Staff

Stephanie Kemp
Program Manager

Stephanie Kemp is the Program Manager for the Stanford Stroke Center. She joined the Stroke Center in 1993 and has extensive experience in regulatory management and FDA guidelines. She oversees the administrative and research staff as well as all clinical trials performed at the Stroke Center.

Didem Aksoy
Research Associate

Didem joined the Stroke Center in the summer of 2008. She holds a BS degree in Electrical Engineering and MS degree in Biomedical Engineering. She is currently involved in the studies investigating the process of brain edema and secondary injury following intracerebral hemorrhage.

Stephanie Casal, RN, MS, CNS
Research Coordinator

Stephanie Casal, an expert in clinical trial administration and enrollment, joined the Stroke Center in 2011.  Her clinical focus is in Neurocritical Care.

Irina Eyngorn
Clinical Research Coordinator

Irina Eyngorn joined the Stanford Stroke Center in 2001. She coordinates several ongoing clinical trials at the Stroke Center. Currently, she is involved in studies predicting outcome in comatose survivors after cardiac arrest, using MRI and biomarkers, and assessing the utility of diffusion- and perfusion-weighted MRI and Xenon CT perfusion for the evaluation of acute stroke patients.

Madelleine Garcia
Clinical Research Coordinator

Madelleine Garcia is a Clinical Research Coordinator at the Stanford Stroke Center. She has been with the Stroke Center since 1998. She oversees secondary stroke prevention trials and maintains the stroke database which includes all patients seen by the Stroke Center.

Manabu Inoue, MD
Research Associate

A vascular neurologist from Japan, Dr. Inoue joined the Stroke Center in 2011.  His research efforts are focused on the use of advanced MR and CT imaging techniques to identify salvageable tissue in stroke patients.

Ami Okada, PhD
Research Associate  

Dr Okada is an experienced neuroscientist who joined the Stroke Center in 2011.  She is involved in the organization and coordination of neurocritical care research.

Ryan Snider
Clinical Research Coordinator

Ryan Snider joined the Stroke Center in the summer of 2007 from Boston, where he attended Harvard University and spent 3 years at Massachusetts General Hospital studying intracerebral hemorrhage, the most fatal and disabling form of stroke. After completing his work on the clinical trial of a drug designed to stop bleeding in the brain, Ryan returned to his native Bay Area to coordinate several acute studies for the Stanford team.

His interest in novel therapeutic interventions for ischemic and hemorrhagic stroke victims drew him to work on the DASH and MISTIE studies, the logistics of which he currently coordinates. Ryan hopes to further his pursuit of integrative approaches in stroke treatment and prevention locally during medical school.

Demi Thai
Clinical Research Coordinator

Following a one-year research internship with the Surgery department at Stanford, Demi Thai joined the Stanford Stroke Center in the summer of 2007 with a growing enthusiasm for neurological science. Since then, her main role has been coordinating clinical trials relating to acute intracerebral hemorrhage and the treatment of hypertension in patients following ischemic stroke.

Haihong Nguyen
Administrative Associate

Haihong Nguyen has been with the Stanford Stroke Center since January 2007. She provides administrative support to Dr. Christine Wijman, Director of the Stanford Neurocritical Care Program, and Drs. Neil Schwartz and Anna Finley Caulfield.

Evelyn Ray
Administrative Associate

Evelyn Ray is an Administrative Associate, providing support to Dr. Gregory Albers, Director of the Stanford Stroke Center, and Drs. Maarten Lansberg and Chitra Venkatasubramanian. She has been at the Stroke Center since March 2003 and has been employed through the Stanford Hospital and Stanford University for 18 years.