- Stroke
- Transient ischemic attack
Christopher Favilla, MD
About me
- Associate Professor of Neurology at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania
My education and training
- Medical School: University of Florida
- Residency: University of Pennsylvania Health System
- Fellowship: University of Pennsylvania Health System
Spoken languages
Reviews
89 reviews
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Locations
Penn Medicine hospital privileges
- Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania: Has privileges to treat patients in the hospital.
- Pennsylvania Hospital: Has privileges to treat patients in the hospital.
- Penn Presbyterian Medical Center: Has privileges to treat patients in the hospital.
- Lancaster General Hospital
- Chester County Hospital: Has privileges to treat patients in the hospital.
- Doylestown Hospital: On the medical staff, but does not have privileges to treat patients in the hospital.
- Princeton Medical Center: Has privileges to treat patients in the hospital.
Qualifications and experience
- Psychiatry & Neurology, Vascular Neurology
- Neurology, 2016
- American Heart Association, National
- Optica, International
- The Society for Vascular and Interventional Neurology, International
- World Stroke Organization, International
- Penn Stroke Program
Treatments and conditions
Research
Publications
Sarraj A, Thomalla G, Yoshimura S, Huo X, Costalat V, Zaidat OO, Arquizan C, Johns H, Yogendrakumar V, Churilov L, Pujara D, Sitton CW, Liebeskind DS, Inoue M, Majoie C, Beenen L, Abdulrazzak MA, Chaturvedi A, Singh S, Parsons MW, Denis A, Sakai N, Nguyen TN, Albucher JF, Kasab SA, Hassan AE, Abraham M, Rai A, Henon H, Sun D, Yamagami H, Subtil F, Bonekamp S, Uchida K, Yuan G, Gory B, Smith W, Ortega-Gutierrez S, Blackburn S, Sheth SA, Marnat G, Liu L, Shirakawa M, Fiehler J, Jensen M, Shindo S, Nogueira RG, Grandhi R, Jabbour P, Hussain MS, Dippel D, Wang Y, Yazawa Y, Simonsen CZ, Wang Y, Chen M, Hill MD, Grotta JC, Lapergue B, Jovin TG, Yoo AJ, Bendszus M, Campbell BCV, Morimoto T, Miao Z; ATLAS Investigators Endovascular thrombectomy for patients with large-core ischaemic stroke presenting up to 24 h after onset (ATLAS): a systematic review and individual patient data meta-analysis with central imaging adjudication , Lancet, 407(10543): 2026,2015-2026
Ghosh S, Dubow J, Favilla CG, Sutherland J, Kalmes A, Mock J, Chiu D, Clark WM, Ansari SA, Nicodemus-Johnson J, Anderson L, Liebeskind DS, Fisher M, McTaggart RA RNS60 RESCUE Trial in Acute Ischemic Stroke: Post Hoc Analysis in Participants Enrolled <12 Hours Since Last Known Well , Stroke Vasc Interv Neurol, 6(3): 2026,e002196
Broderick JP, Mistry EA, Wechsler PM, Elkind MSV, Liebeskind DS, Harston G, Wolenberg J, Frontera JA, Kimberly WT, Favilla CG, Boltze J, Ospel J, Samaniego EA, Adeoye O, Kasner SE, Schwamm LH, Albers GW; Stroke Treatment Academic Industry Roundtable XIII Participants Artificial Intelligence and Novel Trial Designs for Acute Ischemic Stroke: Opportunities and Challenges , Stroke, 57(1): 2026,265-274
Campbell BCV, Aziz YN, Harston GWJ, Adeoye O, Khatri P, Fischer U, Xiong Y, Alexandrov AV, Makris GC, Baron JC, Ng FC, Ter Schiphorst A, Nguyen TN, Ortega-Gutierrez S, Maier C, Liu L, Hill MD, Albers GW, Heit JJ; STAIR XIII Consortium Optimizing Reperfusion Trials: A Consensus Research Roadmap From the STAIR XIII Conference , Stroke, 57(2): 2026,514-525
Zuflacht J, Miller J, Ljungberg L, Little J, Zhou S, Messe S, Favilla C, Cucchiara B, Kasner SE Role of CT Perfusion Imaging in Patients With Minor Stroke: A Cohort Study , Neurohospitalist, online ahead of print: 2026
Wu AQ, Gitlevich R, Palepu C, Hoglund ZT, Sollenberger CH, Kahlon AS, Scott KW, Ehtiati T, Burkhardt JK, Catapano JS, Kandregula S, Favilla CG, Srinivasan VM Mapping real-time hemodynamic changes in venous sinus stenting using intraoperative transcranial Doppler ultrasonography and quantitative angiography , Neurosurg Focus, 60(1): 2026,E10
Favilla CG Clinical Applications of Optical Cerebral Blood Flow Imaging , Inside Scientific: 2026
Ghosh S, Dubow JS, Sutherland J, Smith W, Chiu D, Clark WM, Favilla CG, Ansari SA, Kalmes A, Mock J, Cook DJ, Madsen TE, Jayaraman M, Moldovan K, Torabi R, Liebeskind DS, Fisher M, McTaggart RA Randomized, Proof-of-Concept Trial (RESCUE) of RNS60 as an Adjunct Therapy in Acute Ischemic Stroke , Stroke, 56(9): 2025,2386-2397
Favilla CG, Mullen MT, Konecky S, McCardell T, McTaggart RA, Baird GL Pre-hospital LVO detection: One size does not fit all , J Stroke Cerebrovasc Dis, 34(7): 2025
Sarraj A, Blackburn S, Abraham MG, Hussain MS, Ortega-Gutierrez S, Chen M, Kasner SE, Churilov L, Sitton CW, Pujara DK, Sundararajan S, Hu YC, Herial NA, Budzik RF, Hicks WJ, Vora N, Arenillas JF, Alfonso ML, Ramos Araque ME, Tsai JP, Abdulrazzak MA, Kozak O, Yan B, Mitchell PJ, Cordato DJ, Manning NW, Cheung A, Hanel RA, Aghaebrahim AN, Wu TY, Portela PC, Merchán AJP, Gandhi CD, Al-Mufti F, Samaniego EA, Maali L, Qureshi A, Lechtenberg CG, Slavin S, Rosterman L, Gibson D, Wallace AN, Sahlein D, Pérez de la Ossa N, Hernández Pérez M, Schaafsma JD, Blasco J, Renú A, Sangha N, Warach S, Kleinig TJ, Mullen M, Elijovich L, Shaker F, Al-Shaibi FK, Johns H, Duncan KR, Opaskar A, Popovic MJ, Altose M, Ray A, Xiong W, Sunshine J, DeGeorgia M, Nguyen TN, Fifi JT, Tjoumakaris S, Jabbour P, Pereira VM, Lansberg MG, Albers GW, Sila C, Bambakidis N, Davis S, Wechsler L, Hill MD, Grotta JC, Ribo M, Hassan AE, Campbell BC; SELECT2 Investigators. General vs Nongeneral Anesthesia for Endovascular Thrombectomy in Patients With Large Core Strokes: A Prespecified Secondary Analysis of SELECT2 Trial. , Neurology, 105(2): 2025,e213819