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 6/1/2025

    Salim HA, Pulli B, Yedavalli V, Milhem F, Musmar B, Adeeb N, Lakhani DA, Essibayi MA, Heit JJ, Faizy TD, El Naamani K, Henninger N, Sundararajan SH, Kuhn AL, Khalife J, Ghozy S, Scarcia L, Yeo LL, Tan BY, Regenhardt RW, Cancelliere NM, Rouchaud A, Fiehler J, Sheth SA, Puri AS, Dyzmann C, Colasurdo M, Renieri L, Filipe JP, Harker P, Radu RA, Abdalkader M, Klein P, Marotta TR, Spears J, Ota T, Mowla A, Jabbour P, Biswas A, Clarençon F, Siegler JE, Nguyen TN, Varela R, Baker A, Altschul D, Gonzalez N, Möhlenbruch MA, Costalat V, Gory B, Stracke P, Hecker C, Marnat G, Shaikh H, Griessenauer CJ, Liebeskind DS, Pedicelli A, Alexandre AM, Tancredi I, Kalsoum E, Lubicz B, Patel AB, Mendes Pereira V, Wintermark M, Guenego A, Dmytriw AA. Endovascular therapy versus medical management in isolated anterior cerebral artery acute ischemic stroke: a multinational multicenter propensity score-weighted study. J Neurointerv Surg. 2025 Jun 01; 17(e2):e356-e364. PMID: 39613322.

    Read at: PubMed

  • Published 6/1/2025

    Nogueira RG, Bhatt N, Haussen DC, Moehlenbruch MA, Nguyen TN, Hu W. Endovascular treatment of distal arterial occlusions: a more distant reality than ever? Lancet Neurol. 2025 Jun; 24(6):478-480. PMID: 40409305.

    Read at: PubMed

  • Published 6/1/2025

    Mohammaden MH, Martins PN, Aboul-Nour H, Al-Bayati AR, Hassan AE, Tekle W, Fifi JT, Majidi S, Kuybu O, Gross BA, Lang M, Cortez GM, Hanel RA, Aghaebrahim A, Sauvageau E, Tarek MA, Farooqui M, Ortega-Gutierrez S, Zevallos CB, Galecio-Castillo M, Sheth SA, Nahhas M, Salazar-Marioni S, Nguyen TN, Abdalkader M, Klein P, Hafeez M, Kan P, Tanweer O, Khaldi A, Li H, Jumaa M, Zaidi SF, Oliver M, Salem MM, Burkhardt JK, Pukenas B, Vigilante N, Penckofer M, Siegler JE, Peng S, Alaraj A, Grossberg JA, Nogueira R, Haussen DC. Balloon-mounted versus self-expandable stent in failed neurothrombectomy: a post hoc analysis of the SAINT study. J Neurointerv Surg. 2025 Jun 01; 17(e2):e295-e302. PMID: 39884852.

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  • Published 6/1/2025

    Huang X, Sun D, Nguyen TN, Pan Y, Wang M, Abdalkader M, Zaidat OO, Ma N, Gao F, Mo D, Miao Z, Huo X, Zhou Z. Impact of first pass effect in endovascular treatment of large core stroke: a post-hoc analysis of the ANGEL-ASPECT trial. J Neurointerv Surg. 2025 Jun 01; 17(e2):e252-e260. PMID: 38914460.

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  • Published 6/1/2025

    Marei O, Podlasek A, Soo E, Butt W, Gory B, Nguyen TN, Appleton JP, Richard S, Rice H, de Villiers L, Carraro do Nascimento V, Domitrovic L, McConachie N, Lenthall R, Nair S, Malik L, Panesar J, Krishnan K, Bhogal P, Dineen RA, England TJ, Campbell BCV, Dhillon PS. Safety and efficacy of adjunctive intra-arterial antithrombotic therapy during endovascular thrombectomy for acute ischemic stroke: a systematic review and meta-analysis. J Neurointerv Surg. 2025 Jun 01; 17(e2):e237-e244. PMID: 38253378.

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Other Positions

  • Associate Professor, Radiology
    Boston University Chobanian & Avedisian School of Medicine

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Education

  • McGill University, MD
  • Marianopolis College, DEC

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