Heit neurointerventional research lab

Dr. Heit is an Associate Professor of Radiology and, by courtesy, of Neurosurgery at Stanford University. He is the Chief of Neuroimaging and Neurointervention (interim) at Stanford University, the Director of Neuroradiology at the Stanford Stroke Center, and the Director of the Stanford Neurointerventional Surgery Fellowship at Stanford.

His interest in research was piqued as an undergraduate student at the University of Colorado at Boulder, where he was a member of Tom Cech's lab. He completed his MD and PhD degrees at Stanford University, an internal medicine internship at the Brigham and Women's Hospital, a radiology residency at Massachusetts General Hospital, and a neurointerventional radiology fellowship at Stanford. He has been an attending neurointerventional surgeon and physician scientist at Stanford since 2015.

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Dr. Zamarud completed her undergraduate education at Bannu Medical College, Khyber Medical University, Pakistan. She then worked serving underprivileged communities in remote vilages of northern Pakistan.  

In March 2022, Dr. Zamarud joined Stanford Neurosurgery department as a Visiting Instructor with Dr. Steve Chang's research group. She studied neuro-oncology, with a special emphasis on exploring the potential of Cyberknife stereotactic radiosurgery for various brain pathologies.

Dr. Zamarud was then recruited to the Heit Lab, where she is currently a postdoctoral fellow. She is studying venous outflow in patients with acute ischemic stroke and hemorrhagic stroke.

Dr. van Voorst received a BSc and MSc in Medicine from the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, an MSc in Information Studies: Track Data Science from the Universiteit van Amsterdam, and an MSc in Banking and Finance from the Universiteit Utrecht. He then obtained a PhD at the Amsterdam UMC, Universiteit van Amsterdam.

In his PhD studies, Dr. van Voorst focused on cost-effectiveness analyses and artificial intelligence in acute ischemic stroke imaging. In the Collaborations for New Treatments of Acute Stroke (CONTRAST) consortium, Dr. van Voorst was responsible for imaging data management and automated image analysis for several randomized clinical trials. In the Cost Effectiveness of CT Perfusion for Patients suffering from Acute Ischemic Stroke (CLEOPATRA) project, Dr. van Voorst was responsible for the model-based cost-effectiveness analyses.

Dr. van Voorst joined the Heit lab in September 2023. He received a Rubicon grant from the Dutch Scientific Council (NWO) for 24 months of postdoctoral training. Dr. van Voorst studies to possibilities of artificial intelligence-based artery and vein analyses in acute ischemic stroke imaging.

Jamie Kesten is a research assistant in the Heit Lab. She was born at Stanford Hospital and grew up in the area. She completed her undergraduate studies at Vassar College, where she majored in Neuroscience and French. At Vassar, she played on the volleyball team, served as a tour guide, and interned in the Department of Philosophy. After graduation, Jamie joined the Heit Lab, where her research is focused on the imaging and treatment of patients with acute ischemic stroke, neuroinflammation, artificial intelligence, and spine procedures. She is an aspiring physician, and she hopes to treat pediatric patients in the future.  

Dr. Bombardieri is and Assistant Professor in the Department of Anesthesiology at Stanford and a faculty research collaborator in the Heit Lab. She earned her medical degree from the University of Rome, La Sapienza, and completed her residency training and PhD at the University of Florence. Subsequently, she pursued fellowships in Regional Anesthesia and Acute Pain Medicine at the Hospital for Special Surgery in New York, followed by a Critical Care Medicine fellowship at the Free University of Brussels.

In the Heit Lab, her research centers on developing a neuroimaging perfusion score to detect of cerebral vasospasm and exploring minimally invasive techniques to treat patients suffering from vasospasm following aneurysmal subarachnoid hemorrhage.

Her ultimate goal is to utilize minimally invasive regional anesthetic techniques to enhance neurological outcomes in stroke patients.

Simon is a PGY - III neurosurgery resident at Stanford and a research associate in the Heit lab. He is training to become a dual trained open and endovascular neurosurgeon and will be a neurointerventional fellow at Stanford after completion of his surgical training. He completed his undergraduate studies at UCLA in Los Angeles where he earned a BA in political philosophy with a minor in neuroscience and remained at UCLA where he graduated from the David Geffen School of Medicine in 2021.

Simon is passionate about finding new ways to help patients recover from neurologic injury and his work in the Heit lab focuses on basic science and translational therapies for patients recovering from acute strokes. He is currently working to investigate the immunologic mechanism that could influence how patients recover after experiencing a stroke with the ultimate goal of developing neuro protective therapies that improve patient outcomes.

Dr. Guenego is a neurointerventional radiologist at Erasme Medical Center in Brussels, Belgium. He was previously a Research Fellow and Visiting Scholar at Stanford, both in the Stanford Stroke Center and in the Heit Lab. Dr. Guenego continues to work with Dr. Heit on research topics based in neurointerventional radiology.

Dr. Guenego completed his undergraduate degree at Toulouse University in France. His MD was also completed in France at Toulouse University Hospital, and Fondation Rothschild in Paris as well as at CHUV in Lausanne, Switzerland. Dr. Guenego then completed a Neurointerventional Surgery Fellowship in Brussels from 2020-2022. He now practices at the prestigious Erasme Medical Center while he completes his PhD at Brussels University that if focused on vasospasm and delayed cerebral ischemia after cerebral aneurysm rupture.

Dr. Guenego continues to study cerebrovascular disease and neurointerventional devices and techniques for the treatment of these diseases in collaboration with Dr. Heit. In addition, he has a strong interest in entrepreneurship and is working on scaling-up two health companies.