Acute Stroke Center
Staff
David Brock, MD
Assistant Professor of Neurology, Jefferson Medical College, and Medical Director of the Neurosensory Program/Neuro-Intensive
Care Unit at Thomas Jefferson University Hospital and the Jefferson Hospital for Neuroscience.
Dr. Brock, a Neurointensivist, comes to Jefferson from Pennsylvania Hospital, Philadelphia, where he was Medical Director
of the neurologic intensive care unit. Prior to that appointment, he was Assistant Professor of Clinical Neurology at the
University of Virginia School of Medicine.
Dr. Brock has been co-investigator of several clinical studies related to stroke, including the study of intra-arterial pro-urokinase
for acute strokes and National Institutes of Health t-PA stroke study. His other areas of expertise are in the management
of refractory seizures and the treatment of infections of the nervous system.
Dr. Brock has contributed to a number of professional journals and books including
Neurology, Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, and the
Atlas of Infectious Diseases. He is a member of the American Academy of Neurology, the American Epilepsy Society and the Society of Critical Care Medicine.
Dr. Brock received a doctor of medicine degree in 1988 from State University of New York, Buffalo, a master of science degree
in engineering in 1981 from the University of California, Los Angeles, and a bachelor of science degree in engineering in
1979 from Brown University, Providence, RI. From 1992 to 1993, he completed a critical care neurology fellowship, and from
1993 to 1994, served an EEG/epilepsy fellowship, both at the University of Virginia School of Medicine. Dr. Brock also completed
a neurology residency from 1989 to 1992 at the same school.
