Nikolaos I.H. Papamitsakis, M.D.
Area of Specialty: Stroke, Cerebrovascular Diseases
Professional Appointments: Attending Neurologist, JFK Medical Center, Edison, New Jersey; Director of Stroke Services, New Jersey Neuroscience Institute at the JFK Medical Center, Edison, New Jersey.
Academic Appointments: Assistant Professor of Neurology, Seton Hall University School of Graduate Medical Education, South Orange, New Jersey.
Graduate Education: Resident in Radiology, Venizeleion General Hospital, Herakleion, Crete, Greece,1994; Intern in Medicine, Maimonides Medical Center, Brooklyn, New York, 1994-1995; Resident in Neurology, Mount Sinai Medical Center, New York, New York, 1995-1998; Fellow in Stroke and Cerebrovascular Diseases, Oregon Health Sciences University, Portland, Oregon, 1998-1999; Fellow in Stroke and Cerebrovascular Diseases, Henry Ford Hospital, Detroit, Michigan, 1999-2000.
Medical School: University of Crete School of Medicine, Crete, Greece, 1991.
Specialty Board Certification: Board Certified in Neurology.
Research Interest: Acute stroke treatment, neuroimaging in
acute stroke, stroke prevention, transcranial doppler imaging.
Honors and Awards: Admitted to Medical School with Honors, as the student with the highest marks, Five Yearly Scholarships by the Greek State Scholarship Foundation, 1985-1990; Recipient of the Glaxo-Wellcome Scholarship for Distinguished Alumni of the University of Crete School of Medicine, 1996; Listed in Who's Who in Medicine and Healthcare 1999-2000 (2nd edition) and 2002-2003 (4th edition); Listed in Who's Who in America 2003 (57th edition).
Representative Publications:
Mitsias PD, Jacobs MA, Hammoud R, Pasnoor M, Santhakumar S, Papamitsakis
NIH, Soltanian-Zadeh H, Lu M, Chopp M, Patel SC: Multiparametric MRI
ISODATA Ischemic Stroke Analysis. Stroke. 33: 2839-2844, 2002.
Burneo JG, Papamitsakis NI, Mitsias PD: Cerebral ventricles are smaller in Hispanic than non Hispanic patients with Alzheimer's disease. Neurology. 56:139-40, 2001.
Burneo JG, Shatz R, Papamitsakis NI, Mitsias PD: Amusement Park Stroke. Neurology. 55: 564, 2000.