- Fellowship - Georgia Health Sciences University (2004-2005), Vascular Neurology
- Residency - Georgia Health Sciences University (2001-2004), Neurology
- Residency - Atlanta Medical Center (2000-2001), Internal Medicine
- Internship - Atlanta Medical Center (1999-2000), Internal Medicine
- Medical School - Morehouse School of Medicine (1995-1999)
Biography
Mehari Gebreyohanns, M.D., is an Associate Professor in the Department of Neurology at UT Southwestern. He specializes in stroke care and telemedicine.
An alum of Georgia State University, Dr. Gebreyohanns earned his medical degree from Morehouse School of Medicine and completed a neurology residency at the Medical College of Georgia, where he also performed a fellowship in vascular neurology.
Prior to joining the staff at UT Southwestern, Dr. Gebreyohanns served as Medical Director of the stroke unit at the United Regional Health Care System in Wichita Falls, Texas, where he led the effort in establishing that hospital’s first Joint Commission-designated stroke center. He then served at several hospitals in the Arlington area before he joined UT Southwestern in 2012.
In addition to his clinical duties, Dr. Gebreyohanns serves as the Director of UT Southwestern’s Telestroke Development and Outreach. He is also a mentor of students and residents through activities coordinated by the Department of Neurology, the Office of Faculty and Diversity Development, the Office of Minority Affairs, and the Department of Global Health, where he mentors medical students who pursue a global health track.
He is a member of the American Academy of Neurology, the American Heart/Stroke Association, and the Texas Medical Association.
Meet Dr. Gebreyohanns
Stroke specialist in Dallas
Mehari Gebreyohanns, M.D., is on a mission to bring UT Southwestern's superior stroke care and education to communities throughout North Texas—even those 100 miles away from his hospital’s walls.
Dr. Gebreyohanns was drawn to stroke care by the challenges and rewards of caring for patients with a complex and potentially devastating disease.
"Stroke is intertwined with other chronic conditions – hypertension, heart disease, and diabetes,” he says. “As a stroke neurologist I have to be knowledgeable about those problems, not just stroke, and I need to collaborate with specialists in those fields.
“The worldwide burden of stroke in terms of death, disability, and financial strain is profound,” he says. “I’m proud to play a role in reducing that burden for my patients.”
As the director of UT Southwestern’s stroke outreach and telestroke programs, Dr. Gebreyohanns is intent on sharing with other hospitals the expertise his local patients receive.
“Patients in underserved communities deserve this same quality of health care; we at UT Southwestern can make that happen by partnering with those hospitals," he says.
The telestroke outreach program allows physicians at community hospitals to consult with UT Southwestern neurologists at a moment's notice, and it provides patients in these hospitals with rapid, high-quality stroke care from certified vascular neurologists.
"We connect through our handheld devices, so that wherever we are – in our car, at lunch, or where ever – if there’s an Internet connection, we can see the patient right away,” Dr. Gebreyohanns says.
On the patient's end, a robot with a high-resolution, remote-controlled camera allows the UT stroke neurologist to perform a detailed examination.
"The patients can see us too; they can put our names with our faces, so we establish a real relationship."
Dr. Gebreyohanns says the thrill of helping a stroke patient achieve the best outcome possible never goes away.
“A very important part of my job is to ease the distress of patients and their families at their most vulnerable moment, when many times they don’t know what happened to them or what their life is going to look like from here,” he says. “To gain and maintain the trust of these patients and their families is an awesome privilege and a great responsibility. I remind myself of that every day.”
