AJAY WAKHLOO


Ajay K. Wakhloo, MD, PhD, FAHA, FSNIS directed the Neurointerventional Radiology program at Beth Israel Lahey Health, Lahey Hospital & Medical Center (2018-2023) and is currently Professor at Tufts University School of Medicine, Boston, MA. He completed his school and entire medical education and residencies in Germany at the University of Mainz, Tubingen and Freiburg including a fellowship in interventional Neuroradiology (1977-1992). Dr. Wakhloo did neurovascular research at the BNI, Phoenix, AZ and an Endovascular Neurosurgery fellowship in the department of Neurosurgery at SUNY-Buffalo, NY (1992-1999). He was the Director for the Neuroendovascular Program at the University of Miami (1999-2004). Dr. Wakhloo moved then to Massachusetts and directed the Neuroendovascular Program and the New England Center for Stroke Research at the University of Massachusetts Medical School (2005-2018). He has been the principal investigator or co-investigator on numerous grants from the National Institutes of Health (NIH), private foundations and industry and has authored or co-authored over 300 peer-reviewed publications and book chapters on stroke treatment. Dr. Wakhloo pioneered the field of flow diversion (1989), the newest technology for the minimally invasive treatment of brain aneurysms and introduced the concept of a retrievable stent to remove an embolus for the treatment of stroke (2008).

He is recipient of multiple scientific awards and honors, among others Whitaker Bioengineering Research Foundation Award, German Society of Neuroradiology and Society of Vascular Interventional Neurology Innovation Award. In 2009, he was named a Fellow of the American Heart Association and the Stroke Council and in 2022 a Fellow of the Society for Neurointerventional Surgery. Dr. Wakhloo holds several US patents for neurovascular devices and is an honorary member of various medical societies. Throughout his career, he served in wide capacity on several national and international professional societies and was a member of the Medical Advisory Boards for several Pharmaceutical and Device companies and severed for some of them as CMO an CEO as well. Throughout his career, he has dedicated to teaching and mentoring faculty, fellows and residents from various disciplines as well as supervising doctoral students and serving as a research adviser to individuals throughout their research careers.