Dileep Yavagal, M.D., chief of interventional neurology and professor of medical neurology and neurosurgery on the College of Miami Miller College of Medication, acquired two awards for his work to develop entry to mechanical thrombectomy in the US, inside India and all over the world.
Dr. Yavagal was awarded an honorary membership within the Indian Academy of Neurology at its annual assembly in Visakhapatnam, India, in October. The next month, he acquired the Neurointerventional Pioneering Award in the course of the Society of Vascular and Interventional Neurology (SVIN) annual assembly in San Diego.
“Getting these awards may be very humbling,” Dr. Yavagal mentioned. “The great factor is that they each acknowledge the identical work.”
Mechanical Thrombectomy for Stroke
Dr. Yavagal refers to Mission Thrombectomy, an initiative he pioneered to assist individuals experiencing a stroke brought on by giant vessel occlusion (LVO) entry. Emergency thrombectomy is a minimally invasive catheter surgical procedure that has dramatically improved stroke outcomes. Not everyone seems to be a candidate, however many individuals with these ischemic strokes arriving inside 24 hours of signs profit from removing of the clot inflicting the stroke, particularly these with an LVO.
Despite the fact that an estimated 80 to 85 p.c of strokes are ischemic, entry to mechanical thrombectomy varies broadly by area and nation. Australia leads the world. Forty-three p.c of Australians have entry to this life-saving process. In the US, the share drops to 32%, and in India, a dismal 1.4%. Total, mechanical thrombectomy is an possibility for fewer than 3% of the world’s inhabitants, in line with the MT-GLASS examine led by Dr. Yavagal.
Giving Again to India
The Indian Academy of Neurology recognition “is de facto such an incredible honor as a result of I left India in 1997 after finishing medical faculty and an inside drugs residency. It was not clear that I might contribute something substantial to my motherland as soon as I left,” Dr. Yavagal mentioned. “However due to my coaching within the U.S. and dealing with former Miller College professor and chair of neurology, Dr. Ralph Sacco, I may give again on to India.”
Dr. Yavagal additionally credit the collaborative surroundings on the Miller College and the shared acknowledgment that public well being initiatives can improve entry to essential medical care worldwide, together with in low- and middle-income international locations. Mission Thrombectomy has now expanded to greater than 90 international locations.
“I wasn’t planning on this. However the truth that it really labored out, and to the extent that the Indian Academy acknowledged that, was simply an unimaginable feeling,” Dr. Yavagal mentioned. “Extra sufferers get handled in India with stroke thrombectomy since this marketing campaign began, considerably extra 12 months after 12 months.”
The U.S.-based SVIN provides the Neurointerventional Pioneering Award yearly. In 2024, they acknowledged Dr. Yavagal and Mission Thrombectomy as a groundbreaking world initiative. In a letter saying the award, SVIN president Thanh Nguyen, M.D., cited Dr. Yavagal’s management as founder and chair emeritus of Mission Thrombectomy, SVIN co-founder and SVIN previous president. She added that Dr. Yavagal has positively impacted SVIN’s advocacy, collaborations, communications and training.
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