Ryan Hakimi, DO, MS, NVS, RPNI, CPB, FNCS, FCCM, FAAN - Vice President and Program Chair

Dr. Hakimi is a Neurointensivist and the Director of TCD Services at Prisma Health-Upstate’s Greenville Memorial Hospital in Greenville, South Carolina, the teaching hospital of the University of South Carolina-Greenville School of Medicine where he now serves as a Professor in the Department of Medicine (Neurology Division).  He is the past founding Neuro ICU Medical Director at Prisma Health and at the University of Oklahoma. He was also on faculty at the Oklahoma State University where he helped create the Neurology curriculum for Osteopathic Medical Students. 

He was a United States Department of Energy Applied Health Physics Fellow, graduated from the Michigan State University College of Osteopathic Medicine (MSUCOM), and completed his medicine internship and neurology residency at MSUCOM-Botsford Hospital. He completed a fellowship in neurocritical care and stroke at Duke University Medical Center.  

He is board certified in Neurology, Neurocritical Care, Neurosonology (RPNI), and as a Neurovascular Specialist (NVS). He has nearly 40 peer-reviewed publications and has served as an educator on a national level. He holds the Fellow designation from NCS, SCCM, and AAN.