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Predicts large vessel occlusion (LVO) and severe stroke in patients with stroke symptoms.

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Benjamin Kummer, MD, is currently the inaugural Clinical Informatics fellow at New York Presbyterian Hospital, a joint program with Columbia University’s Department of Biomedical Informatics. A New York City native, Dr. Kummer earned a BA from the University of Pennsylvania before working for several years as a business systems analyst at Capital IQ, a financial technology firm. He received his MD from Drexel University College of Medicine in Philadelphia and completed residency training in neurology at the Neurological Institute of New York at Columbia University Medical Center, followed by a fellowship in stroke neurology at New York-Presbyterian Hospital/Weill-Cornell Medical Center.

Benjamin Kummer, MD

The Cincinnati Prehospital Stroke Severity Scale (CP-SSS) predicts large vessel occlusion (LVO) and severe stroke in patients with stroke symptoms.

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