Howard Riina, MD

Howard A. Riina, MD, MPhil, FACS, FAANS is Professor of Neurosurgery, Neurology and Radiology, Vice Chair of the Department of Neurosurgery, Associate Director of the Neurosurgery Residency Training Program and Director of the NYU Center for Stroke and Neurovascular Diseases at New York University Langone Health and the NYU School of Medicine. He received undergraduate degrees from both Franklin and Marshall College and the University of Pennsylvania. He graduated from Temple University School of Medicine. He also obtained an M.Phil in Neurobiology from the University of Cambridge.

He completed his surgical internship and trained in Neurological Surgery at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania under Eugene S. Flamm, MD and Sean Grady, MD. Dr. Riina has completed two fellowships: Endovascular Surgical Neuroradiology under Alejandro Berenstein, MD and Cerebrovascular and Skull Base Surgery under Robert F. Spetzler, MD. Dr. Riina is an internationally recognized expert in both the surgical and endovascular treatment of cerebrovascular disorders of the brain and spinal cord.