Dr. Dileep R. Yavagal, MD is the Director of Interventional Neurology and Co-Director of Neuroendovascular Surgery at the University of Miami & Jackson Memorial Hospitals and Clinical Professor of Neurology and Neurosurgery. He completed his MBBS and MD in Internal Medicine at Seth G. S. Medical & King Edward Memorial Hospitals in Mumbai, India. He did his Neurology training at Harvard affiliated Massachusetts General and Brigham Women’s Hospitals followed by Neurocritical Care and Interventional Neuroradiology Fellowships at Columbia Presbyterian in NYC and UCLA respectively. He is the co-founder and Past-President of the Society for Vascular and Interventional Neurology (SVIN). Dr. Yavagal is an international thought leader in endovascular therapy for ischemic and hemorrhagic stroke as well as a pioneer in the translation of intra-arterial delivery of cell therapy for stroke. Dr. Yavagal co-led the first randomized controlled trial of Intra-arterial delivery of stem cells in ischemic stroke: RECOVER-Stroke. He has been on the steering committees of several landmark RCTs of mechanical thrombectomies including SWIFT-Prime and MR-RESCUE. Dr. Yavagal is the founder and Global Chair of the global Mission Thrombectomy 2020+ campaign to accelerate access to stroke thrombectomy globally.