Thanh N Nguyen, professor of neurology, radiology and neurosurgery at the Boston University Chobanian and Avedisian School of Medicine in Boston, USA, has been elected president of the Society of Vascular and Interventional Neurology (SVIN). Nguyen is the first woman to serve in this role during the society’s 17-year history.
Previously, Nguyen was an elected board member of the SVIN in 2008 and was subsequently re-elected from 2014–2017. She was named a fellow of the SVIN (FSVIN) in 2012 based on her contributions to the field of interventional neurology, and received the organisation’s Distinguished Service Award in 2018. Nguyen was selected as research chair of the SVIN in 2013 and served as secretary from 2019–2021.
Nguyen—who is also the director of interventional neurology/neuroradiology at Boston Medical Center (BMC)—received her medical degree from the McGill University Faculty of Medicine in Montreal, Canada. She performed her neurology residency at Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH), and Brigham and Women’s Hospital (both Boston, USA).
Following her fellowship in vascular neurology and neurocritical care at MGH, she completed a fellowship in interventional neuroradiology (INR) involving more than 1,000 INR procedures at Centre Hospitalier de l’Université de Montréal (Montreal, Canada). She has since performed more than 3,000 INR procedures, including more than 500 brain aneurysm interventions and 400 acute stroke interventions.
Nguyen’s clinical and research interests include endovascular therapies for stroke, brain aneurysms, and arteriovenous diseases. Her other clinical interests include diagnostic and therapeutic treatment of pulsatile tinnitus; preoperative embolisation for head and neck tumours; carotid and intracranial stenting; subarachnoid haemorrhage (SAH); spinal vascular interventions; traumatic carotid and vertebral dissection; subdural haematoma embolisation; vertebroplasty, and kyphoplasty for acute spinal fractures.
She has authored more than 330 peer-reviewed publications and contributed to national guideline statements. She is principal investigator for the CLEAR (Computed tomography for late endovascular reperfusion) study, for which primary results are published in JAMA Neurology. Nguyen also co-led a global study to evaluate the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on stroke, mechanical thrombectomy, and SAH care.
She serves as associate editor of the journal Stroke and serves on the editorial board of the SVIN journal, Stroke: Vascular and Interventional Neurology, as well.
Nguyen was named a fellow of the American Heart Association (AHA) in 2018 and served on the AHA board of directors for the Boston area from 2018–2021. She was named Boston Magazine Top Doctor in Neurology from 2017–2023, and received the Be Exceptional Award for BMC in 2018 and the Neurology Golden Brain Attending Award for Boston University medical student teaching in 2019.
