Latisha K. Sharma, MD

Dr. Sharma is a Professor of Neurology at UCLA and the Walter Brutsch Endowed Chair. Dr. Sharma holds program appointments as Director of the UCLA Health Comprehensive Stroke and Vascular Neurology Center, Director of UCLA Stroke Center Medical Quality and Director of the UCLA TeleStroke Program. She is a Fellow of the American Heart Association. She is a past recipient of the American Academy of Neurology Clinical Research Fellowship Award and the American Heart Association Bugher Foundation Award. Dr. Sharma’s clinical interests include cerebrovascular disease, stroke, simulation medicine, pediatric stroke, stroke in young adult, stroke in women, telestroke and stroke prevention