About me
Amie Hsia, MD, is a board-certified vascular neurologist and medical director of the MedStar Washington Hospital Center Comprehensive Stroke Center, Professor of Neurology at Georgetown University Medical Center, principal investigator of the NIH Stroke Program at MedStar Washington, and co-principal investigator of the NIH-funded StrokeNet regional coordinating center - Stroke Capital Area Network for Research (SCANR).
Dr. Hsia received her undergraduate degree from Harvard University and her medical degree from Duke University. She completed her neurology residency at Stanford University, where she also served as chief resident. She remained at Stanford for her fellowship training in stroke and neurocritical care.
Born and raised in the D.C. metropolitan area, Dr. Hsia returned to Washington for the opportunity to provide advanced stroke care to area residents. Dr. Hsia serves as an advocate of the Greater Washington Region American Heart and Stroke Association to support governmental policies related to stroke care. She is a founding member and was the first physician chair of the D.C. Stroke Collaborative, working to improve the level of stroke care through collaboration among the D.C. hospitals and EMS. With the NIH Stroke Program, she works on developing and evaluating acute stroke treatments with advanced neuroimaging.
To extend efforts beyond the D.C. boundaries, she spearheaded the development of a stroke telemedicine network, to provide emergency expert stroke consultation for hospitals in the surrounding communities using this technology, and to expand patient access to the opportunity to participate in ongoing clinical trials of acute stroke therapies.
Research:
Area: Acute Stroke – Use of Multimodal MRI
Developing and evaluating the effects of acute stroke treatments using multimodal MRI to optimize patient selection, increase understanding of stroke pathophysiology, and predict and improve outcomes.
Area: Acute Stroke – Systems of Care
Improving stroke systems of care within individual hospitals and across a community/region. Advance science and disseminate knowledge in acute stroke care delivery.
Area: Acute Stroke – Racial Disparities in Stroke Care
Evaluating and reducing the barriers to acute stroke treatment in underserved urban communities.
Conditions and procedures
Procedures I perform
- Acute Stroke Care
- Stroke Care
- Stroke Diagnosis
- Stroke Imaging
- Stroke Management
- Stroke Neurology
Practice locations
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110 Irving St NW
Room 1A50B
Washington, DC, 20010
Insurance
MedStar Health accepts most major health insurance plans. If you are uncertain as to whether your individual health insurance plan is accepted at MedStar Health, please call your insurance company.
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List of insurance plans we accept
- Aetna Medicare Advantage HMO & PPO Plans
- CareFirst MedStar PPO
- MedStar Family Choice - Maryland Health Choice
- Humana Gold Plus HMO
- CareFirst Blue Card Program
- Priority Partners - Maryland Health Choice
- Erickson Advantage Plans
- IH-POS Plus
- POS OA
- United Healthcare Select Plus (POS)
- Kaiser Permanente Medicare Plus
- Maryland Physicians Care MCO
- Fee-for-Service (FFS) District of Columbia, Maryland and Virginia Medicaid
- Anthem BCBS of VA HealthKeepers (HMO)
- CareFirst Federal Employee Program (Std. & Basic PPO)
- CIGNA HMO & Network (HMO)
- Navigate
- Coventry of Delaware HMO/PPO
- HumanaChoice PPO
- Lasso Healthcare - Medicare Medical Savings Account
- IH-PPO
- CareFirst FEP Blue Focus
- Choice Care Network/HUMANA (PPO)
- M.D. IPA (HMO)
- Private Health Care Systems (PPO)
- Aetna Advantage 5750
- IH-HMO
- CareFirst Maryland Point of Service Plan
- Health Services for Children with Special Needs
- Kaiser Permanente HMO Plus and DHMO Plus Member
- Anthem BCBS of VA Key Care POS/PPO/Indemnity
- CIGNA HMO Open Access
- NYC Medicare Advantage Plus
- Mamsi Life & Health (Indem./PPO) Cardiac Global
- Humana Medicare Advantage - PPO
- Anthem BCBS of VA HealthKeepers (POS & POS OA)
- Great-West Healthcare POS/CIGNA
- Kaiser Permanente Select - Added Choice
- Choice POS
- DC/MD SHOP QHP Small Business Plans
- Johns Hopkins Advantage MD PLUS PPO
- M.D. IPA Preferred (POS)
- CareFirst Dual Prime HMO-SNP
- Optimum Choice & Optimum Choice Preferred (POS) Cardiac Global
