100+ Stroke Champions (and counting) over more than two decades
For almost 25 years, we have trained over stroke neurologists as stroke champions. As of 2023 we have trained well over 100 fellows from 21 countries around the world. Below is a list of these doctors and where they are currently working.
2001
Philip A. Barber
Associate Professor
University of Calgary
Calgary, Alberta
Canada
Michael D. Hill
Professor
University of Calgary
President, Canadian Neurological Sciences Federation
Calgary, Alberta
Canada
2003
Anna Tomanek
Family Physician
Cochrane Primary Care Centre
Cochrane, Alberta
Canada
2004
James Kennedy
Associate Professor of Geratology & Stroke Medicine
Radcliffe Department of Medicine
John Radcliffe Hospital
Oxford
United Kingdom
Shelagh B. Coutts
Professor
University of Calgary
Deputy Chair, Research Committee, Canadian Stroke Consortium
Calgary, Alberta
Canada
Alexis Gagnon
Stroke Neurologist
Le Centre de sante et de service sociaux de Gatineau
Gatineau, Quebec
Canada
Nicolas Weir
Consultant Neurologist
University Hospital Southampton NHS Trust
Southampton, Hampshire
United Kingdom
2005
Vanessa Palumbo
Consultant Stroke Neurologist
Careggi University Hospital
Firenze
Italy
Jayanta Roy
Director of Stroke Program and Senior Consultant in Neurology
Institute of Neurosciences
Kolkata, West Bengal
India
Jean-Martin Boulanger
Chief of Neurology, Associate Professor of Neurology
Charles LeMoyne Hospital, Sherbrooke University
Greenfield Park, Quebec
Canada
2006
Suresh Subramaniam
Clinical Associate Professor
University of Calgary
Calgary, Alberta
Canada
Imanuel Dzialowski
Director, Assistant Professor
ELBLAND Centre of Neurorehabilitation
Grossenhain, Saxony
Germany
PN Sylaja
Professor of Neurology
Comprehensive Stroke Care Program
Past president, Indian Stroke Association
Sree Chitra Thirunal Institute of Medical Sciences and Technology
Thiruvabnabnthapurum, Kerala
India
2007
Youngbin Choi
Staff Neurologist
Providence Health
Olympia, Washington
USA
Volker Püetz
Consultant Physician
University Clinics Dresden
Department of Neurology
Dresden Vascular Centre
Dresden
Germany
Ali Al-Khaathami
Consultant Neurologist
National Guard Hospital
Riyadh
Saudi Arabia
Firosh Khan
Assistant Professor
Department of Neurology
Amala Institute of Medical Sciences
Thrissur, Kerala
India
2008
Albert Jin
Associate Professor
Kingston Health Science Centre
Kingston, Ontario,
Canada
Cynthia Resende Campos Herrera
Vascular Neurologist, Medical Director
Rede Mario Gatti Healthcare Network
Campinas, Sao Paulo
Brazil
Mohamed Alzawahmah
Consultant of Stroke and Critical Care Neurology
King Faisal Specialty Hospital and Research Center
Riyadh
Saudi Arabia
Alexandre Y. Poppe
Clinical Associate Professor
Chair, CSC National Stroke Fellowship Certification Program Committee
CHUM Neurovascular Health Program
Centre Hospitalier de l'Universite de Montréal (CHUM)
Montréal, Québec
Canada
Email: alexandre.poppe.chum@ssss.gouv.qc.ca
2009
Talip Asil
Consultant Neurologist
King Hamad University Hospital
Muharraq
Bahrain
Dar Dowlatshahi
Deputy Chair, Canadian Stroke Consortium
Professor
University of Ottawa
Ottawa, Ontario
Canada
Pablo Garcia Bermejo
Interventional Neurologist
John Hunter Hospital
Newcastle, New South Wales
Australia
Jattinder Khaira
Specialist Registrar in Geriatric & General Internal Medicine
West Bromwich
United Kingdom
2010
Nandavar Shobha
Consultant Neurologist and Stroke Physician
Bangalore Neuro Centre, Manipal Hospitals
Bangalore, Karnataka
India
Rohit Bhatia
Professor
President, Indian Stroke Association
Department of Neurology
All India Institute of Medical Sciences
New Delhi
India
Email: rohitbhatia71@yahoo.com
Ana I. Calleja Sanz
Stroke Neurologist and Associate Professor
Universitary Clinical Hospital
Valladolid, Spain
Pawan Ojha
Consultant Neurologist
Associate Professor Neurology and Unit Head