Education & Training
Books & Publications
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Publications
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Door to needle time trends after transition to tenecteplase: A Multicenter Texas stroke registry
Rodriguez N, Prasad S, Olson DW, Bandela S, Gealogo Brown G, Kwon Y, Gebreyohanns M, Jones EM, Ifejika NL, Stone S, Anderson JA, Savitz SI, Cruz-Flores S, Warach SJ, Goldberg MP, Birnbaum LA Journal of Stroke and Cerebrovascular Diseases 2024 Aug 33 -
Fostering a Culture of Research: From Recommendations to Implementation
Sebastian IA, De Souza AC, Gebrewold MA, Gandhi DB, Cano-Nigenda V, Ferguson C, Gebreyohanns M, Lioutas VA Stroke 2024 Jul 55 e191-e194 -
The African Stroke Organization Conference 2023
Author Collaboration A2, Sarfo FS, Gebreyohanns M, Akinyemi R, Ebenezer AA, Ovbiagele B, Owolabi M The Lancet Neurology 2024 May 23 459-460 -
Multicenter exploration of tenecteplase transition factors: A quantitative analysis
Prasad S, Jones EM, Gebreyohanns M, Kwon Y, Olson DW, Anderson JA, Savitz SI, Cruz-Flores S, Warach SJ, Rhodes CE, Goldberg MP, Ifejika NL Journal of Stroke and Cerebrovascular Diseases 2024 Apr 33 -
A qualitative study of barriers and facilitators to using tenecteplase to treat acute ischemic stroke
Prasad S, Jones EM, Gebreyohanns M, Aguilera V, Olson DW, Anderson JA, Savitz SI, Flores SC, Warach SJ, Rhodes CE, Goldberg MP, Ifejika NL Journal of Stroke and Cerebrovascular Diseases 2024 Jan 33 -
African Stroke Organization Conference 2022: Stroke in the Age of Emerging Challenges and Advances
Gebreyohanns M, Akinyemi RO, Owolabi MO, Sarfo FS, Tagge R, Ovbiagele B Journal of the American Heart Association 2023 Dec 12 -
Pragmatic solutions to reduce the global burden of stroke: a World Stroke Organization–Lancet Neurology Commission
Author Collaboration WS, Feigin VL, Owolabi MO, Feigin VL, Abd-Allah F, Akinyemi RO, Bhattacharjee NV, Brainin M, Cao J, Caso V, Dalton B, Davis A, Dempsey R, Duprey J, Feng W, Ford GA, Gall S, Gandhi D, Good DC, Hachinski V, Hacke W, Hankey GJ, Ishida M, Johnson W, Kim J, Lavados P, Lindsay P, Mahal A, Martins S, Murray C, Nguyen TP, Norrving B, Olaiya MT, Olalusi OV, Pandian J, Phan H, Platz T, Ranta A, Rehman S, Roth G, Sebastian IA, Smith AE, Suwanwela NC, Sylaja PN, Thapa R, Thrift AG, Uvere E, Vollset SE, Yavagal D, Yaria J, Gebreyohanns M The Lancet Neurology 2023 Dec 22 1160-1206 -
Mechanical Thrombectomy Global Access for Stroke (MT-GLASS): A Mission Thrombectomy (MT-2020 Plus) Study
Asif KS, Otite FO, Desai SM, Herial N, Inoa V, Al-Mufti F, Jadhav AP, Dmytriw AA, Castonguay A, Khandelwal P, Potter-Vig J, Szeder V, Kulman T, Urrutia V, Masoud H, Toth G, Limaye K, Aroor S, Brinjikji W, Rai A, Pandian J, Gebreyohanns M, Leung T, Mansour O, Demchuk AM, Huded V, Martins S, Zaidat O, Huo X, Campbell B, Sylaja PN, Miao Z, Saver J, Ortega-Gutierrez S, Yavagal DR, Cirio JJ, Lylyk P, Ferrario A, Plaghos LL, Arroyo J, Yan B, Chandra R, Ibrahim WH, Alnidawi F, Islam SS, Shahidullah M, Saavedra VV, Alverne FJ, Magalhaes P, Silva GS, Sirakov S, Kalpachki R, Alioski N, Lamou EG, Shankar J, Stotts G, Rowe D, Gayle F, De Souza R, Ramos C, Garcãa A, Ali A, Sandy S, Lavados PM, Rivera R, Guzmán TF, Villarraga A, Estrada C, Pabon B, Krajina A, Tomek A, Adebayo PB, Abdo G, Maldonado S N, Hassan F, Khedr EM, Khinikadze M, Nadareishvili Z, Tsiskaridze