About Dr. Houman Khosravani
Dr. Houman Khosravani is an Assistant Professor in the Division of Neurology, Department of Medicine, at the University of Toronto, and a staff stroke neurologist at Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre. As Medical Director of the inpatient stroke unit and a Clinician in Quality & Innovation, he works where bedside care, team performance, data, and system design meet.
Care built around minutes — and people
Dr. Khosravani’s clinical and quality-improvement work focuses on hyperacute and inpatient stroke care: shortening door-to-needle time, strengthening thrombectomy pathways, and building safer, more reliable neurovascular systems at comprehensive stroke centres.
That systems lens extends across the full arc of care — stroke resuscitation and simulation in the first minutes, antithrombotic and anticoagulation best practice through his work with Thrombosis Canada, and the routine integration of palliative care so that intensive treatment and compassionate, goal-concordant care advance together.
In neurocritical care, his interests include epilepsy and refractory status epilepticus and the use of EEG in traumatic brain injury. His scientific background in computational neuroscience and neuronal excitability continues to shape how he reads signals — from EEG and physiology to the human voice.
Current roles
- Assistant Professor, Division of Neurology, Department of Medicine, University of Toronto
- Staff Physician and Medical Director, Inpatient Stroke Unit, Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre
- Clinician in Quality & Innovation, focused on stroke care
The Stroke Innovation Lab
At Sunnybrook Research Institute, Toronto, Canada, Dr. Khosravani leads the Stroke Innovation—Machine Learning for Quality Improvement Lab (SiLab / ML4QI). The lab treats improvement as a measurable clinical intervention.
- Stroke resuscitation: crisis resource management, simulation, and the Protected Code Stroke framework for high-performing hyperacute teams.
- Machine learning for QI: datasets, bedside time series, and voice as a biomarker — Sonic Diagnosis and Project MASA.
- Compassionate stroke care: evidence and protocols for integrating palliative care into acute stroke treatment.
- Education: simulation-based and flipped-classroom learning, including Stroke FM and work with the Neurovascular Innovations CollaborativE (NICE).
The through-line is simple: better signals, better teams, better systems — and care that stays humane under pressure.