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Excited to join the incredible team McMaster Neurosurgery Hamilton Health Sciences as a full-time Assistant Professor in Neurosurgical Oncology this fall! Profoundly grateful to UP PGH Neurosurgery, DCNS Calgary, University of Toronto Neurosurgery, and Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health for the outstanding surgical & research training!

My first editorial JNIS is out: bit.ly/44gGQtI Have a look and let me know your thoughts! Do we need perfusion imaging prior to performing endovascular thrombectomy in any time window? Neurovascular Center @ St. Michael's Hospital Canadian Interventional Neuro Group

BAF fuels groundbreaking research! We are proud to fund 17 projects on brain aneurysms. 16 yrs, $5M, 159 projects later, we're committed to reducing the prevalence and impact of brain aneurysms. Join us at our Annual Day of Engagement bafound.org/news/brain-ane…

Exciting news! This January, I'll be joining UToronto Neurology Neurovascular Center @ St. Michael's Hospital as an Assistant Professor/Clinician Investigator in Neurointervention and Stroke Neurology. Grateful to PGH Department of Neurosciences INR CHUM Montreal Neurovascular Center @ St. Michael's Hospital HEI for the amazing training! 🇵🇭🧠 Onwards and upwards! 🚀

Had a wonderful time at the Cleveland Clinic skull base course in Florida. The perfect event to mark the (almost) half way mark of the most wonderful fellowship with these incredibly talented surgeons and mentors. Pablo Recinos varunkshettry RajSindwaniMD Troy Donovan Woodard MD

📢Hot off the press! 🧠Non-contrast CT vs Perfusion imaging in the late window for large vessel ischemic stroke-- Give our paper a read: bit.ly/3S41Tgh Buddy Omar Thanh Nguyen 🇺🇦 Mohammed Almekhlafi Vitor Mendes Pereira Tom Marotta Katha Ignacio Neurovascular Center @ St. Michael's Hospital McMaster Neurosurgery

Hot of the press! Our CULVO study protocol: bit.ly/481FxRs Planning a reliability study? We outline our study's stringent methodology in this publication. Anass Benomar, MD MSc FRCPC Buddy Omar Vitor Mendes Pereira Tom Marotta Canadian Interventional Neuro Group Excited to share the actual results soon!

INR Fellowship BFFs turned Temerty Medicine Assistant Professors are taking over San Francisco🌟 Shoutout to Carmen Parra-Fariñas for being my ride or die since 2019! 🥰 #bffgoals #academicadventures Neurovascular Center @ St. Michael's Hospital alums 🥳 Tom Marotta faves 😬

New from JNIS: bit.ly/48Ko4xe Canadian Stroke Consortium Canadian Interventional Neuro Group 🇨🇦CULVO study shows: 1) 1 in 5 decisions for late-window EVT will change with perfusion imaging vs without 2) Reliability of EVT decisions with or without perfusion imaging is not significantly different

🧠 Do you have aneurysmal subarachnoid hemorrhage patients who remain debilitated with long-term neuropsychiatric outcomes despite successful aneurysm treatment and "good" functional outcomes? New review from Dr. DiestroKE Neurovascular Center @ St. Michael's Hospital bit.ly/3xCGq6w Brain Aneurysm Foundation

Hot off the press 📣JNIS, our study used the target trial approach to emulate the landmark ISAT with big data. Results suggest coiling may reduce risk of hydrocephalus vs clipping in aneurysmal #SAH. McMaster Neurosurgery University of Toronto Neurosurgery Neurovascular Center @ St. Michael's Hospital bit.ly/4c3ybiO

Neurovascular Center @ St. Michael's Hospital End of year party for our outgoing fellows Aruma ARU OSHA Kevin Kevin JANOT Zamir Zamir Merali Onwards and upwards! 🚀 Tom Marotta Vitor Mendes Pereira What a FUN night!!!

Dr. DiestroKE talking about treatment modalities more likely to result in shunt dependent hydro and mortality in patients with aneurysmal SAH #SNIS2024 @SNISInfo ESMINT Society CV Section Felipe C. Albuquerque @cruzcerebri Matthew Amans Andrew Ducruet Matt Fusco Dorothea Altschul MD FAHA FSVIN

🧠 Presenting work with Buddy Omar McMaster Neurosurgery Neurovascular Center @ St. Michael's Hospital Large database study showing lower risk of shunt dependent hydrocephalus in the endovascular arm vs open surgery for ruptured intracranial aneurysms. Published JNIS bit.ly/3zSvXFb

Dr. Dr. DiestroKE, vascular neurologist at St. Michael’s Hospital, shares expert advice on #stroke prevention during a Q&A on MCBN Radio.🎥 Watch here: youtube.com/watch?v=uCOyrX… #StrokeAwareness #StrokePrevention

Staff physicians Vitor Mendes Pereira in 🇫🇷 presenting and Dr. DiestroKE in 🇨🇦 performing two live cases for #LINNC2025 Nicole Cancelliere Tom Marotta LINNC online 🧠 See you again next year!

Pleased to share our work with Buddy Omar of McMaster Neurosurgery Neurology Journal: In Ontario, patients with glioblastoma from the most deprived neighborhoods had worse survival and were less likely to receive adjuvant treatment—despite universal health care. bit.ly/3FSvgPl

Our new study done on 7,000+ #glioblastoma patients in Ontario found that where you live can impact survival —despite universal healthcare system. bit.ly/3FSvgPl More work needed to improve #HealthEquity in cancer care. David Gomez Anna Dare Dr. DiestroKE