Professor of Emergency Medicine & Neurology
UCF HCA GME Consortium EM Residency Osceola Regional Medical Center
Kissimmee, Florida, United States
Dr. Ganti (Stead) is Professor of Neurology and Emergency Medicine at the University of Central Florida and Vice Chair for Research and Academic Affairs. She is one of the members of the inaugural class of the American Academy of Neurology’s Women Leaders in Neurology program.
Dr. Ganti is a prolific writer. Her small book empire comprises over a dozen textbooks, including the best selling First Aid for the Clinical Clerkship series. Recently, she has started to write for a non-technical audience, as a first-time blogger for Neurology Now.
She has published extensively in neurologic emergencies, with high impact. Her Google scholar citations reveal an H index of 28, with more than 2,600 citations to her work just in the last few years and over 460 published manuscripts and abstracts, focusing on her areas of research, acute stroke and traumatic brain injury. Her early work on hypotension in the setting of hyperacute ischemic stroke was instrumental in changing our thinking of BP and stroke as being a U-shaped rather than J-shaped curve, and referenced in all the stroke guidelines. Similarly, her work in mild TBI demonstrated that there is nothing “mild” about mild TBI. Her dedication to the field of neurologic emergencies was has been recognized by the Mayo Clinic Lifetime Achievement Award for Outstanding Contributions in EM Research, and the Toral Family Foundation Endowed Professorship in Traumatic Brain injury. Dr. Ganti has won over 18 national awards, and is a Fulbright Scholar.
I do not have any relevant financial / non-financial relationships with any proprietary interests.