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Nishant K. Mishra, MD, PhD, FRCP, FESO, FAHA, is a stroke neurologist at Yale University School of Medicine's main hospital in New Haven and the Stroke Director at the West Haven Veteran Affairs Medical Center. He enjoys serving veterans and making a meaningful contribution to their lives. Dr. Mishra enrolled in Government Medical College/ Maharashtra University of Health Sciences in July 1999. He finished medical school in 2003 and his internship in January 2005. Dr. Mishra's journey in stroke medicine started in 2005 at the Lilavati Hospital and Research Center, Bandra, Mumbai, where he found Praful M Dalal, MD, and Shirish M Hastak, MD, as his mentors, who introduced him to the art of clinical neurology, particularly vascular neurology. Dr. Dalal would tell him how he extracted tissue plasminogen activator from blood during his time at Oxford, studied the vascular anatomy by injecting...

Dr. Misra is a Postdoctoral Associate in the Department of Neurology at Yale University School of Medicine. He is a clinical researcher with an avid interest in biomarker discovery and outcomes research in neurological disorders. He is serving as a member of the COVID-19 global forum in the Brain Health Unit of the World Health Organization. He is also the Guest Editor at Frontiers in Neurology, where he is leading a research collection on omics-based approaches in stroke research. His long-term goal is to become an independent investigator and build a career in clinical biomarker discovery and data sciences. Dr. Misra obtained his Ph.D. in Neurology from the All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi, India. His thesis was aimed at determining diagnostic and prognostic biomarkers of stroke using high-throughput proteomics and machine learning approaches. He received the...