Education

• M.B.Ch.B. - San Marcos National University, School of Medicine, Lima, Peru, 1990
• M.D. - San Marcos National University, School of Medicine, Lima, Peru, 1990

Post-Graduate Training

• Intern - Hospital Almenara, 1989-1990
  San Marcos National University, Lima, Peru
• Resident - Neurosurgery, 1990-1992
  Hospital Almenara, Lima, Peru
• Resident - Neurosurgery, 1989-1992
  San Marcos National University, Lima, Peru
• Visiting Resident - Neurovascular Surgery, 1993
  University of Miami, Miami, FL
• Intern - Internal Medicine, 1996-1997
  Medical College of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA
• Resident - Neurology, 1997-2000
  University of Vermont, Burlington,VT
• Fellow - Cerebrovascular Disease and Neurological Critical Care, 2000-2001
  Thomas Jefferson University, Philadelphia, PA

Professional Experience

• Co-Director - Stroke and Neurological Critical Care Program, 2001-2002
  Medical College of Pennsylvania Hospital, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
• Director - Stroke Program, 2002-current
  University of Tennessee Health Science Center, Memphis, Tennessee
• Director - Neurological Critical Care Program, 2002-current
  University of Tennessee Health Science Center, Memphis, Tennessee
• Director - Headache Clinic, 2005-current
  University of Tennessee Health Science Center, Memphis, Tennessee

Professional Certification and Licensing

• Educational Commission for Foreign Medical Graduates, 1994
• Pennsylvania, 2000
• Tennessee, 2002
• American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology, Neurology, 2005

Clinical Subspecialty Expertise

Stroke, Vascular Neurology, Neurological Critical Care and Headache Medicine

Research Interests

My clinical research is focused on the study of stroke genetics, stroke epidemiology, secondary stroke prevention, cocaine-related stroke, thrombolytic therapy, spontaneous intracerebral hemorrhage outcome models, and migraine genetics.

Representative Publications

Giraldo EA, Rosell PA, Rocca UD. Enfermedad de moyamoya en el Peru. V Congreso Peruano de Neurocirugia, Noviembre 1991, Resumenes de Temas Libres, pag. 6 (Abstract)

Giraldo EA, Rosell PA, Rocca UD. Protocolo de manejo de hemorragia subaracnoidea por rotura de aneurisma cerebral. V Congreso Peruano de Neurocirugia, Noviembre 1991, Resumenes de Temas Libres, pp. 10-11 (Abstract)

Giraldo EA, Morris P, Hamill RW. Intra-arterial thrombolysis of supraclinoid internal carotid artery thrombus in a patient on anticoagulant therapy. Neurology 1998;50(suppl):A156 (Abstract)

Giraldo EA, Pendlebury WW. Spontaneous middle cerebral artery dissection: an unusual case of stroke. Annals of Neurology 1999;46(3):448 (Abstract)

Giraldo EA. Cuidados intensivos neurologicos de las hemorragias intracraneales primarias. XXX Congreso Latinoamericano de Neurocirugia, Octubre 2002, Lima,Peru, pag. 186 (Abstract)

Giraldo EA. Manejo Actual del paciente con desordenes cerebrovasculares isquemicos agudos. XXX Congreso Latinoamericano de Neurocirugia, Octubre 2002, Lima, Peru, pag. 188 (Abstract)

Giraldo EA, Daskalakis C, Jimenez MR, Provencio JJ, Bell RD. Predictive model of 30-day mortality after supra- and infra-tentorial spontaneous intracerebral hemorrhages. Annals of Neurology 2003;54(7):S25 (Abstract)

Giraldo EA. Chapter 174. Cerebrovascular Disease. In: Beers, MH, Berkow, R (ed): The Merck Manual of Diagnosis and Therapy, 18th Edition. Whitehouse Station: Merck Research Laboratories, 2006

Giraldo EA, Taqi MA, Pulsinelli WA. Recombinant tissue plasminogen activator (rtPA) for acute ischemic stroke in African Americans in Memphis (Submitted)

Giraldo EA, Taqi MA. "Crack" cocaine abuse-related stroke in African Americans (Submitted)

Giraldo EA, Li D. Case report: subarachnoid hemorrhage associated with factor VII deficiency (Submitted)

Giraldo EA, Tammaa M. External validation of a predictive model of 30-day mortality after supra- and infra-tentorial spontaneous intracerebral hemorrhages (In Progress)

Giraldo EA, Perez AS. Ischemic stroke management program to prevent vascular events [IMPROVE] (In Progress)

Giraldo EA, Pulsinelli WA, Ledoux MS. Systems genetics of stroke. (In Progress)

Giraldo EA, Petrinjac-Nenadic R, Menkes DL, Ledoux MS. Genetics of migraine. (In Progress)

Contact Us

Department of Neurology

415 Link Building
855 Monroe Avenue
Memphis, Tennessee 38163
Phone: (901) 448-6199
Fax: (901) 448-7440

David M. Stern, M.D.
Executive Dean

Tulio Bertorini, M.D.
Professor & Chairman
Tulio Bertorini