Advocate Health Care Welcomes Chicago Neurosurgeon, Demetrius Lopes, MD, to its Brain & Spine Institute
Advocate Health Care is pleased to welcome Demetrius Lopes, MD to the Advocate Brain & Spine Institute. Dr. Lopes will serve as Co-Director of the Stroke Program and Medical Director of the Cerebrovascular & Neuroendovascular Program.
He will practice with Advocate Medical Group primarily at Advocate Lutheran General Hospital in Park Ridge with privileges at other Advocate hospitals across the Chicago area.
Dr. Lopes is a board-certified neurosurgeon, highly skilled in neuroendovascular therapy, an innovative approach to treating brain and spinal cord diseases from inside the blood vessels. He specializes in the revascularization of the brain including the treatment of brain aneurysms, arteriovenous malformations, cerebral ischemia, stroke and the conditions leading to stroke. He has performed well over 1000 brain aneurysm repairs in his surgical career. Dr. Lopes has written more than 200 articles and chapters on various aspects of neurovascular intervention and has been the principal investigator in multiple trials that have helped to shape the field.
Dr. Lopes received his medical degree at Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul in Brazil, completed a surgical internship at the University of Illinois, neurology residency at Indiana University and neurological surgery residency and neurovascular fellowship at the State University of New York at Buffalo.
In addition to his clinical practice and research, Dr. Lopes is the founder of the Cure4Stroke Foundation, editor-in-chief of the Neurovascular Exchange and co-founder of the World Live Neurovascular Conference. He served for many years as Surgical Director of Interventional Services and the Comprehensive Stroke Center at Rush University Medical Center and is currently Professor of Neurosurgery at Rush Medical College.
For more information on Dr. Demetrius Lopes or the Advocate Brain and Spine Institute, call 844-376-3876 or visit advocatehealh.com.