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3 Gates Circle
Buffalo, NY 14209
T: (716) 887-5200
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Dr. Hopkins
and his wife Bonnie

L. Nelson Hopkins, MD, FACS

Professor and Chairman of Neurosurgery
Professor of Radiology
Director, Toshiba Stroke Research Center
University at Buffalo Neurosurgery
State University of New York

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After completing his undergraduate studies at Rutgers University, Dr. Hopkins graduated cum laude from Albany Medical College. His post-graduate training included a surgical internship at Case Western Reserve, followed by neurology and neurosurgical training at the University at Buffalo.

Active in national neurosurgery, Dr. Hopkins has served on the Board of Directors of the American Association of Neurological Surgeons (AANS) and of the Executive Committee of the Stroke Council of the American Heart Association. He has served as scientific and annual meeting chairman for both the AANS and Congress of Neurological Surgeons, as chairman of the Joint Section on Cerebrovascular Surgery, and as president of the American Academy of Neurological Surgery. Dr. Hopkins is currently the principal investigator of several national clinical trials testing catheter-based technologies for the treatment of neurovascular diseases. He is the endovascular principal for the editorial board of Neurosurgery, and the author of numerous publications centered on the prevention and treatment of stroke.

Dr. Hopkins is an advocate of cross-specialty and multidisciplinary collaboration. He fostered the creation of the Toshiba Stroke Research Center--a facility that brings together physicists, chemists, aerospace engineers, neurosurgeons, cardiologists, and radiologists to study neurovascular circulation and develop innovative technologies and approaches for the diagnosis, treatment, and prevention of neurovascular diseases. A proponent of the global approach to revascularization for the improvement of outcomes for patients with vascular disease, Dr. Hopkins has served on the faculty of numerous national and international symposia, and each year hosts multidisciplinary seminars focused on assessing and managing complications associated with minimally invasive catheter-based interventions.

Dr. Hopkins and his wife Bonnie have three children and seven grandchildren and live in Buffalo, New York.