Sandra Narayanan, MD

Dr. Sandra Narayanan practiced for over a decade at Wayne State University School of Medicine, where she served as the Director of the Neuroendovascular Programs at Detroit Medical Center and Beaumont Hospitals-Dearborn/Taylor/Wayne/Trenton. She then moved to the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center in 2019 and was an Associate Professor in the departments of neurology and neurological surgery, staffing two busy Comprehensive Stroke Centers and telestroke/ward services and serving as the dedicated pediatric neurointerventionalist at Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh. She joined the Pacifi¬c Neuroscience Institute in August 2022 to direct the neurointerventional program and codirect the Comprehensive Stroke Center at Saint Joseph Providence Medical Center. She will also be part of the Providence Saint John’s Health Center neurointerventional team.

Dr. Narayanan is experienced in the clinical evaluation and care of acute stroke patients, intensive care monitoring of neurological and neurosurgical patients, and interpretation of noninvasive neuroimaging. She also specializes in minimally invasive neuroendovascular procedures such as mechanical thrombectomy for acute stroke, coiling and flow diversion of intracranial aneurysms, embolization of adult and pediatric cranial and spinal arteriovenous malformation, fistulas, and tumors.