Vascular neurologist is next VITALS speaker
William J. Hicks II, M.D., vascular neurologist and vice president of neurosciences at OhioHealth, joins VITALS | Visionary Health Leadership in Action at noon, Thursday, May 1, via Zoom.
Free CME credit is available.
VITALS is NEOMED’s health leadership speaker series presented in collaboration with University Hospitals.
ABOUT WILLIAM J. HICKS II, M.D.
William J. (“B.J.”) Hicks II, M.D., is a neurologist specializing in vascular neurology. He focuses on conditions of the cerebrovascular system, namely ischemic and hemorrhagic strokes. His main areas of interest include rapid access to acute stroke rescue therapies and clinical trials.
After a nationwide search in 2023, Dr. Hicks assumed the rule of vice president of Neurosciences at OhioHealth, guiding the future of one of the elite, community-focused, patient-centric neuroscience programs in the country.
For over a decade, Dr. Hicks served as the co-director of the OhioHealth Riverside Methodist Hospital’s Comprehensive Stroke Center and a key leader for OhioHealth’s “StrokeNetwork,” bringing stroke expertise to the bedside of roughly 30 hospitals and emergency rooms throughout Ohio. In addition, his groundbreaking work as the OhioHealth physician lead of Columbus’ Mobile Stroke Treatment Unit has helped usher in a unique stroke treatment to the city. Considering these and other accolades during his years at Riverside, he was elected president of the medical staff.
Dr. Hicks received his Doctor of Medicine degree from Howard University College of Medicine, completed residency at Henry Ford Hospital in Detroit, Michigan, and a two-year NIH-funded vascular neurology fellowship at the University of Texas Medical Center at Houston.
Dr. Hicks is an active member in the Central Ohio medical community. He was recently the president of the Columbus American Heart Association/American Stroke Association (AHA/ASA), marking the first time a neurologist had served in that role. He is now the immediate past-president of the Board of Directors for the 13 state Midwest Region Affiliate of the AHA/ASA, one of their 5 regional boards in the United States. He is also in his third term on the American Stroke Association Advisory Committee. He recently served as a Board member for OhioHealth and remains a member of the Board of Governors on behalf of The Columbus Foundation.