Grant Medical College
Mumbai, Maharashtra
India
2011
T. Dion Fung
Neurologist
Neurology Department
Kaiser Permanente Medical Group and Fontana Medical Center
Fontana, California
USA
Sanjith Aaron
Professor
Department of Neurological Science
Christian Medical College Hospital
Vellore, Tamil Nadu
India
Mohammed Almekhlafi
Associate Professor
Director, Stroke Unit
University of Calgary
Calgary, Alberta
Canada
Negar Asdaghi
Associate Professor of Neurology
Univeristy of Miami Miller School of Medicine
Miami, Florida
USA
2012
Simerpreet Bal
Clinical Assistant Professor
Calgary Stroke Program and Neurology
University of Calgary
Calgary, Alberta
Canada
Jose Andres Venegas-Torres
Staff Neurologist and Associate Professor
Specialty Hospital # 71 Instituto Mexicano del Seguro Social
Torreon, Coahuila
Mexico
Marie-Christine Camden
Clinical Assistant Professeur/Stroke Neurologist
CHU de Québec - Hôpital de l'Enfant-Jésus
Québec City, Québec
Canada
2013
Sachin Mishra
Staff Neurologist/Stroke Specialist
Department of Clinical Neurosciences
University of Alberta Hospital & Royal Alexandra Hospital
Edmonton, Alberta
Canada
Vivek Nambiar
Associate Professor
Division of Stroke, Department of Neurology
Center of Neuroscience
Amrita Institute Medical Sciences
Kochi, Kerala
India
Sweta Adatia
Neurologist and Medical Director
Arabian Healthcare, RAK Hospital
UAE
Amjad Alseraya
Internal Medicine Consultant, Strokologist & Assistant Professor
King Abdulaziz Medical City
King Saud bin Abdulaziz University for Health Sciences
Riyadh, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
Michel Shamy
Assistant Professor / Attending neurologist / Associate Scientist
University of Ottawa / Ottawa Hospital / Ottawa Hospital Research Institute
Chair, Ethics Committee, Canadian Stroke Consortium
Ottawa, Ontario
Canada
Jennifer Mandzia
Assistant Professor
University of Western Ontario
Chair, Membership Committee, Canadian Stroke Consortium
London, Ontario
Canada
Jamsheed Desai
Assistant Clinical Professor, McMaster University
Stroke and Neuromuscular Physician, Trillium Health Partners
Medical Director, Trillium Neurology Consultants
Trilliium Neurology Consultants and Trillium Health Partners
Mississauga, Ontario
Canada
Myles Horton
Neurologist
Royal Columbian Hospital
New Westminister, British Columbia
Canada
2014
Veronique Dubuc
Clinical Associate Professor of Neurology
Université de Montréal
Montréal, Québec
Canada
Tapuwa Musuka
Neurologist
Fiona Stanley Hospital and St John of God Hospital Murdoch
Perth, Western Australia
Australia
Philip Choi
Stroke Neurologist
Eastern Health
Austin Health & Victorian Stroke Telemedicine
Melbourne
Australia
Thalia Field
Associate Professor of Neurology
University of British Columbia
Vancouver Stroke Program
Vancouver, British Columbia
Canada
2015
Anurag Trivedi
Assistant Professor
Department of Medicine (Section of Neurology)
Winnipeg, Manitoba
Canada
Evgenia Klourfeld
Neurologist
Alberta Neurologic Institute
Calgary, Alberta
Canada
Dilip Singh
Assistant Professor
Augusta University, Medical College of Georgia
Augusta, Georgia
USA
Sarah Blayney
Consultant Physician (Geriatrics & General Medicine)
University Hospitals Plymouth NHS Trust
Plymonth, Devon
UK
Unuigbojee (Oje) Imoukhuede
Attending Neurologist
Red Deer Regional Hospital Centre
Red Deer, Alberta
Canada
2016
Charlotte Zerna
PhD Researcher of the Year 2020, Hotchkiss Brain Institute
Neurology Resident
Dresden, Germany
Sadanand Dey
Consultant Neurologist and Stroke Specialist
Apollo Gleneagles Hospital
Kolkata, West Bengal
India
2017
Brett Graham
Assistant Professor and Stroke Neurologist
Co-Chair, Education Committee, Canadian Stroke Consortium
Saskatoon, Saskatchewan
Canada
Stephen van Gaal
Clinical Assistant Professor
University of British Columbia
Vancouver, British Columbia
Canada
Prasanna Eswaradass
Neurology Resident
University of Tennessee
