Deepa Malaiyandi MD, FNCS, graduated from St. George’s University SOM in Grenada, West Indies. She went on to complete her Neurology Residency at the Medical College of Wisconsin and her Neurocritical Care Fellowship at the University of Pittsburgh. She served as an Assistant Professor of Neurology at the University of Texas Medical Branch and an Assistant Professor of Critical Care Medicine and Neurology at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center where she also served as the Founding Director of the Neurovascular Intensive Care Unit at UPMC Altoona Hospital. Currently she is an Assistant Professor of Neurology, Internal Medicine, Anesthesiology and Surgery, as well as the Division Director of Neurocritical Care, and the Ethics Curriculum Director for undergraduate medical education at the University of Toledo COMLS, Toledo Ohio. Dr. Malaiyandi is an attending neurointensivist and hospital ethics committee member and consultant at the ProMedica Toledo Hospital, Toledo OH. She is as a member of the medical advisory board for Life Connections of Ohio, the regional organ procurement organization, and is an inducted Fellow of the Neurocritical Care Society, the international society for the fielf of Neurocritical Care.