Pooja Khatri, MD

Dr. Khatri received her Bachelor of Science with honors in biological sciences from Stanford University and her medical degree with honors from the University of Illinois College of Medicine. After neurology training at the University of Pennsylvania, Dr. Khatri completed her vascular neurology fellowship through the National Institutes of Health (NIH) Specialized Program of Translational Research in Acute Stroke. She also completed a master’s degree in clinical epidemiology from the Harvard University School of Public Health.

A dedicated and highly experienced clinician, Dr. Khatri has more than 20 years of experience providing neurological care to patients at UC Medical Center and emergency stroke care to patients at hospitals throughout Greater Cincinnati. She is a recognized expert in clinical stroke, the research of stroke treatments and epidemiology, clinical trial design and implementation, and stroke systems of care. She has led several NIH and industry-funded international multicenter clinical studies in the acute, prevention and recovery fields of stroke and co-directs the National Coordinating Center of NIH StrokeNet, which facilitates NIH-funded multicenter trials in stroke. She also leads [MM1] two NIH-funded studies of population-based brain health and its role in predicting stroke recurrence and prevention.

Dr. Khatri has served as a member of FDA advisory panels, local institutional review boards (IRBs) and data safety and monitoring boards of several phase I, II and III clinical trials. She has authored more than 200 manuscripts in peer-reviewed journals, including national and international clinical guidelines, and is associate editor of the American Heart Association Stroke Journal. Dr. Khatri also serves as secretary on the executive committee of the World Stroke Organization.

Earlier in her career, Dr. Khatri was a recipient of the NIH Career Development Award and the American Health Association Robert G. Siekert Young Investigator Award. She was also awarded the Cincinnati Business Courier’s Forty Under 40 Award and is frequently recognized as a “Top Doctor in Cincinnati” by Cincinnati Magazine.