• Winning the big game: A stroke took David Jacobs off the football field, but he recovered to have a new career and start a family (shown here with his wife, Desiree, and their two sons). Winning the big game: A stroke took David Jacobs off the football field, but he recovered to have a new career and start a family (shown here with his wife, Desiree, and their two sons).
  • Emory rehab director Catherine Maloney helps patients regain the ability to swallow, speak, and move after stroke. Emory rehab director Catherine Maloney helps patients regain the ability to swallow, speak, and move after stroke.
  • Emory neurologist Michael Frankel helped discover the clot-busting properties of tPA to treat stroke in the 1990s. Head of the Marcus Stroke and Neuroscience Center at Grady, he currently leads a national NIH study to evaluate blood biomarkers in at-risk patients. Emory neurologist Michael Frankel helped discover the clot-busting properties of tPA to treat stroke in the 1990s. Head of the Marcus Stroke and Neuroscience Center at Grady, he currently leads a national NIH study to evaluate blood biomarkers in at-risk patients.
  • David Jacobs works to raise awareness of stroke and the importance of quick response by participating in community events across Georgia. David Jacobs works to raise awareness of stroke and the importance of quick response by participating in community events across Georgia.
  • Susan McKessy (in pink) rebuilt her life after stroke at Emory’s Center for Rehabilitation Medicine. Today she volunteers at the center, where she works alongside several of the clinicians who helped her during recovery. Susan McKessy (in pink) rebuilt her life after stroke at Emory’s Center for Rehabilitation Medicine. Today she volunteers at the center, where she works alongside several of the clinicians who helped her during recovery.
  • Susan McKessy (in orange) rebuilt her life after stroke at Emory’s Center for Rehabilitation Medicine. Today she volunteers at the center, where she works alongside several of the clinicians who helped her during recovery. Susan McKessy (in orange) rebuilt her life after stroke at Emory’s Center for Rehabilitation Medicine. Today she volunteers at the center, where she works alongside several of the clinicians who helped her during recovery.
  • Fadi Nahab is medical director of the Emory Stroke Center, one of 30 centers nationally to have Comprehensive Stroke Center Certification. Fadi Nahab is medical director of the Emory Stroke Center, one of 30 centers nationally to have Comprehensive Stroke Center Certification.
  • While at Rollins, Carrie Oliver taught Atlanta high school students about the signs of mental illness. She joined the workforce this year as special projects coordinator with the Southwest Georgia Area Health Education Center in Albany. Emory neurosurgeon Dan Barrow spends much of his time on aneurysms and blood vessel malformations of the brain and spinal cord.