Rate My Professor Rosalind Lai

Rosalind Lai, MD, is an Assistant Professor of Neurosurgery in the Department of Neurosurgery at the Jacobs School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences, University at Buffalo. She serves as Medical Director of the Neurological Stroke Service at Millard Fillmore Suburban Hospital. Dr. Lai earned her MD from Harvard Medical School cum laude in 2015 and a BA in Neuroscience from Wellesley College summa cum laude in 2011. Her training includes a neurosurgery internship at Brigham and Women’s Hospital/Boston Children’s Hospital in 2016, neurosurgery residency at the same institutions completed in 2022, and a neuroendovascular surgery fellowship at University at Buffalo Neurosurgery in 2023.

Dual-trained in cerebrovascular and endovascular neurosurgery, Dr. Lai manages cerebral aneurysms, arteriovenous malformations and fistulae, carotid artery disease, ischemic and hemorrhagic strokes, brain tumors, and spine conditions. Her research focuses on genomic, hormonal, and sex-specific factors in cerebrovascular disease, including the role of the X chromosome in cerebral aneurysms and reproductive risk factors for aneurysmal subarachnoid hemorrhage; she was Principal Investigator for the Harvard Nurses’ Health Study on reproductive risk factors during residency. Awards include the Congress of Neurological Surgeons Foundation/Cerebrovascular Section Young Investigator Grant (2023), Joe Niekro Research Grant, CNS Best Cerebrovascular Oral Poster Award (2023), Women’s Brain Initiative Grant (2018), Best Abstract Award (2019), and 40 Under 40 (2025). Key publications are “Association of Reproductive Life Span and Age at Menopause With the Risk of Aneurysmal Subarachnoid Hemorrhage” (Neurology, 2022), “Somatic Variants in SVIL in Cerebral Aneurysms” (Neurology Genetics, 2022), “Plasma Estrogen Levels and Aneurysmal Subarachnoid Hemorrhage in Women” (World Neurosurgery, 2024), “Bioinformatics analysis reveals major hub genes involved with extracellular matrix and inflammatory and endocrine pathways associated with intracranial aneurysm tissue” (Interventional Neuroradiology, 2025), and “Technical Success and Clinical Outcomes of the Low-Profile Visualized Intraluminal Support EVO (LVIS EVO) Stent in the Treatment of Intracranial Aneurysms: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis” (Neurosurgery, 2026).