Stroke Team
Shady Grove Adventist Hospital is a designated Primary Stroke Center, which means our multi-disciplinary stroke team – made up of an Emergency Department physician, a neurologist, the stroke program coordinator, a stroke nurse responder, a bedside nurse and a radiologist – is on-call 24 hours a day to identify stroke patients and begin treatment quickly to improve outcomes and minimize the chances of long-term disability. Once admitted, our patients are treated on a dedicated stroke unit staffed with specialized nurses, speech therapists, physical therapists and, if necessary, the nurse diabetes educator. We provide a system of care that follows nationally accepted guidelines, which ensure consistency among all of our patients.
Meet Our Stroke Program Coordinator
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Pavel Klein, M.D., M.B., B.Chir.
Stroke Program Medical Director
Dr. Klein began leading Shady Grove Adventist Hospital’s multidisciplinary stroke care team in 2012 and will continue to ensure the excellent outcomes Shady Grove has achieved as a designated Primary Stroke Center. Dr. Klein is the Director of the Mid-Atlantic Epilepsy and Sleep Center in Bethesda, as well as Adjunct Associate Professor of Neurology at George Washington University. Before founding the Center, Dr. Klein was an Instructor in Neurology at Harvard Medical School, and Director of the Epilepsy Program of the Clinical Neurophysiology Laboratory and of the Neuroendocrine Unit at the Georgetown University Hospital. He has a BA and MA in neuroscience from Oxford University. He earned his medical degree from Cambridge University.
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Margaret Dufour, BSN
Stroke Program Coordinator
Margaret has been with Shady Grove since 2007. She earned her BSN from Murray State University In Kentucky and is currently pursuing her certified neuroscience registered nurse (CNRN) certification in neurosciences. She has nearly a decade of critical care nursing experience. She is a member of the American Association of Critical Care Nursing, the American Association of Neuroscience Nursing, and Sigma Theta Tau (the Honor Society of Nursing).
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