Brian Hoh, MD, MBA, FACS, FAHA, FAANS, is the James and Brigitte Marino Family Professor and Chair of the Lillian S. Wells Department of Neurosurgery at the University of Florida, where he also serves as Chief of Medical Staff for UF Health Shands. His clinical interest is cerebrovascular and endovascular neurosurgery and stroke.
He is an NIH-funded investigator with over 16 years of continuous NIH funding including multiple U01s and R01s as principal investigator. In 2021, 2023, and 2025, he was the #1 highest NIH-funded neurosurgery investigator according to Blue Ridge Institute for Medical Research. He has over 260 publications and an H-index of 74.
Dr. Hoh is a past President of the Congress of Neurological Surgeons, past Chair of the American Association of Neurological Surgeons/Congress of Neurological Surgeons Joint Cerebrovascular Section, and currently serves on the Board of Directors of the American Board of Neurological Surgery. He has served as co-chair of the Editorial Board of the Journal of Neurosurgery. He has been awarded the M. Gazi Yasargil Lecturer, the Byron Cone Pevehouse Award, and the Robert D. Florin Award by the American Association of Neurological Surgeons. In 2024, the University of Florida College of Medicine awarded him Outstanding Research Scientist Award in Clinical, Data, or Artificial Intelligence Science. He has received five teaching awards, a University of Florida Research Foundation Professorship, and a University of Florida Term Professorship from the University of Florida College of Medicine.
Dr. Hoh received his B.A.S. from Stanford University, his M.D. from Columbia University, and completed his neurosurgery residency and interventional neuroradiology fellowship at Massachusetts General Hospital. He received his M.B.A. from the University of Florida.
Marc Chimowitz, MBChB completed a Neurology residency at Tufts – New England Medical Center and a Stroke fellowship at the Cleveland Clinic. He has had faculty positions at the University of Michigan, Emory University, and the Medical University of South Carolina.
His main career interests are in improving treatments for patients with intracranial arterial atherosclerotic stenosis and helping to mentor the next generation of clinical and translational scientists.
He has led three large consecutive NIH / NINDS funded multicenter clinical studies over the past 15 years (the WASID trial, the NIH Wingspan Stent registry, and the Stenting and Aggressive Medical Management for Preventing Recurrent stroke in Intracranial Stenosis [SAMMPRIS] trial), which have led to new standards of care for the treatment of atherosclerotic intracranial arterial stenosis.
Additionally, he has extensive experience with mentoring trainees and junior faculty and has been the recipient of a NIH K24 award for this purpose.