Elad I. Levy is an American neurosurgeon, researcher, and innovator who played a major role in the development and testing of thrombectomy.

He has focused his career and research on developing evidence-based medicine and literature showing the benefits of thrombectomy for the treatment of stroke. He is currently Professor of Neurosurgery and Radiology, and the L. Nelson Hopkins, MD Professor Endowed Chair of the Department of Neurosurgery at the State University of New York at Buffalo (SUNY).

In 2011 Levy founded and is currently the president for the Program for Understanding Childhood Concussion & Stroke (PUCCS), which aims to promote research and awareness to prevent concussion in all sports.

In 2013 he became the unaffiliated National Football League (NFL) Neurotrauma consultant for the Buffalo Bills.

In 2017 he was appointed as one of 12 National Directors to the American Board of Neurological Surgeons.

In 2018 he was appointed Secretary to the Congress of Neurological Surgeons Executive Committee and also appointed to the Ethics Committee for the American Association of Neurological Surgeons.

He is also the Director of Stroke Research and Director of Endovascular Stroke Treatment and Research at the Department of Neurosurgery, SUNY at Buffalo, Co-Director of Kaleida Health Stroke Center at the Gates Vascular Institute, and Co-Director of Cerebrovascular Surgery at the Department of Neurosurgery, SUNY at Buffalo.