General Info

Nandakumar Nagaraja, MD, is an assistant professor of neurology at the University of Florida College of Medicine. He received his medical degree from Kempegowda Institute of Medical Sciences in Bangalore, India. He moved to the United States to pursue his passion for neurology and neuroscience. He completed his masters degree in neuroscience at the College of Staten Island /City University of New York. He did his preliminary intern year at Brookdale Hospital Medical Center in New York, and then completed his neurology residency at Wayne State University School of Medicine in Detroit, where he earned a Resident of the Year award in his last year.Dr. Nagaraja completed his vascular neurology fellowship at National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke, National Institutes of Health. He was a Specialized Programs of Translational Research in Acute Stroke, or SPOTRIAS, stroke fellow at NINDS for two years. Before coming to UF, Dr. Nagaraja worked at the University of Iowa as a clinical assistant professor of neurology for three years. He was also a NIH StrokeNet Fellow for one year. Dr. Nagaraja has participated in several clinical trials in stroke since the time of starting his stroke fellowship. He has written blogs for the journal Stroke and authored several articles that are primarily focused on stroke. He has contributed as a stroke outcomes adjudicator for the studies funded by NHLBI and the FDA. He is board certified in neurology and vascular neurology. He is a member of the American Academy of Neurology, the American Heart Association and the American Stroke Association.