Thanh N. Nguyen, MD FRCPc FSVIN FAHA

Professor, Boston University Chobanian & Avedisian School of Medicine

Biography

Thanh Nguyen, MD, FRCP, FSVIN, FAHA is the Director of Interventional Neurology/ Neuroradiology at Boston Medical Center (BMC) and Professor of Neurology, Neurosurgery and Radiology at Chobanian and Avedisian School of Medicine (BUSM). She is President of the Society of Vascular and Interventional Neurology (SVIN), the first woman in its 17-year history.

After receiving her medical degree from McGill University Faculty of Medicine in Canada, Dr. Nguyen performed her neurology residency at Massachusetts General Hospital and Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston. Following her fellowship in vascular neurology and neurocritical care at Massachusetts General Hospital, she completed a fellowship in interventional neuroradiology (INR) involving more than 1,000 INR procedures at Centre Hospitalier de l'Universite de Montreal with the internationally renowned experts Jean Raymond and others. She has now been involved in a total of more than 3,000 INR procedures, including more than 500 brain aneurysm interventions (coilings / flow diversion) and 400 acute stroke interventions.

Dr. Nguyen's clinical and research interests include acute endovascular therapies for stroke, brain aneurysm coiling and flow diversion. She is Principal Investigator of the CLEAR (CT for Late EndovasculAr Reperfusion) study, the primary results published in JAMA Neurology (2022) and Neurology (2024). She co-led a global study to evaluate the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on stroke, mechanical thrombectomy, subarachnoid hemorrhage and cerebral venous thrombosis care. She is co-PI of the SUMMIT MAX and PICASSO randomized trials.

Other clinical interests include neurocritical care, diagnostic and therapeutic treatment of pulsatile tinnitus, pre-operative embolization for head and neck tumors, carotid and intracranial stenting, subarachnoid hemorrhage, spinal vascular interventions, traumatic carotid and vertebral dissection, subdural hematoma embolization, vertebroplasty and kyphoplasty for acute spinal fractures.

Dr. Nguyen has authored more than 500 peer-reviewed publications and contributed to national guideline statements. She serves as Associate Editor of Stroke.

She was elected board member of the Society of Vascular and Interventional Neurology (SVIN) in 2008, re-elected 2014-2017, Research Chair of the SVIN in 2013, and Secretary of the SVIN in 2019-2021. She was awarded Fellow of the SVIN (FSVIN) in 2012 based on her contributions to the field of Interventional Neurology. She was awarded Fellow of the AHA (FAHA) in 2018.

She was awarded Boston Magazine Top Doctor in Neurology for 2017-23, Be Exceptional Award for Boston Medical Center in 2018, and SVIN Distinguished Service Award in 2018. She received the Neurology Golden Brain Attending Award for BU medical student teaching in 2019.

Publications

  • Published 5/12/2025

    Räty S, Strambo D, Gomez-Exposito A, Marto JPS, Ramos JN, Krebs S, Virtanen P, Ritvonen J, Abdalkader M, Klein P, Sairanen T, Sykora M, Lindsberg PJ, Poli S, Michel P, Nguyen TN, Strbian D. Intravenous Thrombolysis Versus Endovascular Thrombectomy in Acute Basilar Artery Occlusion - A Multicenter Cohort Study. Int J Stroke. 2025 May 12; 17474930251344451. PMID: 40356017.

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  • Published 5/9/2025

    Sun D, Guo X, Ling L, Jiao L, Nguyen TN, Abdalkader M, Pan Y, Wang M, Luo G, Jia B, Tong X, Ma N, Gao F, Mo D, Raynald, Huo X, Miao Z. Sex-Related Differences in Endovascular Treatment Outcomes for Acute Large Infarcts: The ANGEL-ASPECT Subanalysis. Stroke. 2025 May 09. PMID: 40340582.

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  • Published 5/7/2025

    Comby PO, Darsaut TE, Benomar A, Lecaros N, Alhazmi H, Weill A, Iancu D, Jabre R, Boisseau W, Benjamin M, Fahed R, Abdalkader M, Chow MMC, Stechishin O, Nguyen TN, Thouant P, Lemogne B, Bernard A, Chavent A, Lebeaupin F, Baptiste L, Lenfant M, Zhu F, Baharvahdat H, Gambino A, Shankar JJS, O'Kelly CJ, Kaderali Z, Darcourt J, Brunette-Clément T, Olijnik L, Roy D, Raymond J. Angiographic results of aneurysms treated with Woven EndoBridge (WEB) devices or coils: an inter- and intra-observer reliability study. Neuroradiology. 2025 May 07. PMID: 40332601.

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  • Published 5/3/2025

    Cirillo L, Abdalkader M, Klein P, Yedavalli VS, Siegler JE, Kang M, Shu L, Al Mufti F, Yaghi S, Ranta A, Nguyen TN. Thrombectomy Selection in the Large Core Era: Implications for Regional Transfers. Curr Neurol Neurosci Rep. 2025 May 03; 25(1):33. PMID: 40317401.

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  • Published 5/2/2025

    Mohammaden MH, Doheim MF, Dolia J, Abdelhamid H, Matsoukas S, Schuldt BR, Fifi JT, Kuybu O, Al-Bayati AR, Olive Gadea M, Rodrigo-Gisbert M, Requena M, Monteiro A, Siddiqui A, Ferreira F, Gamea A, Yu S, Siegler JE, Galecio-Castillo M, Cruz-Criollo L, Ortega-Gutierrez S, Cortez GM, Hanel RA, Hassan AE, Nguyen TN, Abdalkader M, Klein P, Salem MM, Burkhardt JK, Jankowitz B, Colasurdo M, Kan P, Hafeez M, Tanweer O, Peng S, Grossberg JA, Alaraj A, Nogueira RG, Haussen DC. Balloon guide catheter impact on angiographic and clinical outcomes in distal medium vessel occlusion stroke thrombectomy. J Neurointerv Surg. 2025 May 02. PMID: 40274405.

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