InspireMD, Inc. announced the appointment of Adnan Siddiqui, MD, PhD, FAANS, FACS, FAHA to the Company's Scientific Advisory Board. Dr. Siddiqui brings extensive knowledge and expertise to InspireMD as a neurovascular surgeon and clinical scientist focused on and dedicated to the comprehensive management of ischemic stroke and vascular diseases involving the brain and spinal cord. Dr. Adnan Siddiqui is Vice-Chairman and Professor of Neurosurgery at the State University of New York at Buffalo (UB).

He serves as Director of Neuroendovascular Research, Fellowship, and the Canon Stroke and Vascular Research Center at UB. He also serves as Director of Neurosurgical Stroke Service at Kaleida Health, and is the Chief Executive and Chief Medical Officer for the Jacobs Institute, a medical innovation center focused on accelerating device development in vascular medicine based in Buffalo, NY. Dr. Siddiqui recently served as Chair (2020-2021) of the Joint Section of Cerebrovascular Surgery of the American Association of Neurological Surgery (AANS) and Congress of Neurological Surgeons (CNS).

He has also served as the Secretary for the Society of NeuroInterventional Surgery (SNIS) (2020-2021). He has served on the Endovascular Task Force of AANS, and been on multiple scientific and educational committees of the AANS, CNS, SNIS, American Board of Neurological Surgery and the Society Neurological Surgeons. Dr. Siddiqui is a reviewer for Stroke, Neurosurgery, Journal of Neurosurgery and Journal of NeuroInterventional Surgery as well as for numerous other medical journals, and he has over 500 peer reviewed publications.

Dr. Siddiqui completed fellowship training in Interventional Neuroradiology, Cerebrovascular Surgery and Neurocritical Care at Thomas Jefferson University in Philadelphia. He completed his Neurosurgical residency at Upstate Medical University. He received his PhD in Neuroscience from the University of Rochester and his medical degree from Aga Khan University, Pakistan.