UCSF Neurovascular Service at Moffitt Hospital

The UCSF Neurovascular Service was founded in 1994 to bring state-of-the-art medical care to patients with stroke, aneurysm, and other blood vessel conditions of the brain. The Neurovascular Service is housed at Moffitt Hospital, the UCSF University Hospital Medical Center.

Key divisions of the UCSF Neurovascular Service include:

• 16 bed Neuroscience Intensive Care Unit
• Outpatient specialty clinic for stroke and other conditions
• 2 Year Neurocritical Care Fellowship Training Program

Hospitalized Patient Evaluation and Treatment

We accept approximately 600 patients for inpatient (hospitalized) treatment each year. We accept hospitalized patients in transfer from other San Francisco hospitals, other regions within Northern California, and also from neighboring States including Hawaii. Nearly half of our hospitalized patients have subarachnoid hemorrhage caused by a bleeding cerebral aneurysm. With our multidisciplinary team of neurointensivists, house staff, fellows, vascular technologists and specialty nurses we primarily manage the complicated neurocritical care of these patients. Patients with aneurysm are treated both by endovascular method (coil embolization for example) and by standard neurosurgical technique (clipping) individualized to the patient.

Outpatient Evaluation and Treatment

We see 1200 outpatients per year providing specialty evlaution of patients with stroke, transient ischmic attack (TIA), aneurysm, arteriovenous malformation (AVM), cavernous angioma and other vascular malformations. Many of our consultations are with patients who have been seen by referring neurologists for second opinion, and many are patients referred by their own primary physicians for evaluation.

Our physicians are among the most highly trained in the world:

• Five Neurointensivists- Board Certified Neurologists with fellowship training in neurocritical care. These doctors focus on resuscitating the brain with expertise not only in brain physiology but also critical care medicine. No other academic program in the United States has as many Neurointesivists in one facility.
• Three-four fellows training to become neurointensivists
• UCSF Neurology Residents- post MD physicians training to become neurologists
• Clinical Nurse Specialist in neurocritical care and stroke

Moffitt Hospital is one of the highest ranked hospitals in America according to US News and World Report where we ranked 6th overall in the nation for neurology and neurosurgery. And, the UC Medical Center is attached to UCSF, one of the most renowned research facities for neuroscience.