The Calgary Stroke Fellowship Program

Learn more about our program and the educational opportunities available.

Hear what our former fellows have to say about the Calgary Stroke Fellowship Program.

See how many stroke champions around the world have a connection to the Calgary Stroke Program.

Read about the research and papers published by our former fellows and our current faculty.

The Calgary Stroke Fellowship Program has evolved into one of the premier programs for subspecialty training in stroke internationally. Since 1998, our program has trained over 90 stroke physicians to be stroke champions in their area. The global impact of this training is now transforming stroke care throughout Canada and other countries, such as India, Germany, Saudi Arabia, Spain and the United Kingdom.

With 15 stroke neurologists, including eight academic clinicians scientists, we are able to provide comprehensive integrated services in the area of acute stroke, stroke management (with a 35 bed stroke unit), stroke rehabilitation, stroke prevention and stroke research. We do not provide any fellowship training for neurointervention at this time.

Having extensive integrated stroke management faculty, staff and support personnel within one program has been the hallmark of Calgary's continued success. Our program is currently the only fully accredited program in Canada, and has helped to establish many of the "best practices" for Canadian stroke care , and elsewhere.

The program is also proud of our collaboration with the Hotchkiss Brain Institute, including the Whitney Barham Stroke Post-Doctoral Fellowship — generously donated by the Barham family — which supports a post-doctoral award in the area of stroke research, and the Calgary Clinical Stroke Fellowship.

The Calgary Stroke Program offers medical doctors the opportunity to observe the stroke program in action. The observer will follow the acute team as they manage acute cases, observe the care and management in the Stroke Unit, observe our faculty and staff in the Stroke Prevention Clinic, and participate in all our educational activities (Tuesday pm journal club; Wednesday pm fellow educational half day; Thursday morning case rounds; Thursday noon academic lecture).

Observerships are available during the months of January to June and September to November. Only two observers are accepted for the same time period. The cost is $125.00 per week (or part thereof) for a maximum of eight weeks. There is a non-refundable administration fee of $75.00 included in the cost if the observer has to cancel prior to start date.

In addition to the observership form (see tab on this page), the observer must provide immunization records that show vaccinations for Rubella and Covid-19. A police check is also required for anyone wishing an observership for a period beyond one week.

If you are interested in an observership, please fill out the observership form and mail it to emily.collins@ahs.ca along with a copy of your CV. Your request will be checked against our schedule and we will respond to you by email within a few days.