Demetrius Klee Lopes (born March 19, 1970) is a

cerebrovascular Cerebrovascular disease includes a variety of medical conditions that affect the blood vessels of the brain and the cerebral circulation. Arteries supplying oxygen and nutrients to the brain are often damaged or deformed in these disorders. Th ...

neurosurgeon Neurosurgery or neurological surgery, known in common parlance as brain surgery, is the medical specialty that focuses on the surgical treatment or rehabilitation of disorders which affect any portion of the nervous system including the brain, ...

specializing in neuroendovascular therapy. At

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, he serves as medical director of the cerebrovascular and neuroendovascular program and is co-director of their stroke program. Lopes is a guest faculty member of

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Cerebrovascular and Skull Base Symposium at

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. Lopes is the founder of nonprofit Cure4Stroke Foundation, editor in chief of "Neurovascular Exchange" educational website and serves on the organizing committee of the annual World Live Neurovascular Conference. Lopes' contributions to neurovascular surgery have improved safety and decreased the disabilities caused by stroke,

brain aneurysm An intracranial aneurysm, also known as a cerebral aneurysm, is a cerebrovascular disorder characterized by a localized dilation or ballooning of a blood vessel in the brain due to a weakness in the vessel wall. These aneurysms can occur in an ...

s and arterial malformations. He collaborated on major studies that defined the current indications for mechanical

thrombectomy Mechanical thrombectomy, or simply thrombectomy, is the removal of a blood clot (thrombus) from a blood vessel, often and especially endovascularly as an interventional radiology procedure called endovascular thrombectomy (EVT). It thus contr ...

for the treatment of acute stroke. In addition, Lopes had contributed significantly to the development of flow diversion treatment for

cerebral aneurysm An intracranial aneurysm, also known as a cerebral aneurysm, is a Cerebrovascular disease, cerebrovascular disorder characterized by a localized dilation or ballooning of a blood vessel in the brain due to a weakness in the vessel wall. These a ...

Early life and education

Born on March 19, 1970, Lopes lived in

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until 1993. He began his medical education in 1987 at

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. After completing his

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in 1993, he completed his residency and fellowship at

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Career

In 2001, Lopes joined

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. In May 2006, he was voted Chicago's "Dr. McDreamy" by the readers of the

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. In 2013, Lopes founded the nonprofit Cure4Stroke Foundation, which aims to raise stroke awareness and celebrate stroke survivors. In 2015, Lopes published articles confirming that the use of endovascular therapy for ischemic stroke improves patient outcomes. In 2015, along with

Elad Levy Elad I. Levy () is an American neurosurgeon who played a role in the development and testing of thrombectomy, which improved quality of life and survival of stroke patients. He has focused his career and research on developing evidence based med ...

, Lopes performed research resulting in paradigm shifts in the treatment of cerebrovascular diseases, including being the US Interventional Principal Investigator for the SWIFT PRIME trials. Lopes also conducted research on the efficacy and safety of endovascular

in 2018. In July 2018, Lopes joined Advocate Health Care as co-director of the stroke program. In 2019, Lopes published a preliminary study on usage of the pipeline embolization device to treat small to medium-sized intracranial aneurysms, and has also demonstrated its safety and efficacy for patients under 22 years old. Later that year, Lopes also published research results demonstrating the safety and efficacy of transvenous

embolization Embolization refers to the passage and lodging of an embolus within the bloodstream. It may be of natural origin ( pathological), in which sense it is also called embolism, for example a pulmonary embolism; or it may be artificially induced ...

for treating arteriovenous malformations. Lopes published another similar study in July 2020.

Selected publications

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References

External links

Demetrius Lopes profile at the World Live Neurovascular Conference

Cure4Stroke Foundation

Neurovascular Exchange

Advocate Aurora Health - Dr. Demetrius Lopes
{{DEFAULTSORT:Lopes, Demetrius Living people American neurosurgeons American neuroscientists American medical academics American medical researchers Rush University faculty Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul alumni University at Buffalo alumni Health professionals from Chicago 1970 births American people of Brazilian descent