Suffolk Reporter

Dr. Imoigele (Imo) Aisiku has been appointed as the Chair of the Department of Emergency Medicine at the Renaissance School of Medicine at Stony Brook University. The appointment, announced by Peter Igarashi, Knapp Dean of the RSOM, will take effect on August 15.

Dr. Aisiku joins Stony Brook after more than a decade at Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School, where he served in several roles including Vice Chair of the Division of Emergency Critical Care and Associate Professor. He was also Vice Chair for Diversity and Equity, Co-Director of the Brigham Critical Care Research Consortium (BCCRC), and Founder and Director of the Office of IDEaS in Emergency Medicine.

In 2021, Dr. Aisiku was recognized as an endowed Distinguished Chair in Health Equity and Diversity by Brigham and Women’s Hospital's President.

Dr. Aisiku is also involved in telemedicine as founder and CEO of iDoc Telehealth Solutions, which focuses on critical care services, including neurocritical care and tele-stroke services. He co-founded TiTAN EHR, an electronic medical records solution.

“We are thrilled that Dr. Aisiku will lead Stony Brook’s remarkable team of emergency physicians," said Dr. Igarashi. "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.”

Dr. Aisiku earned his MD at UMass Chan Medical School before completing his Emergency Medicine residency and Critical Care fellowship at Emory University in Atlanta, where he also obtained two master’s degrees in clinical research and business administration.

In 2011, while serving as Director of Neurocritical Care at Memorial Hermann-Texas Medical Center’s Mischer Neuroscience Institute, Dr. Aisiku was part of the team that saved then-Arizona Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords after she was critically wounded by a gunman.

Dr. Aisiku is affiliated with multiple professional organizations including the Neurocritical Care Society, Society for Academic Emergency Medicine, American College of Chest Physicians, Society of Critical Care Medicine, Society of Academic Emergency Physicians, and Student National Medical Association.

He has published over 75 articles and chapters supported by various institutions such as NIH and the Department of Defense. He developed one of the first accredited internal medicine/emergency medicine/critical care fellowship programs and co-founded BCCRC to conduct clinical trials within critical care medicine.

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