Johanna T Fifi, MD
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PROFESSOR | Neurology
PROFESSOR | Neurosurgery
PROFESSOR | Diagnostic, Molecular and Interventional Radiology
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Specialties
Neurology, Neurosurgery, Radiology
Research Topics
Brain Imaging, Stroke

MD, Boston University School of Medicine

Internship, Internal Medicine, Thomas Jefferson University Hospital

Residency, Neurology, Thomas Jefferson University Hospital

Fellowship, Vascular Neurology, National Institutes of Health, NIH

Fellowship, Angiography and Interventional Radiology, MedStar Washington Hospital Center

Fellowship, Interventional Neuroradiology, Medstar Washington Hospital Center

Fellowship, Neuroradiology, Medstar Washington Hospital Center

Fellowship, Neuroradiology, Columbia University Neuroradiology Fellowship

Fellowship, Interventional Neuroradiology, Columbia University Neuroradiology Fellowship

Fellowship, Endovascular Neurosurgery, Mount Sinai West

Certifications

American Board of Neurological Surgery
American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology

2015

Top Doctors

2015

Super Doctors

Publications

Selected Publications

Safety and effectiveness assessment of the surpass evolve (SEASE): A post-market international multicenter study. Juan Vivanco-Suarez, Mahmoud Dibas, Demetrius Klee Lopes, Ricardo A. Hanel, Mario Martínez-Galdámez, Aaron Rodriguez-Calienes, Gustavo M. Cortez, Johanna T. Fifi, Alex Devarajan, Gabor Toth, Thomas Patterson, David Altschul, Vitor M. Pereira, Eileen Liu, Ajit S. Puri, Anna Luisa Kuhn, Waldo R. Guerrero, Priyank Khandelwal, Ivo Bach, Peter Kan, Gautam Edhayan, Curtis Given, Sandra Narayanan, Bradley A. Gross, Mudassir Farooqui, Milagros Galecio-Castillo, Shahram Derakhshani, Santiago Ortega-Gutierrez. Journal of NeuroInterventional Surgery

Sex-Based Differences in Endovascular Thrombectomy Outcomes for Large Ischemic Stroke: A SELECT2 Subanalysis. Jenny P. Tsai, Thanh N. Nguyen, Deep K. Pujara, Johanna T. Fifi, Sophia Sundararajan, Joanna D. Schaafsma, Natalia Pérez De La Ossa, Michael G. Abraham, Michael Chen, Muhammad S. Hussain, Santiago Ortega-Gutierrez, Hannah T. Johns, Kelsey R. Duncan, Leonid Churilov, Colleen G. Lechtenberg, Sabreena J. Slavin, Amanda Opaskar, Mercedes De Lera, Blanca Lara-Rodriguez, Helena Quesada, Lauren E. Fournier, Dana M. Defta, Faris Shaker, Clark W. Sitton, Anjail Z. Sharrief, James C. Grotta, Michael D. Hill, Marc Ribo, Ameer E. Hassan, Bruce C.V. Campbell, Cathy Sila, Stavropoula I. Tjoumakaris, Amrou Sarraj. Stroke

Endovascular Thrombectomy for Extracranial Internal Carotid Artery Occlusions With Large Ischemic Strokes. Santiago Ortega-Gutierrez, Aaron Rodriguez-Calienes, Deep Pujara, Clark Sitton, Milagros Galecio-Castillo, Ameer E. Hassan, Michael G. Abraham, Michael Chen, Spiros Blackburn, Scott E. Kasner, Heena Olalde, Malik Ghannam, Muhammad S. Hussain, Enrique C. Leira, Mario Martínez-Galdámez, Amir Shaban, Jenny P. Tsai, Hannah Roeder, Julie C. Gudenkauf, Ronald Budzik, Nirav Vora, Ricardo A. Hanel, Amin Aghaebrahim, Frances Colgan, Maria Angeles de Miquel, Chirag D. Gandhi, Fawaz Al-Mufti, Jordi Blasco, Luis San Román Manzanera, Nabeel A. Herial, Nathan W. Manning, Andrew Cheung, Osman Kozak, Bernard Yan, Peter J. Mitchell, Koji Ebersole, Gabor Toth, Michael Gooch, Daniel Gibson, Daniel H. Sahlein, Krishna Amuluru, Mohammad Ammar Abdulrazzak, Kelsey Duncan, Dana Defta, Faris Shaker, Faisal Al-Shaibi, Abhishek Ray, Jeffrey Sunshine, Yin C. Hu, Jan Karl Burkhardt, Osman Mir, Bader Alenzi, Tareq Kass-Hout, Rishi Gupta, Stavropoula I. Tjoumakaris, Pascal M. Jabbour, Thanh N. Nguyen, Johanna Therese Fifi, Vitor Mendes Pereira, Nicholas Bambakidis, Michael D. Hill, James C. Grotta, Marc Ribo, Bruce C.V. Campbell, Edgar A. Samaniego, Amrou Sarraj. Neurology

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Anterior Ethmoidal Fistula: Transvenous Balloon Assisted Approach

Physicians and scientists on the faculty of the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai often interact with pharmaceutical, device, biotechnology companies, and other outside entities to improve patient care, develop new therapies and achieve scientific breakthroughs. In order to promote an ethical and transparent environment for conducting research, providing clinical care and teaching, Mount Sinai requires that salaried faculty inform the School of their outside financial relationships.

Below are financial relationships with industry reported by Dr. Fifi during 2024 and/or 2025. Please note that this information may differ from information posted on corporate sites due to timing or classification differences.

Consulting or Other Professional Services Examples include, but are not limited to, committee participation, data safety monitoring board (DSMB) membership

  • Siemens Medical Solutions

Equity (Stock or stock options valued at greater than 5% ownership of a publicly traded company or equity of any value in a privately held company)

  • Radical

Mount Sinai's faculty policies relating to faculty collaboration with industry are posted on our website. Patients may wish to ask their physician about the activities they perform for companies.