My name's Dave Loy. I am a neuro interventionalist in the department of medical imaging and radiology at the University of Virginia.

I provide neuro endovascular care to patients. I perform procedures from with inside blood vessels in the brain and in the spinal cord.

One thing that I do a little differently than most is I perform procedures with, what I call, ultra-minimally invasive techniques, and typically these techniques are formed by accessing the large femoral artery in the leg. And I have learned over the years to do the procedure through the small radial artery in the wrist, and so I will routinely fix a brain aneurism through a tiny incision in the wrist and send them home the next day with a bandaid on their wrist.

I lost my grandmother to a brain hemorrhage and that is one of the things that really got me very interested in doing something about the diseases that cause that.

Along the way, I've met lots and lots of patients that have been suddenly devastated or their lives have been turned upside down by a ruptured brain aneurism or stroke.

It's been a life changing experience to spend a lot of time with those types of patients and get them through, not only the acute treatment of the brain aneurism or the stroke, but to manage them in my clinics for prolonged periods of time and help them through all the struggles that they have afterwards.

I think what UVA has to offer is just incredible depth of expertise in all areas, so that you know you're going to be taken care of and that the quality of care is not in question.