Jeffrey Saver, MD, works at the University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA), where he is medical director of the Stroke Unit at the UCLA Medical Center, an associate professor of neurology at the School of Medicine, and codirector of the Stroke Center. He has published more than 80 original articles, more than 15 book chapters, and two edited volumes. His research focuses on stroke prevention, acute stroke treatment, stroke diagnosis, and cognitive and behavioral consequences of stroke.
Saver is a fellow of the Stroke Council of the American Heart Association and the American Academy of Neurology. He received both his undergraduate and medical degrees from Harvard University and trained in internal medicine at Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston and in neurology at the Harvard-Longwood Neurological Training Program. Saver performed additional subspecialty fellowship training in cognitive neuroscience at the University of Iowa and in cerebrovascular disease at Brown University.