- Aetna Signature Administrator PPO/TPA
- TRICARE East Prime
- United Student Resources
- CIGNA SureFit (HMO)
- Cigna Achieve Medicare (HMO C-SNP)
- HumanaChoice Honor's plan PPO
- Medicare FFS
- IH-Indemnity
- Amerigroup DC Alliance
- CareFirst Maryland Indemnity or PPO
- Kaiser Permanente Flexible Choice 3-tier POS
- Kaiser Permanente Signature - Added Choice
- OCI Direct (HMO)
- AmeriHealth Caritas DC Healthcare Alliance
- CIGNA PPO
- Kaiser Permanente Signature
- Anthem Federal Employee Program Basic
- CareFirst EPO
- Kaiser Permanente Select
- Sentara Health
- Aetna Classic 3500
- Select HMO/HealthFund/Health Network
- CareFirst Group Medicare Advantage
- Cigna True Choice Medicare (PPO)
- MedStar Family Choice DC Healthy Families
- Aetna Advantage 6350
- CareFirst (NCA) Indemnity
- Kaiser Permaenete Signature - Added Choice Cardiac Global
- Aetna Premier 200PD
- Coventry Health Care National Network PPO
- UnitedHealthcare and AARP Medicare Complete Plans
- Blue Choice Advantage
- CareFirst Administrators
- Kaiser Permanente Select Cardiac Global
- CareFirst MedStar Select PPO
- HighMark
- IH-Open EPO Plus
- Uniformed Services Family Health Plan
- Choice POS II
- Healthy Blue (HMO, POS)
- United Healthcare Choice
- Aetna Better Health of MD
- Aetna HMO
- IH-Open HMO Option
- MedStar Family Choice DC Healthcare Alliance
- Aetna Managed Choice Open Access (POS)
- Anthem Federal Employee Program Standard
- Amerigroup DC Healthy Families
- Core Essential (HMO)
- United HealthCare Community Plan - Maryland Health Choice Program
- Aetna Elect Choice/ Open Access (POS)
- UHC Passport
- Medicare Advantage - Advantra Value (PPO)
- CareFirst Blue Preferred PPO
- CareFirst NASCO
- CIGNA Connect EPO
- Alterwood Advanatge HMO & DSNP Plans
- IH-Open POS II
- TRICARE East Select
- UnitedHealthcare Medicare Adv. Special Needs Plans
- CareFirst BlueChoice HMO
- BCBS Out-of-State Medicare Plans (Blue Advantage)
- BlueChoice Open Access
- CareFirst BlueCross BlueShield Advantage Core/Enhanced
- Employee Health Plan
- Cigna True Choice Plus Medicare (PPO)
- MultiPlan, Inc
- Aetna Worker's Compensation Network
- Kaiser Maryland Medicaid MCO
- First Health PPO
- Jai Medical Systems - Maryland Health Choice
- Kaiser Permanente Flexible Choice POS Cardiac Global
- Aetna Elect Choice/ EPO (Aetna Health Fund)
- Aetna Student Health Insurance
- Aetna Classic 5000
- United Healthcare Choice Plus Cardiac Global
- Network OA
- Geisinger Medicare Advantage
- CareFirst Group Medicare Advantage prescription drug benefit (PPO)
- CIGNA EPO
- IH-POS
- Aetna Classic 5000PD
- Advantra Platinum (PPO)
- Veterans Affairs Community Care Network
- Choice POS II Open Access
- Aetna Open Choice (PPO)
- Anthem BCBS Medi Blue Dual Adv
- Anthem BCBS Medi Blue SNP
- BCBS of Michigan (BCN Advantage,Security Blue, Freedom, Medicare PLUS Blue Group PPO)
- IH-EPO Plus
- IH-Network Only Plus
- OA Plus
- Choice Fund PPO
- Coventry Health Care of Virginia
- Tricare Reserve Select
- United Healthcare Choice Plus
- CIGNA POS/Network POS
- Aetna VA Exchange
- Johns Hopkins Advantage MD HMO
- Aetna Quality Point of Service (POS)
- UHC Group Medicare Advantage Plans (HMO, POS, PPO)
- MD IPA (HMO) & MD IPA Preferred Cardiac Global
- IH-Open HMO
- Aetna Managed Choice (POS)
- Cigna TotalCare (HMO D-SNP)
- First Health PPO
- Kaiser Permanente Medicare Advantage Signature and Select
- CIGNA Indemnity
- United Healthcare Select HMO - EPO/NPP
- United Healthcare Choice Cardiac Global
- United Healthcare Navigate Cardiac Global
- IH-Open Network Only Plus
- Aetna Traditional Choice (PPO)
- Johns Hopkins Advantage MD PPO
- UnitedHealthcare Individual Exchange Plans
- Aetna HMO-Open Access/Select OA/HealthFund/Health Network Option OA
- TRICARE for Life East
- Options PPO Cardiac Global
- Mamsi Life & Health (Indem./PPO)
- Anthem BCBS of VA HealthKeepers Plus
- CareFirst Blue Choice Opt Out Plus Open Access (POS)
- CIGNA PPO Plus
- Aetna Advantage 6350PD
- Aetna Basic
- AMERIVANTAGE/Amerigroup Community Care
- Cigna Alliance Medicare (HMO)
- Beech Street PPO
- IH-Open POS Plus
- Aetna Better Health of VA
- TriWest Healthcare Alliance
- United Healthcare Community Plan - VA Medicaid MCO
- Magellan Complete Care of VA - VA Medicaid MCO
- United Healthcare Options (PPO)
- WellPoint Maryland - Maryland Health Choice
