Faculty Appointment
Chair of Neurology; Professor of Medical Education, Neurology
Education
MD, Major National University of San Marcos School of Medicine, Lima, Peru
Neurosurgery Residency, Major National University of San Marcos School of Medicine, Lima, Peru
Vascular Neurosurgery Visiting Fellowship, University of Miami School of Medicine, Miami, FL
Internal Medicine Internship, Medical College of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA
Neurology Residency, University of Vermont College of Medicine, Burlington, VT
Cerebrovascular Disease and Neurological Critical Care Fellowship, Thomas Jefferson University College of Medicine, Philadelphia, PA
MS (Master of Science in Epidemiology), University of Tennessee College of Graduate Health Sciences, Memphis, TN
Biography
Dr. Elias A. Giraldo is Professor and Chair of the Department of Neurology at California University of Science and Medicine School of Medicine. He is a critical care and vascular neurologist, medical educator and clinician-scientist. Dr. Giraldo created training programs, such as the vascular and interventional neurology fellowship program at the University of Tennessee, and the neurology residency program at the University of Central Florida, and clinical programs, such as the University of Tennessee stroke network, including four Joint Commission-certified stroke centers with two neurocritical care programs in teaching hospitals at the University of Tennessee and Drexel University, respectively. Working with medical students, residents and fellows while attending to patients has been personally important for Dr. Giraldo and has provided the most valuable ideas in research and clinical program development during his distinguished career. He was born in Lima, Peru where he completed his medical studies at Major National University of San Marcos (“Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos”). Dr. Giraldo received his MD in 1990. Following four years of neurosurgery residency in Lima, he completed a visiting fellowship in vascular neurosurgery at the University of Miami in 1993 where he spent two more years doing research in cerebrovascular disease and trauma. Dr. Giraldo completed his internship at Medical College of Pennsylvania Hospital and a neurology residency at the University of Vermont followed by a fellowship in cerebrovascular disease and neurological critical care at Thomas Jefferson University Hospital. After completion of his training, Dr. Giraldo was named Co-Director of the Stroke and Neurocritical Care Program at Medical College of Pennsylvania Hospital in Philadelphia from 2001 to 2002. He served as Assistant Professor and Director of Clinical Stroke and Neurocritical Care at the University of Tennessee Health Science Center in Memphis from 2002 to 2010 where he also completed a Master of Science in Epidemiology from 2006 to 2008. Dr. Giraldo worked as Assistant Professor at Mayo Clinic Division of Critical Care Neurology in Rochester from 2010 to 2011, and Associate Professor at Drexel University and Director of the Stroke and Neurocritical Care Programs at Hahnemann University Hospital from 2011 to 2015. Dr. Giraldo became a Professor of Neurology at the University of Central Florida in 2015 and was the inaugural Director of its Neurology Residency Program in Greater Orlando prior to moving to California University of Science and Medicine.
Research Interests
- Reperfusion treatment for acute ischemic stroke
- Stroke and neurocritical care outcomes research
- Stroke clinical trials
- Stroke epidemiology