Director, Neuro ICU and TCD Services
University of South Carolina School of Medicine-Greenville
Greenville, SC
Ryan Hakimi, DO, MS, NVS, RPNI, CPB, FNCS is the Director of the Neuro ICU and Transcranial Doppler Ultrasound Services at Prisma Health-Upstate in Greenville, South Carolina. He is an Associate Professor at the University of South Carolina-Greenville School of Medicine. Previously, he was the first neurointensivist in the state of Oklahoma and the founding Medical Director of the OU Medical Center Neurosciences Intensive Care Unit, where he served as an Associate Professor in the Department of Neurology at the University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center. He was also on faculty at the Oklahoma State University Center for Health Sciences. He was a United States Department of Energy Applied Health Physics Fellow, graduated from the Michigan State University College of Osteopathic Medicine, and completed his medicine internship and neurology residency at Michigan State University College of Osteopathic Medicine-Beaumont Hospital (Botsford). He completed a two-year fellowship in neurocritical care and stroke at Duke University Medical Center. He wrote the post-cardiac arrest hypothermia protocols for Durham County EMS (North Carolina) and later worked with the Oklahoma Office of the Medical Control Board to co-author the state’s post-cardiac arrest treatment protocol which was applied throughout the state. He is board certified in Neurology, Neurosonology (RPNI), a Neurovascular Specialist (NVS), and a Certified Professional Biller (CPB). He was the first fellowship trained DO neurointensivist and the first DO to be designated Fellow of Neurocritical Care Society. He received a Presidential Citation in 2014, 2017 and 2018, and 2020 from the Neurocritical Care Society and in 2017 from the Society of Critical Care Medicine. He also received the 2017 ASN Volunteer Member Award where he continues to serve as the Treasurer and the Co-Chair of the Certification Committee overseeing the NVS certification exam which he helped create.
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Thursday, April 21, 2022
9:00 AM – 9:45 AM US CST