Imoigele Aisiku Named Chair of Emergency Medicine at RSOM

Nationally recognized neurocritical care expert is also a leader in telemedicine and academic diversity, equity and inclusion

Imoigele (Imo) Aisiku, MD, new chair of Emergency Medicine at Stony Brook Renaissance School of Medicine.

Imoigele (Imo) Aisiku, MD, MSCR, MBA, FACCP, has been named chair of the Department of Emergency Medicine at the Renaissance School of Medicine (RSOM) at Stony Brook University.

Appointed by Peter Igarashi, MD, Knapp Dean of the RSOM, Aisiku is a physician scientist, pioneer and national leader whose area of focus is on critical care and neurocritical care within emergency medicine. His appointment begins on August 15.

Aisiku comes to Stony Brook after more than a decade at Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston, Massachusetts and Harvard Medical School. There he served as vice chair of the Division of Emergency Critical Care, as well as an associate professor, vice chair for diversity and equity, co-director of the Brigham Critical Care Research Consortium (BCCRC), and the founder and director of the Office of IDEaS (Inclusion, Diversity, Equity and Social Justice) in Emergency Medicine.

In 2021, Aisiku was honored as an endowed Distinguished Chair in Health Equity and Diversity by the President of Brigham and Women's Hospital, making him the second endowed chairholder in the Emergency department.

Additionally, Aisiku is the founder and CEO of iDoc Telehealth Solutions, a telemedicine company focused on critical and neurocritical care and tele-stroke services, and a co-founder of TiTAN EHR, an accompanying electronic medical records solution.

"We are thrilled that Dr. Aisiku will lead Stony Brook's remarkable team of emergency physicians. As a pioneering physician scientist in neurocritical care, and as an emergency medicine scholar and researcher, Dr. Aisiku will help advance our capacity to save lives and care for critically ill patients in the years to come," said Igarashi.

Upon earning his MD at UMass Chan Medical School, Aisiku completed his Emergency Medicine residency and Critical Care fellowship at Emory University in Atlanta. While at Emory, he earned two master's degrees in clinical research and business administration. In 2008, he was recognized by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) as a sickle cell research scholar.

In 2011, while Director of Neurocritical Care at Memorial Hermann-Texas Medical Center's Mischer Neuroscience Institute, Aisiku was part of the team that saved the life of then-Arizona Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords, who had been critically wounded by a gunman.

Aisiku is a member of the Neurocritical Care Society, the Society for Academic Emergency Medicine, the American College of Chest Physicians, the Society of Critical Care Medicine, the Society of Academic Emergency Physicians and the Student National Medical Association.

He has published more than 75 articles, reviews and chapters, and has received research support from the NIH, the Department of Defense and within industry. Aisiku is also responsible for developing one of the first ACGME-accredited internal medicine/emergency medicine/critical care fellowship programs, and he co-founded the Brigham Critical Care Research Consortium (BCCRC), a collaboration between emergency critical care and pulmonary critical care medicine to conduct clinical critical care trials.

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