A, Syrmos N, Mitsias P, Das B, Roy J, Gupta V, Gupta V, Khurana D, Karapurkar A, Stivastava MV, Alurkar A, Sharma A, Lahoti S, Kumar R, Kuruttukulam GV, Sani AF, Sari IM, Khassaf M, Majid Nassir T, Sakai N, Yamagami H, Dababneh H, Aladham FA, Berdikhojayev M, Medukhanova S, Kikano R, Alaraj A, Ahdab R, Zaidi WA, Kadir KA, Arauz A, Gongora F, Jambaldorj A, Xxx G, Shwe ZM, Thit WM, Ranta A, Wu T, Rayo EE, Owolabi M, Makanjuola A, Ahmad S, Wasay M, Rashid U, Mernes R, Paniagua O, Gallo M, Moquillaza M, Collantes ME, Mariano MM, Kobayashi A, Rodriguez-Mercado R, Guardia RA, Imam Y, Ahmed AZ, Alhazzani A, Al-Jehani HM, Lee W, Zeleňák K, Klepanec A, Krastev G, Frol S, Brey N, Rossouw A, De Silva P, Gunasekera H, Ranawaka U, Osman H, El-Sadig SM, Suwanwela NC, Akarathanawat W, Tantivatana J, Hammami N, Sassi SB, Ozdemir AO, Giray S, Lebedynets D, Konotopchik S, John S, Hussain SI, Novakovic-White R, Ozdemir AO, Giray S, Gordon Perue GL, Then R, Berrutti C, Crosa R, Nguyen HT, Le HV, Vu TT Circulation 2023 Apr 147 1208-1220 -
The African Stroke Organization Conference 2021: Building Capacity, Careers, Collaborations, and Contributions: ASOC: Building Capacity
Gebreyohanns M, Akinyemi RO, Owolabi MO, Sarfo FS, Tagge R, Ovbiagele B Journal of Stroke and Cerebrovascular Diseases 2022 Apr 31 -
Teaching NeuroImage: Central Pontine Myelinolysis in Diabetic Ketoacidosis
Gonzalez Caldito N, Karim N, Gebreyohanns M Neurology 2021 Nov 97 E1971-E1972 -
Letter to the Editor
Gebreyohanns M, Akinyemi RA, Owolabi MO, Sarfo FS, Tagge R, Ovbiagele B Journal of the Neurological Sciences 2020 Nov 418 -
Providing Stroke and Hypertension Education in Amharic for Ethiopian Persons Living in Dallas, Texas, United States
Gebreyohanns M, Onuigbo CC, Ali A, Stutzman SE, Olson DW Creative Nursing 2020 Feb 26 66-73 -
Central Nervous System Pain
Salahuddin H, Gebreyohanns M 2020 Jan 307-387 -
The Sub-Saharan Africa Conference on Stroke (SSACS): An idea whose time has come
Owolabi M, Sarfo FS, Akinyemi R, Gebreyohanns M, Ovbiagele B Journal of the Neurological Sciences 2019 May 400 194-198 -
The case for an Amharic term for stroke: "ye-Angol Tikat"
Aseffa S, Stutzman S, Kamal A, Measho D, Gebreyohanns M Journal of Neuroscience Nursing 2019 Apr 51 69-73 -
Rivaroxaban or aspirin for patent foramen ovale and embolic stroke of undetermined source: a prespecified subgroup analysis from the NAVIGATE ESUS trial
Author Collaboration NE, Kasner SE, Swaminathan B, Lavados P, Sharma M, Muir K, Veltkamp R, Ameriso SF, Endres M, Lutsep H, Messé SR, Spence JD, Nedeltechev K, Perera K, Santo G, Olavarria V, Lindgren A, Bangdiwala S, Shoamanesh A, Berkowitz SD, Mundl H, Connolly SJ, Hart RG, Abdelhamid N, Abdul Rahman D, Abdul-Saheb M, Abreu P, Abroskina M, Abu Ahmad F, Accassat S, Acciaresi M, Adami A, Ahmad N, Ahmed F, Alberto Hawkes M, Alemseged F, Ali A, Altavilla R, Alwis L, Amarenco P, Amaro S, Amaya Sanchez LE, Amelia Pinto A, Ameriso SF, Amin H, Amino T, Amjad AK, Gebreyohanns M, Johnson M, Magadan A, Shang T The Lancet Neurology 2018 Dec 17 1053-1060 -
Sickle cell disease: Primary stroke prevention
Gebreyohanns M, Adams RJ CNS spectrums 2004 Jun 9 445-449
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Door to needle time trends after transition to tenecteplase: A Multicenter Texas stroke registry
Clinical Focus
- Stroke
- Neuro-Critical Care
- Cerebrovascular Disease