ASCI / Young Physician-Scientist Awards, 2020
The Young Physician-Scientist Awards (YPSA) recognize physician-scientists who are early in their first faculty appointment and have made notable achievements in their research.
About the awardee
Guido Falcone, MD, ScD, MPH, is a Neurologist with subspecialty training in Neurocritical Care and Stroke, and an Epidemiologist with expertise in Population Genetics and Big Data. Dr. Falcone completed his clinical training in Neurology and Neurocritical Care at FLENI (Buenos Aires, Argentina) and the Massachusetts General Hospital (Boston, MA). In parallel to his clinical training, Dr. Falcone completed a Masters of Public Health and a Doctorate in Epidemiology at Harvard School of Public Health, the latter with minors in Epidemiology and Biostatistics. During his last year as a doctoral student, Dr. Falcone completed the SPOTRIAS (Specialized Programs of Translational Research in Acute Stroke) Fellowship, an NIH-sponsored training program specifically designed to equip physicians in training with a wide variety of analytical tools related to translational sciences and clinical research. The goal of Dr. Falcone’s research is to understand how common and rare genetic variation influences the risk, severity, evolution, and recurrence of stroke. He is also interested in understanding how genetic risk factors for cerebrovascular disease influence brain health, cognition and disability. This work is conducted within the construct of the International Stroke Genetics Consortium, where he serves as the Chair of the Intracerebral Hemorrhage Working Group, and is supported by grants from the Yale Pepper Older Americans Independence Center, NIH-NIA, NIH-NINDS, American Heart Association and Neurocritical Care Society. Dr. Falcone is the recipient of the Paul B. Beeson Emerging Leaders Career Development Award in Aging (K76).