Area of Expertise: Neurology
Cheryl D. Bushnell, MD, MHS
Director of the Wake Forest Baptist Stroke Center
Education Associate Professor, Neurology
Dr. Bushnell is an expert on stroke and stroke prevention and has done groundbreaking research that looked at women who experience migraines during pregnancy. She is the lead author of the first guidelines for the prevention of stroke in women. The research was published in American Heart Association’s journal, Stroke.
She is researching sex differences in subclinical vascular disease in midlife, with a special emphasis on differences occurring with menopause. She is also the director of the Transition Coaching for Stroke (TRACS) Program, which seeks to improve the transition of stroke patients from the hospital to home.
Area of Expertise: Neuromuscular Diseases
Michael Cartwright, MD
Assistant Professor of Neurology
Cartwright is an NIH funded researcher who is exploring the use of neuromuscular ultrasound to diagnose and treat patients with focal neuropathies, including carpal tunnel syndrome and ulnar neuropathy. Wake Forest Baptist is one of a handful of institutions in the country offering the diagnostic service. Cartwright believes that use of neuromuscular ultrasound, in addition to the electrodiagnostic studies, will ultimately result in patients having better functional outcomes compared with those evaluated with traditional electrodiagnostic studies alone. Cartwright is working with Francis Walker, M.D., an international expert in neuromuscular ultrasound and a neurologist at Wake Forest Baptist. Focal neuropathies affect more than 300,000 individuals each year in the United States and medical costs exceed $500 million annually.