Howard A. Riina, MD

Howard A. Riina, MD, MPhil, FACS, FAANS is the Director of Clinical Innovation at NYU Langone Health. Before this, he served as the Lucius N. Littauer Professor and Vice Chairman of the Department of Neurosurgery, Director of Endovascular Neurosurgery and Director of the NYU Center for Stroke and Neurovascular Diseases at New York University Langone Health and the NYU Grossman School of Medicine. He received undergraduate degrees from both Franklin and Marshall College and the University of Pennsylvania, and his medical degree 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. Dr. Riina has completed two fellowships: Endovascular Surgical Neuroradiology and Cerebrovascular and Skull Base Surgery as well as fellowship equivalent training in Diagnostic Neuroradiology. Dr Riina has been actively involved in national neurosurgery for many years, having served on the executive committee of the American Academy of Neurological Surgery as both scientific program chair and member-at-large, and as membership chair of the Society of Neurological Surgeons. He is the former Chair of CESAC (CNS Endovascular Surgery Advisory Committee to CAST). He is currently Associate Editor of the journal Neurosurgery and Secretary of the American Board of Neurological Surgery.