Stephan A. Mayer, MD, FCCM, FNCS is Director of Neurocritical Care and Emergency Neurology Services for Westchester Medical Center Health System and Professor of Neurology and Neurosurgery at New York Medical College, both in Valhalla, NY. He earned his medical degree from Cornell University Medical College in New York City, and has previously served as Professor at Columbia University Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons, NY, the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, NY, and Wayne State University School of Medicine in Detroit, MI. His interests include the emergency and critical care management of stroke, status epilepticus, cardiac arrest, and traumatic brain injury.