Kiarash Golshani, MD

Dr. Wengui Yu is a boarded-certified neurologist, neurointensivist and vascular neurologist who sees patients at the UCI Health Comprehensive Stroke & Cerebrovascular Center in Orange. He specializes in treating severe strokes and complex cerebrovascular disorders. Yu earned his medical degree at Jiangxi Medical College in China, followed by a PhD in experimental medicine from McGill University in Montreal, Canada. He also completed a residency in neurology at University of Missouri and a fellowship in neurocritical care and stroke at the University of California, San Francisco. Yu directed neurocritical care programs at University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center in Dallas and at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles before joining UC Irvine Medical Center and the UC Irvine School of Medicine. Yu's research interests include outcomes for severe stroke and traumatic brain injury, intra-cranial atherosclerotic stenosis, cervical arterial dissection, cerebral venous anomaly and inflammation of the central nervous system. He is the author or co-author of numerous peer-reviewed publications. His goal is to make the Comprehensive Stroke and Cerebrovascular Center one of the best in the nation.

Dr. Frank P.K. Hsu is a fellowship-trained neurosurgeon who specializes in cerebrovascular, minimally invasive and open skull base surgery. He has extensive expertise in radiosurgery and functional surgery for movement disorders, deep brain stimulation, epilepsy and pain. He also is highly skilled at treating patients with aneurysms, arteriovenous malformations and cavernous malformations, as well as malignant and benign tumors of the brain and spine, including pituitary tumors and meningiomas. Hsu received his medical degree from the University of Maryland in Bethesda, where he previously earned a PhD in mechanical engineering. He completed an internship in general surgery and a residency in neurological surgery at Oregon Health Sciences University in Portland. He completed fellowship training in cerebrovascular and skull base surgery at the Barrow Neurological Institute in Phoenix, Ariz. He returned to Oregon Health Sciences University for fellowship training in functional stereotactic and pain surgery. His research interests are in the biomechanics of cerebral aneurysms, functional neurosurgery and epilepsy. Before coming to UCI Medical Center, he served as director of functional, cerebrovascular and skull base surgery at Loma Linda University Medical Center in Loma Linda, Calif.. Hsu, who also speaks Mandarin and Taiwanese.