- Optima Family Care MCO - VA Medicaid MCO
- Cigna Preferred Medicare (HMO)
- AmeriHealth Caritas DC Healthy Families
- Police and Fire Clinic
- Optimum Choice
- United Medicare Private Fee-for-Service (PFFS) plans
- Private Fee-for-Service Plans (PFFS)
- CareFirst Community Health Plan of MD
- HUMANA/Choice Care Medicare Plans (Choice, Gold Choice)
- Aetna Medicare Advantage PFFS Plan
- HealthyBlue PPO
- UnitedHealthcare Medicare Advantage DSNP District of Columbia
- Optimum Choice Preferred (POS)
- United Healthcare Select HMO-EPO/NPP Cardiac Global
- Medicare Direct
- Anthem BCBS Medi Blue Plus
- Humana Medicare Advantage - HMO Open Access
- CareFirst Blue Choice Opt Out Open Access
Videos
Education
Board Certification: American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology, Vascular Neurology
Board Certification: American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology, Neurology
Board Certification: American Board of Psychiatry & Neurology, Vascular Neurology
Board Certification: American Board of Psychiatry & Neurology, Neurology
Fellowship: Stanford University School of Medicine (2004)
Residency: Stanford University School of Medicine (2002)
Internship: California Pacific Medical Center GME (1999)
Medical School: Duke University School of Medicine (1998)
Awards
- NIH/NINDS Director’s Group Merit Award 2021: For outstanding collaboration and leadership in efforts to understand the mechanism of edema formation following cerebrovascular injury
- NIH/NINDS Director’s Group Merit Award 2020: For a continued commitment to provide outstanding NIH/NINDS Stroke clinical care despite challenges of COVID-19 pandemic
- Castle Connolly Exceptional Women in Medicine: 2017-2025, consecutively
- District of Columbia Hospital Association Commitment to Excellence Award 2016 Presented to the MWHC Comprehensive Stroke Center team for demonstrating commitment to providing leadership and support for patients, staff, and the hospital
- MedStar Washington Hospital Center Board of Directors Program Excellence Award 2015 Presented to the Comprehensive Stroke Center; one of 3 MedStar Washington programs awarded
- American Heart Association/American Stroke Association – Greater Washington Region Advocate of the Year Award 2014, 2015
- Castle Connolly Top Doctors: 2013-2025, consecutively
- District of Columbia Hospital Association Patient Safety Award 2010
Hospital affiliations
News and publications
“Picturing Stroke Recovery” (NIH blog, 2024)
Scientific American (2016): Stroke Study Sparks Call for Revamping Emergency Care Plan
NIH: A SMARTer approach to stroke care
Neurology Journal Podcast: June 16, 2015 issue: SMART Study
MedStar Washington Hospital Center Named Region’s First Certified Comprehensive Stroke Center
WTOP (2012): Stroke: The other cardiovascular disease
Washington Post (2011): Study in D.C. hospitals reveals disparity in stroke treatment for blacks
Complete list of published work in My Bibliography:
Select publications:
- Comparison of Hemorrhage on CT versus MRI After Thrombectomy: The HECATE study[Stroke: Vascular and Interventional Neurology]
- ii. Post-ischemic hyperemia following endovascular therapy for acute stroke is associated with lesion growth[J Cereb Blood Flow Metab]
- Prevalence of Imaging Targets in Patients with Minor Stroke Selected for IV tPA Treatment Using MRI: The Treatment of Minor Stroke with MRI Evaluation Study (TIMES) [Neurology]
- Temporally distinct myeloid cell responses mediate damage and repair after cerebrovascular injury [Nature Neuroscience]
- Rapid ADC evolution after early revascularization: A potential marker of secondary injury? [Stroke]
- Intravenous thrombolysis in unwitnessed stroke onset: MR WITNESS trial results [Annals of Neurology]
- Building Better Systems for Stroke: The Time Is Now [JAMA Neurology]
- Effects of Increasing IV tPA-treated stroke mimic rates at CT-based centers on clinical outcomes [Neurology]
- Screening with MRI for Accurate and Rapid Stroke Treatment: SMART [Neurology]
- Negative Diffusion Weighted Imaging after IV tPA is rare and unlikely to indicate averted infarction [Stroke]
- Racial Disparities in tissue plasminogen activator treatment rate for stroke. A population-based study [Stroke]
- Understanding Reasons for Delay in Seeking Acute Stroke Care in an Underserved Urban Population [Stroke]