UChicago Medicine Faculty Physicians
Ali Eltatawy, MD
Ali Eltatawy, MD
UChicago Medicine Faculty Physicians
Assistant Professor of Neurology
Specialties
- Neurology
- Vascular Neurology
Locations
- Crown Point, IN
- Chicago - Hyde Park
- Flossmoor
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[AUDIO LOGO] My name is Dr. Eltatawy. I am a UChicago vascular neurologist. So I deal with anything that has to do with blood vessels and the brain. So that would include things like stroke, as well as vascular malformations, aneurysms, things like that. I also have a subspecialty in subdural hematomas and see patients in a subspecialty-specific clinic. The real reason why I ended up being a physician is because my father ended up very sick. And I was actually running a part of our car parts business and working as a mechanic, selling car parts, as well as cars and doing a lot of that work when he got sick, and ended up asking me on his deathbed to apply for med school, which I did basically two months after he asked me. And then he passed away before he found out that I got into med school. And then the rest is history. I've absolutely loved it. And he was right. It was the right move for me. Part of the reason why I came to University of Chicago is to start this subdural hematoma clinic. Subdural hematomas are a bit of a homeless disease. When they happen acutely, you end up in the ICU when you have this bleed on the brain. And then neurosurgery has the job of either doing a procedure on it and removing the blood or not. But a very large amount of these folks never actually get a procedure, and we don't have great medications for it. So many of these folks end up in limbo, where ICU is not going to be following them up because they only work in acute care, and neurosurgery isn't going to be following them up because they're not going to get a procedure. But stroke neurology and vascular neurology is in this very unique position to treat these patients longitudinally. And a lot of the symptoms and disease processes that we are learning more and more about really do have to do with the vascular neurology of it. And so my job right now is to try and build this clinic out and to help start research that looks at these patients and finds better avenues for treatment. Most people meet me on the very worst day of their life. So you can imagine I see people at their very best and their very worst. I see people see people suffering relatively regularly. And these folks are scared, reasonably afraid of what comes next in their care. And it being the worst day of their life, it's tough to still think clearly on what comes next. My job is to think clearly for them if I can, to try and calm them, to be a consistent and knowledgeable and calming voice in those acute moments when the world is falling apart. Most people, again, meet me on the worst day of their life. So when you meet me in clinic, and you walk into the door and I'm talking to you and not your family, those are moments that excite me because it means that I've gotten to you before the bad thing happened. And in stroke care, one thing about stroke is that when you feel a stroke and it truly happens, it's devastating. And who you were before that is no longer who you are now. Whether that's your cognition, your memory, your ability to move, sensation, the ability to take care of yourself, so all these things in an instant change literally overnight. And I think for a lot of these folks, I have the unique ability to make a change in their life or help support them in changing their life to try and reduce the chance that they'll have to see me on the worst day of their life. [AUDIO LOGO]
Ali Rada Eltatawy, MD, is a board-certified vascular neurologist and physician-scientist who specializes in the acute and longitudinal care for patients with ischemic and hemorrhagic stroke, as well as complex cerebrovascular disorders, such as subdural hematomas and traumatic brain injuries.
Dr. Eltatawy understands how overwhelming it can be for patients and families to face a stroke diagnosis. He takes time to explain each step of care in clear, supportive ways and works closely with families to create treatment plans tailored to their needs. His goal is to guide patients through these difficult moments with compassion while improving outcomes and supporting long-term recovery.
Along with his clinical practice, Dr. Eltatawy is dedicated to research that integrates neuropathology and advanced neuroimaging to better understand subdural hematoma, meningeal biolog, and post-stroke recovery. He has contributed to multiple national and international stroke trials, and his ongoing work explores biomarker-driven strategies to predict outcomes and identify therapeutic targets.
Dr. Eltatawy understands how overwhelming it can be for patients and families to face a stroke diagnosis. He takes time to explain each step of care in clear, supportive ways and works closely with families to create treatment plans tailored to their needs. His goal is to guide patients through these difficult moments with compassion while improving outcomes and supporting long-term recovery.
Along with his clinical practice, Dr. Eltatawy is dedicated to research that integrates neuropathology and advanced neuroimaging to better understand subdural hematoma, meningeal biolog, and post-stroke recovery. He has contributed to multiple national and international stroke trials, and his ongoing work explores biomarker-driven strategies to predict outcomes and identify therapeutic targets.
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Board Certifications
- Neurology
Languages Spoken
- Arabic
- English
- German
Medical Education
- University of Toledo
Internship
- University of Cincinnati Medical Center
Residency
- UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI MEDICAL CENTER
Fellowship
- National institutes of Health; University of Toledo
Memberships & Medical Societies
- American Academy of Neurology
- American Medical Association
- Society of NeuroInterventional Surgery
News & Research
Insurance
- Aetna Better Health *see insurance page
- Aetna HMO (specialists only)
- Aetna Medicare Advantage HMO & PPO
- Aetna POS
- Aetna PPO
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- BCBS HMO (HMOI) (specialists only)
- BCBS Medicare Advantage HMO & PPO
- BCBS PPO
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- Cigna POS
- Cigna PPO
- CountyCare *see insurance page
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- Humana Medicare Advantage Gold Choice PFFS
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- Medicare
- Multiplan PPO
- PHCS PPO
- United Choice Plus POS/PPO
- United Choice HMO (specialists only)
- United Options (PPO)
- United Select (HMO & EPO) (specialists only)
- United W500 Emergent Wrap
- University of Chicago Health Plan (UCHP)
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Some of our physicians and health professionals collaborate with external pharmaceutical, medical device, or other medical related entities to develop new treatments and products to improve clinical outcomes for patients. In some instances, the physician has ownership interests in the external entity and/or is compensated for advising or speaking about the entity’s products or treatments. These payments may include compensation for consulting and speaking engagements, equity, and/or royalties for products invented by our physicians. To assure objectivity and integrity in patient care, UChicago Medicine requires all physicians and health professionals to report their relationships and financial interests with external entities on an annual basis. This information is used to review relationships and transactions that might give rise to potential financial conflicts of interest, and when considered to be significant a management plan to mitigate any biases is created.
If you are a patient at UChicago Medicine and would like more information about your physician’s external relationships, please talk with your physician. You may also visit the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) Open Payments website at https://openpaymentsdata.cms.gov/ . CMS Open Payments is a national disclosure program that promotes a more transparent and accountable health care system. It houses a publicly accessible database of payments that reporting entities, including drug and medical device companies, make to covered recipients like physicians and hospitals.
Information in the CMS Open Payments database could potentially contain inaccurately reported and out of date payment information. All information is open to personal interpretation, if there are questions about the data, patients and their advocates should speak directly to their health care provider for a better understanding.