Souvik Sen received his graduate medical degree (1990) from University of Calcutta, Master of Public Health degree (2009) in Epidemiology from the Gillings School of Public Health at the University of North Carolina (UNC), Chapel Hill, and Master of Science degree (1993) in Cardiovascular Pharmacology from Wayne State University in Detroit, Michigan. He completed his Neurology Residency (1997) at Temple University in Philadelphia and his Post-Doctoral fellowship (1998) in Cerebrovascular Diseases (Stroke) from the Johns Hopkin?s Medical Institution in Baltimore, Maryland.

In 2002, Dr. Sen founded the Stroke Center at UNC Chapel Hill. In 2010, he joined as the founding Chair and Tenured Professor of the Department of Neurology at the University of South Carolina School of Medicine. From 2018-2020, he served as President of the South Carolina Neurology Association.

Dr. Sen has received several grants from the National Institutes of Health (NIH). He is currently the principal investigator in the NIH-funded PREMIERS study, an ongoing randomized clinical trial investigating the role of treatment of periodontal disease in secondary stroke prevention. He is currently an affiliated faculty for the UNC Center for Oral Systemic Disease