Virtual Neurology at Scale: Raj Narula and Melanie Winningham on How Sevaro Is Transforming Rural Stroke Care

About this episode

This episode discusses how Sevaro is transforming rural stroke care through telemedicine and AI technology.

Dr. Raj Narula is a vascular neurologist who walked away from a neurointerventional radiology fellowship to build something that could reach thousands of patients instead of one at a time. Dr. Melanie Winningham is a vascular neurologist, medical director of a comprehensive stroke center in Virginia, and VP of Clinical Strategy at Sevaro- someone who has lived the neurology access gap from both sides of it. In this episode of How I Doctor, Dr. Graham Walker sits down with Raj and Melanie to explore one of the most urgent and most invisible crises in American healthcare. What happens when a stroke patient lands in a rural ER at 2 AM and the nearest neurologist is a hundred miles away? For too long, geography has been the single biggest predictor of whether that patient walks out of the hospital. Sevaro was built to change that. This episode gets into what telestroke actually looks like when it's done right. They explain how Sevaro's AI-enabled platform — built by neurologists, for neurologists — puts a board-certified specialist on screen in 45 seconds, eliminates the call center entirely, and follows patients from the acute encounter all the way through rehab and outpatient care…

People in this episode

Host: Dr. Graham Walker

Guests: Dr. Raj Narula, Dr. Melanie Winningham

Topics covered

• telemedicine
• stroke care
• rural healthcare
• neurology
• AI in medicine

Keywords

• stroke care
• telemedicine
• neurology
• AI
• rural healthcare
• healthcare crisis

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Sevaro, Virginia

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