & Presentations

PubMed

4 citations
Outcomes of mechanical thrombectomy in anticoagulated patients with acute distal and medium vessel stroke.
Hamza Salim, Basel Musmar, Nimer Adeeb, Vivek Yedavalli, Dhairya Lakhani
European Stroke Journal. 2024-05-10
4 citations
Symptomatic intracerebral hemorrhage in proximal and distal medium middle cerebral artery occlusion patients treated with mechanical thrombectomy.
Vivek S Yedavalli, Hamza Adel Salim, Basel Musmar, Nimer Adeeb, Muhammed Amir Essibayi
Journal of Neurointerventional Surgery. 2024-07-24
2 citations
Pretreatment predictors of very poor clinical outcomes in medium vessel occlusion stroke patients treated with mechanical thrombectomy.
Vivek Yedavalli, Hamza Salim, Basel Musmar, Nimer Adeeb, Kareem El Naamani
International Journal of Stroke. 2024-08-19

Authored Content

Brain Aneurysm Awareness Month: New technologies and treatments let us find it and fix itOctober 2019

Press Mentions

Johanna T. Fifi, MD, Named President of the Society of NeuroInterventional Surgery (SNIS)August 14th, 2024
How COVID-19 Affects the Brain: What to Know if You’re Already Prone to Headache, Brain Fog, Fatigue, and Other Neurological IssuesFebruary 8th, 2021
Woman, 29, 'Lucky to Be Alive' After Doctors Mistake Ruptured Brain Aneurysm for MigraineJanuary 14th, 2021
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Grant Support

The Bee Foundation Research GrantThe Bee Foundation2023–2024
A multivariate predictive model for long-term disability post subarachnoid hemorrhage in Caucasian and African American populationsUniversity of Tennessee - Memphis2020–2021