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Pooja Khatri appointed neurology chair at Yale School of Medicine
As chair, Khatri will oversee Yale’s Department of Neurology, which is recognized for its strengths in stroke, epilepsy, multiple sclerosis, neurodegenerative diseases, and more.
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Neurologist Pooja Khatri. / yale.edu
Indian American neurologist and stroke expert has been appointed as the new Chair of the Department of Neurology at Yale School of Medicine, effective April 1, 2025. She will also serve as chief of neurology at Yale New Haven Hospital and Yale New Haven Health System.
In her new role, Dr. Khatri will lead Yale’s Department of Neurology in its mission to deliver cutting-edge patient care, drive transformative research, and train the next generation of neurologists. She is also expected to collaborate with Yale’s broader healthcare network to expand access to advanced neurological care for patients.
Khatri joins Yale from the University of Cincinnati (UC), where she served as a professor of neurology and rehabilitation medicine and vice chair of research within the Department of Neurology and Rehabilitation Medicine in addition to being associate director for clinical research of the Stroke Center of Excellence at the UC Gardner Neuroscience Institute.
As an internationally recognized expert in clinical stroke, Khatri's pioneering work in stroke intervention and acute neurological care particularly her contributions to the understanding and application of clot-retrieval therapies and other innovative treatments has been widely quoted and earned her a place among the top one percent of Highly Cited Researchers in the World announced by Clarivate.
In addition to her research achievements, Khatri has received recognition for her training and mentorship through various teaching awards, such as the UC Provost Faculty-to-Faculty Research Mentoring Award and the Middle East & North Africa Stroke Organization (MENASO) Education Award. She recently taught at a stroke summer school that included a World Health Organization (WHO) delegation of physicians from low- and middle-income countries in Asia.
Khatri has served in leadership positions on the Executive Committee of the World Stroke Organization (WSO), the Stroke Council of the American Heart Association (AHA), and the Guidelines Board of the European Stroke Organisation (ESO). Additionally, she is a member of the American Academy of Neurology and the Society for Clinical Trials.
She has a bachelor of science with honors in biological sciences from Stanford University and a medical degree with honors from University of Illinois at Chicago. She completed an internship and neurology residency at University of Pennsylvania and a vascular neurology fellowship at University of Cincinnati through the NIH Specialized Program of Translational Research in Acute Stroke. She also earned a master of science in clinical epidemiology from Harvard School of Public Health.
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