Rachel Mehendale, MD is an instructor in neurology at CUIMC, in the Division of Critical Care and Hospitalist Neurology. Dr. Mehendale graduated from the University of Texas at Austin with a dual major in Plan II Honors and Russian, European and Eurasian Studies, followed by the University of Texas School of Medicine at San Antonio for her medical doctorate. She was at Baylor College of Medicine in Houston for her intern year and graduated from Columbia Neurology residency in 2018. As a neurohospitalist, Dr. Mehendale’s clinical interest includes stroke and translplant neurology, and her research interests include quality improvement and outcomes in stroke.