She is also a director of the Clinical Translational Research Division in Neurology at the University of Miami. Dr. Rundek graduated from The University of Zagreb, Croatia, where she received her medical degree. She received a PhD in neuroscience at the Max-Planck Institute in Munich, Germany, and trained in neurology at the Grossharden Spital in Munich and the University Hospital Sisters of Mercy in Zagreb. She received her neurology and fellowship training in stroke and neuroepidemiology at Columbia University.