Brooklyn, NY, May 22, 2025 – The Jaffe Comprehensive Stroke Center at Maimonides, Maimonides Neurosciences Institute, and SUNY Downstate Health Sciences University Department of Neurology hosted the 5th Annual Brooklyn Stroke Symposium at Maimonides Medical Center on Thursday, May 15, with more than 850 health professionals registered to attend the event.
Each year, the symposium features exciting topics on clinical paradigms of the diagnosis and management of acute ischemic and hemorrhagic stroke with new cutting-edge research. This year’s topics centered around major themes including multidisciplinary stroke care management, rare and atypical stroke causes, and individualized stroke care for populations like women, children, and migraineurs.
Clinically focused sessions throughout the symposium were led by experts in stroke care, neurosurgery, and cardiovascular medicine from Maimonides, SUNY Downstate, and other world-renowned institutions and health care systems, including Columbia University, Johns Hopkins University, NYU Langone Health, NYC Health + Hospitals, and Henry Ford Health.
“Stroke care as a field has been advancing in leaps and bounds recently, with new, effective treatments emerging all the time,” said Q. Tony Wang, MD, PhD, Director, Jaffe Comprehensive Stroke Center, and Vice Chair and Associate Professor of Clinical Neurology, SUNY Downstate Health Sciences University. “This year’s symposium breaks down new paradigms for clinicians, focusing on stroke diagnosis and management for understudied populations such as women and children, strokes with rare or unknown underlying causes, and other key areas facing our field. Our stroke program here at Maimonides has grown greatly alongside this symposium over the past five years, incorporating many collaborative disciplines that have been central to elevated, individualized care for every patient. We are proud to continue sharing these advances and bolstering the level of care available for stroke patients across the region.”
Maimonides established Brooklyn’s first primary stroke unit in 2004. In 2017, it was designated as a Comprehensive Stroke Center by The Joint Commission, offering the highest level of all-around 24/7 stroke care, and has been successfully re-certified as a Comprehensive Stroke Center since then. Last year, Maimonides Midwood Community Hospital was designated as a Primary Stroke Center by The Joint Commission for the first time. The Jaffe Stroke Center has earned the American Heart Association’s (AHA) Get With The Guidelines Stroke Gold Plus Honor Roll designation for quality performance and outcomes for 16 years in a row. The AHA also named Maimonides to its Target: Stroke Advanced Therapy, Stroke Elite Plus, and Target Diabetes Honor Roll awards, recognizing exemplary treatment time efficiencies for stroke patients, and the most up-to-date, evidence-based care for patients with type 2 diabetes who are hospitalized with heart failure, heart attack or stroke. From 2022 to 2025, U.S. News and World Report ranked Maimonides as a “Best Regional Hospital” and “High Performing for Stroke Care.”
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Maimonides Health is Brooklyn’s largest healthcare system, serving over 320,000 patients each year through the system’s 3 hospitals, 1,800+ physicians and more than 80 community-based practices and outpatient centers. The system is anchored by Maimonides Medical Center, one of the nation’s largest independent teaching hospitals and home to centers of excellence in numerous specialties and Maimonides Midwood Community Hospital (formerly New York Community Hospital), a 130-bed adult medical-surgical hospital; and Maimonides Children’s Hospital, Brooklyn’s only children’s hospital and only pediatric trauma center.
Maimonides’ clinical programs rank among the best in the country for patient outcomes, including its Heart and Vascular Institute, Neurosciences Institute, Bone and Joint Center, and Cancer Center. Maimonides is an affiliate of Northwell Health and a major clinical training site for SUNY Downstate College of Medicine. For additional information, please visit www.maimo.org and follow us on LinkedIn, X, Instagram, and Facebook, YouTube, and TikTok.