Kenneth Gaines

Biography:

Dr. Kenneth Gaines is a Board-certified Neurologist/Vascular Neurologist with 40+ years’ experience in stroke care and research. He has served as Site PI/Steering Committee member for 20+ randomized stroke trials, including SECORDS, an NIH-funded RO1 multicenter study of ethnic differences in stroke; Stroke Mobile, a NIH Office of Minority Health-funded study of home-based care delivery in the African American community; and a CDC-funded grant developing stroke telemedicine in rural Louisiana. Dr. Gaines designed and was PI of a CMS-funded Innovation Award to redesign stroke care delivery and is PI for C3FIT (Coordinated, Collaborative, Comprehensive, Family-based, Integrated, and Technology-enabled Care), a multidisciplinary, randomized comparative effectiveness trial testing an integrated delivery model from symptom onset through 12-months’ post-stroke discharge at 18 US sites