Luis Savastano, MD, PhD

Luis Savastano, MD, PhD, joined the Department of Neurological Surgery as an assistant professor in June 2022. He is a surgeon-scientist, inventor, and entrepreneur focused on cerebrovascular neurosurgery and solving unmet clinical needs by translational research and development of new technologies. He is a “hybrid” cerebrovascular neurosurgeon, specializing in the microsurgical and endovascular treatment of ischemic and hemorrhagic stroke.

Before joining the UCSF faculty, Savastano was an assistant professor of neurosurgery and radiology at the Mayo Clinic Rochester, MN. He obtained his MD, PhD from Cuyo National University School of Medicine in Argentina and completed a neurosurgery residency and neurointerventional radiology fellowship at the University of Michigan.