Ryan Kian Hakimi, DO

Ryan Hakimi, DO, MS, NVS, RPNI, CPB, FNCS, FCCM, is Director of the Neuro ICU and Transcranial Doppler Ultrasound Services as well as the Chair of Pharmacy and Therapeutics at Prisma Health in Greenville, South Carolina. Dr. Hakimi also serves as a professor at the University of South Carolina Greenville School of Medicine.

Previously, he was the first neurointensivist in Oklahoma and the founding medical director of the Oklahoma University Medical Center Neurosciences Intensive Care Unit, where he served as an associate professor in the Department of Neurology at the University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center. He was also on the faculty at the Oklahoma State University Center for Health Sciences.

A U.S. Department of Energy Applied Health Physics Fellow, he graduated from Michigan State University College of Osteopathic Medicine. Dr. Hakimi completed his medicine internship and neurology residency at Michigan State University College of Osteopathic Medicine-Beaumont Hospital (Botsford). He then completed a two-year fellowship in neurocritical care and stroke at Duke University Medical Center. He is board certified in Neurology, Neurocritical Care, Neurosonology (RPNI) and as a Neurovascular Specialist (NVS).

Dr. Hakimi was the first fellowship-trained DO neurointensivist and the first DO to be designated as a Fellow of Neurocritical Care Society. He received Presidential Citations in 2014, 2017–2018 and 2020 from the Neurocritical Care Society, and in 2017 from the Society of Critical Care Medicine. He also received the 2017 ASN Volunteer Member Award where he served as the past treasurer and now serves as a board member and co-chair of the Certification Committee overseeing the NVS certification exam that he helped create.