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 18-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 is co-PI of the SUMMIT MAX and PICASSO randomized trials. She serves on the steering committee / or as co-author on multiple acute ischemic stroke clinical trials, hemorrhagic stroke, including trials related to endovascular therapy, neuroprotection, adjuvant pharmacotherapy, and novel devices.

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 authored more than 600 peer-reviewed publications including acute stroke clinical trials published in NEJM, Lancet, JAMA, Neurology, and Stroke. She 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 2017-24, 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 2/11/2026

    Guo ZN, Abuduxukuer R, Wang C, Qu Y, Zhang P, Zhao JF, Hu XF, Ju DS, Hao T, Wen CM, Liu YF, Zhou Y, Li HY, Zhang J, Yuan ZM, Min J, Qiu X, Li ZD, Jia Y, Zhang WB, Song XG, Xu JX, Chen HS, Zhang JL, Wang LP, Guan HJ, Tan XL, Jiang P, Zhao YL, Yu ZJ, Jin H, Sun X, Wang DL, Nguyen TN, Yang Y. Remote ischaemic conditioning improves outcomes of ischaemic stroke treated by endovascular thrombectomy: the SERIC-EVT trial. Eur Heart J. 2026 Feb 11; 47(6):734-742. PMID: 40796242.

    Read at: PubMed

  • Published 1/29/2026

    Rodriguez-Calienes A, Yavagal DR, Asdaghi N, Olivé Gadea M, Diana F, Kaesmacher J, Mujanovic A, Geyik S, Senadim S, Cervo A, Salcuni A, Piano M, Moreu M, López-Frías A, Hassan AE, Miller S, Zapata-Arriaza E, de Albóniga-Chindurza A, Bergui M, Molinaro S, Sousa JA, Gomes FS, Sargento-Freitas J, Alexandre AM, Pedicelli A, Hofmeister J, Machi P, Scarcia L, Kalsoum E, Amorim J, Meira T, Ortega-Gutierrez S, Cruz-Criollo L, Renieri L, Capasso F, Romano DG, Bárcena-Ruiz E, Seoane D, Abdalkader M, Klein P, Nguyen TN, Perry da Câmara C, Fragata IR, Rodríguez Castro J, Vega P, Ozdemir AO, Uysal Kocabas Z, Smajda S, Al Salman SA, Khalife J, Jovin TG, Biraschi F, Richetti F, Castro P, Albuquerque L, Siddiqui AH, Jaikumar V, Navia P, Ntoulias N, Psychogios MN, Velo M, Zamarro J, De Paco G, Ashouri Y, AlMajali M, Arenillas JF, Sierra-Gomez A, Romoli M, Marto JP, Yaghi S, Ribo M, Tomasello A, Requena M. Rescue versus First-Line Intracranial Stenting during Thrombectomy for Acute Ischemic Stroke: A Propensity-Weighted Analysis of the RESISTANT Registry. Stroke. 2026 Jan 29. PMID: 41608810.

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  • Published 1/28/2026

    Doheim MF, Mohammaden MH, Abdelhamid H, Olive-Gadea M, Rodrigo-Gisbert M, Requena M, Fifi JT, Siegler JE, Ortega-Gutierrez S, Abdalkader M, Alaraj A, Hu W, Nguyen TN, Haussen DC, Nogueira RG. Individualized Treatment in Distal and Medium Vessel Occlusion Stroke Using a Validated Explainable Counterfactual Treatment Estimation Model. Ann Neurol. 2026 Jan 28. PMID: 41603297.

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  • Published 1/26/2026

    Leys D, Nguyen TN. More Pragmatic, Randomized Clinical Trials Are Needed to Improve Quality of Evidence in Stroke Guidelines. Stroke. 2026 Feb; 57(2):391-393. PMID: 41587286.

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  • Published 1/22/2026

    Chen Y, Lee KS, Siow I, Dai Y, Xiao X, Garg A, Gopinathan A, Yang C, Tan BY, Jing M, Zin M, Teoh HL, Sia CH, Feng M, Ma J, Chen L, Zhou S, Xu Z, Zhou Y, Lai Y, Peng W, He Y, Mofatteh M, Nguyen TN, Pan S, Yeo L. Success reperfusion remains a strong predictor of favourable outcome and reduced mortality in ischemic stroke patients with parenchymal haematoma post endovascular treatment: an international multi-centre cohort study. Neuroradiology. 2026 Jan 22. PMID: 41569416.

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Other Positions

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

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Education

  • McGill University, MD
  • Marianapolis Coll s/b Marianopolis College, DEC

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