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Job title: Professor of Stroke Medicine and Consultant Physician
Prof Jesse Dawson isProfessor of Stroke Medicine and Consultant Physician at the Queen Elizabeth University Hospital in Glasgow. His research portfolio includes prevention and rehabilitation clinical trials in stroke survivors, with main interest in improving the long-term outcome after stroke. Prof Dawson is the NHS Research Scotland lead for stroke research and sits on the editorial board of… View more
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Electrophysiology & Arrhythmia

Atrial Fibrillation

Stroke

Stroke Prevention in Atrial Fibrillation

Devices

Job title: Director, Center for Arrhythmia Research Jules J. Reingold Professor of Electrophysiology Professor of Medicine (Cardiology) and Preventive Medicine
Dr Rod SPassman is a cardiac electrophysiologist, a clinician specializing in heart rhythm disorders. He joined Feinberg School of Medicine in 1998 as an assistant professor of Medicine in the Division of Cardiologyand was awarded the title of full professor in 2013. He also holds an appointment in the Department of Preventive Medicine.Dr Passman's main interests arecardiac monitoring and stroke… View more
Prof Georgios Tsivgoulis M.D., Ph.D., MSc, FESO, FEAN is Professor of Neurology and Vice-Chairman in the Department of Neurology at the National & Kapodistrian University of Athens, School of Medicine in Greece. He is the Divisional Director of Cerebrovascular Diseases, Director of the Neurosonology Laboratory and Director of Residential Training and the Cerebrovascular Fellowship Program. He is… View more
Author(s): Peter O’Kane Added: 1 year ago
Can Interventional Cardiologists Help Deliver the UK Mechanical Thrombectomy Interventional Programme for Patients with Acute Ischaemic Stroke? ICR3 Editor-in-Chief, Dr Peter O'Kane, explains the importance of the newly-published discussion paper from the British Cardiovascular Interventional Society. View more
Jeff Healey serves as the director of arrhythmia services and holds the position of associate professor of medicine at McMaster University in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada. As a clinical trialist and member of the Population Health Research Institute, Dr. Healey completed his clinical training in cardiology and electrophysiology at the University of Ottawa Heart Institute. He furthered his academic… View more
Job title: Cardiologist
Prof Wolfram Doehner is aCardiologist andProfessor of Interdisciplinary Stroke Research atCharité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Berlin, DE. He was a member of the ESC programme committee (2014-2020) and was Chairman (2018-2020) of the ESC Council on Stroke. ProfDoehner's research focus is the peripheral aspect, and particularly, the skeletal muscle structure and metabolism in stroke… View more
Author(s): Stefan Bertog , Marius Hornung , Jennifer Franke , et al Added: 3 years ago
Strokes are frequently devastating events with potentially fatal complications and significant disability, resulting in a major impact on the affected individual’s quality of life. It is well accepted that the presence of carotid stenosis is responsible for 20–30% of strokes.1 Great effort has therefore been invested in the search for treatments to reduce the stroke risk attributed to it… View more
Author(s): Philippe Garot , Bertrand Cormier , Jérôme Horvilleur Added: 3 years ago
Left atrial appendage closure (LAAC) has been shown to be non-inferior to warfarin in decreasing the risk of stroke and systemic embolism in patients with AF.1–3 In addition to peri-procedural complications (tamponade, device migration, procedure-related stroke or embolism, and vascular complications), there has been growing concern recently about the occurrence of late complications, especially… View more
Tze-Fan Chao is an Associate Professor at National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University, Taiwan and attending physician at the Division of Cardiology, Taipei Veterans General Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan. He was trained in medicine and cardiology at the Taipei Veterans General Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan. Dr Chao’s clinical interest is cardiac electrophysiology, including implantation of permanent… View more