Prof. Arthur has been the director of cerebrovascular and endovascular neurosurgery for Semmes Murphey Clinic and the UTHSC Department of Neurosurgery since 2009. In addition, Prof. Arthur also has more than a decade of distinguished service as a neurosurgeon at major hospitals in Memphis. He has served as the chief of interventional neuroradiology for Baptist Memorial Hospital since 2010, the director of vascular and endovascular neurosurgery for Methodist University Hospital since 2010, and chair of Neurosurgery at Methodist University Hospital since 2018. Prof. Arthur has also been fellowship director of the UTHSC/Semmes Murphey Clinic Fellowship in Open and Endovascular Neurosurgery since 2011.

Prof. Ajay K. Wakhloo, MD, PhD, FAHA directs the Neurointerventional Radiology program at Beth Israel Lahey Health, Lahey Hospital and Medical Center and is Professor at Tufts University Medical School, Boston. He completed a fellowship in interventional Neuroradiology in Germany and Endovascular Neurosurgery in the department of Neurosurgery at SUNY-Buffalo, NY. He has been the principal investigator or co-investigator on numerous grants from the National Institutes of Health (NIH), private foundations, and industry and has authored or co-authored over 300 peer-reviewed publications and book chapters on stroke treatment. Prof. Wakhloo pioneered the field of flow diversion, the newest technology for the minimally invasive treatment of brain aneurysms, and introduced the concept of a retrievable stent to remove an embolus for the treatment of stroke.