Cathy Sila, MD

• Director, Stroke Center, Neurological Institute, University Hospitals
• Chair, Department of Neurology, UH Cleveland Medical Center
• Professor, CWRU School of Medicine
Gilbert W Humphrey Endowed Chair in Neurology
• Inaugural Distinguished Senior Attending Physician, University Hospitals

Cathy Sila MD, FAAN, FAHA is the Chair of the Department of Neurology at University Hospitals and Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine. She holds the Gilbert W Humphrey Endowed Chair in Neurology and was the first Distinguished Senior Attending Physician in Neurology at University Hospitals.  Dr. Sila previously served as the Vice Chair in the Department of Neurology for Clinical Activities & Quality and directs the University Hospitals System Stroke Program, which is recognized as a model of system integration for health care delivery.

Dr. Sila is a recognized expert in preventing and treating stroke, neurologic complications of heart disease, and defining outcomes for clinical trials. As the first woman to chair neurology at UH, her priorities include ensuring access to innovative, high-value care integrated throughout the health system, supporting the provider-patient relationship and experience, training the next generation through the many fellowships and one of the largest neurology residency programs in the country, and promoting research that improves the quality of life for patients with neurologic diseases.

Dr. Sila received undergraduate degrees in Chemistry and Zoology and graduated from Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine. She completed her Neurology residency at the Mayo Clinic, followed by Fellowship training in Cerebrovascular Research at the Cleveland Clinic. She has extensive clinical research and research administration and core lab experience for more than 100 clinical trials, data element developer for the FDA and NINDS, and expert panel advisor for emerging technologies and therapeutics.

Dr. Sila has received numerous honors, elected to AHA/ASA and AAN executive committees, and was appointed to national directorship and institutional leadership boards. She has received awards from the American Heart Association National Stroke Council, YWCA Women of Professional Excellence, and Crain's Cleveland Business Healthcare Hero. She is consistently named among America's Top Doctors by Castle-Connelly and is one of their Exceptional Women in Medicine.

Expertise

• Carotid Artery Disease
• Carotid Artery Dissection
• Cerebral Vasculitis
• Intracranial Stenosis
• Patent Foramen Ovale (PFO)
• Stroke
• Stroke in the Young
• Stroke Prevention
• Transient Ischemic Attack (TIA)
• Vascular Neurology
• Vertebral Artery Dissection