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Associate Professor
Yale University
New Haven, Connecticut, United States
Dr. Wira is board certified in Internal and Emergency Medicine with specialization in Stroke and Emergency Critical Care. He provides clinical care in the Yale Department of Emergency Medicine (DEM) and also for the Division of Vascular Neurology in the Department of Neurology. He has been appointed to the national Emergency Neurovascular Care Committee for the AHA/ASA, and elected as Chair of The NorthEast Cerebrovascular Consortium—a regional branch of the AHA/ASA striving to improve stroke-systems of care in the Northeast. He contributed towards revising the national Society of Academic Emergency Medicine (SAEM) policy statement on thrombolytic therapy, is a part of a senior writing group at SAEM publishing recommendations and producing state-of-the-art didactic sessions at national SAEM conferences regarding advanced stroke therapies, and served as a faculty contributor towards the creation of two new SAEM interest groups: the Emergency Medicine/Critical Care Medicine interest group and the Sex and Gender in Emergency Medicine interest group. Dr. Wira also has extensive involvement in state-wide stroke initiatives, having been formally appointed in 2014 by Senate Majority Leader Senator Martin M. Looney to the Connecticut Department of Health Stroke Task Force evaluating Stroke Systems of Care in Connecticut. In September 2015 he was appointed as Chair of this Task Force by the Commissioner of Public Health Dr. Jewel Mullen and oversaw a series of recommendations by state leaders given to Senator Terry Gerrantana, Chair of the Public Health Committee of the Connecticut General Assembly.