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University of Miami

Ralph Sacco, MD, MS Principal Investigator

Ralph Sacco

Dr. Sacco’s research interests are in stroke epidemiology, treatment, diagnosis, prevention and genetics. He has been actively involved in the leadership of several multicenter randomized phase 3 clinical trials including WARSS, GAIN, and ProFESS. For the past 20 years, he has been the PI of the Northern Manhattan Study, an NIH-funded community-based, epidemiologic study designed to determine stroke incidence, risk factors, and prognosis in an elderly, multi-ethnic, urban population living in northern Manhattan in New York City.