Anand Viswanathan, MD, PhD

Anand Viswanathan heads up both the Acute and Sub Acute Tele Stroke services at Mass General Brigham. He serves as a staff neurologist in the Stroke Service and Memory Disorders Unit at Massachusetts General Hospital, and he is Associate Professor of Neurology at Harvard Medical School.

Dr. Viswanathan earned his MD and PhD in medicine and molecular genetics from Emory University. He completed internal medicine training at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center and a neurology residency and vascular neurology fellowship at MGH and Brigham and Women’s Hospital. From 2005 to 2006, he was a clinical research fellow at Hôpital Lariboisière in Paris under Professors Marie-Germaine Bousser and Hugues Chabriat, with whom he continues to collaborate. 

His research interests include apolipoprotein E (e2 and e4), cerebral amyloid angiopathy, CADASIL, intracranial hemorrhages, leukoencephalopathies, and gait and cognitive disorders, particularly their contributions to dementia. As an executive member of the Massachusetts Alzheimer’s Disease Research Center (MADRC) and based at the MGH Kistler Stroke Research Center, he focuses on the role of stroke and vascular risk factors in cognitive decline and dementia.