National leaders of the American Heart Association will honor the Stroke Treatment Alliance of Rochester, a collaborative effort to improve stroke care in the community’s four major hospitals, on Monday, May 21, at Oak Hill Country Club.

AHA CEO Nancy Brown along with AHA Chairman-elect Bernie Dennis and Mark Taubman, M.D., dean of the URMC School of Medicine and Dentistry and former chair of the AHA National Research Committee, will recognize neurosurgeons Webster Pilcher, M.D., Ph.D., and Babak Jahromi, M.D., Ph.D., and neurologist Curtis Benesch, M.D., M.P.H., who lead the STAR program, for their collaborative spirit and commitment to improving the community's health.