Memphis, Tennessee
USA
Aimen Moussaddy
Clinical Assistant Professor
Chair, Examination Subcommittee, Fellowship Certification
Canadian Stroke Consortium
Montréal, Québec
Canada
Debabrata Chakraborty
Consultant Neurologist and Stroke Specialist
Apollo Gleneagles Hospital
Kolkata, West Bengal
India
Nicholas Maraj
Acting Consultant
North Central Regionall Health Authority
CARE Clinic and Medical Centre
Trinidad & Tobago
2018
Amith Sitram
Consultant in Neurology and Stroke
NHS, Greater Glasgow and Clyde
Honorary Lecturer
Queen Elizabeth University Hospital
Glasgow. Scotland
United Kingdom
Shuo Chen
Neurologist, Clinical Assistant Professor
University of British Columbia
New Westminster, British Columbia
Canada
Andrew Lockey
Staff Neurologist
Victoria General Hospital
Victoria, British Columbia
Canada
Ria Asuncion
Neurology Consultant
Angeles University Foundation Medical Center
Angeles City, Pampanga
Phillipines
2019
Ericka Teleg
Neurologist
Grand River Hospital
Kitchener, Ontario
Canada
Ravinder Jeet Singh
Assistant Professor, Northern Ontario School of Medicine
Stroke Neurologist, Health Sciences North
Medical Director, Northeastern Ontario Stroke Network
Sudbury, Ontario
Canada
Abdulaziz (Aziz) Al Sultan
Neurologist
Royal Columbian Hospital
New Westminister, British Columbia
Canada
Darshan Doshi
Consultant Neurologist
Lilavati Hospital & MRC
Lilavati Hospital and Research Centre
Mumbai, Maharashtra
India
darshankdoshi@gmail.com
Ondrej Volny
Scientific Director, University Hospital Ostrava
Vice Chair for Research
University Hospital Ostrava
Ostrava, Czech Republic
Piyush Ojha
Neurointervention Fellow
Medanta - The Medicity
Gurugram, Haryana
India
2020
Dominic Tse
Clinical Assistant Professor
Vancouver General Hospital
University of British Columbia
Vancouver, British Columbia
Canada
Martha Marko
Fellow of Canadian Stroke Consortium - Expert (FCSC-E)
Neurology Resident
Vienna General Hospital
Vienna
Austria
Sanchea Wasyliw
Fellow of Canadian Stroke Consortium - Expert (FCSC-E)
Assistant Professor
Neurology
College of Medicine
Saskatoon, Saskatchewan
Canada
Shorog Althubait
Neuro-interventional Fellow
King Fahad Medical City
Riyadh
Saudi Arabia
2021
Ankur Wadhwa
Assistant Professor
Department of Medicine (Section of Neurology)
Health Sciences Centre, University of Manitoba
Winnipeg, Manitoba
Canada
Aravind Ganesh
Fellow of Canadian Stroke Consortium - Expert (FCSC-E)
Assistant Professor
Calgary, Alberta
Canada
Matthew Boyko
Fellow of Canadian Stroke Consortium - Expert (FCSC-E)
Neurologist
Kelowna General Hospital,
Kelowna, British Columbia
Canada
Raed Joundi
Fellow of Canadian Stroke Consortium - Scholar (FCSC-S)
Assistant Professor
Population Health Research Institute
McMaster University
Hamilton, Ontario
Canada
Emma Harrison
Interventional Neurology Fellow
Royal Prince Alfred Hospital
Sydney, NSW
Australia
Salman Mansoor
MRCPI, MRCPS (Glasgow), FEBN, FCSC-E
Consultant, Stroke Medicine & Neurology
East and North Hertfordshire NHS Trust
United Kingdom
Surbhi Chaturvedi
Fellow of Canadian Stroke Consortium - Expert (FCSC-E)
Consultant Neurologist and Stroke Physician
Brains Neuro Spine Hospital
Bangalore
India
Katie Lin
Certificate - Canadian Stroke Consortium (C-CSC)
Emergency Medicine
Associate Research Director, Clinical Lecturer
Department of Emergency Medicine
University of Calgary
Calgary, Alberta
Canada
2022
Chrysi Bogiatzi
Fellow of Canadian Stroke Consortium- Expert (FCSC-E)
Assistant Professor
Western University
London, Ontario
Canada
Kimia Ghavami
Fellow of Canadian Stroke Consortium- Expert (FCSC-E)
Stroke Neurologist
Vancouver General Hospital
Vancouver, British Columbia
Canada
Sherry Hu
Whitney Barham Stroke Post-Doctoral Fellowship 2021-22
Fellow of Canadian Stroke Consortium- Expert (FCSC-E)
Assistant Professor
Dalhousie University
Halifax, Nova Scotia
Canada
Andrew Micieli
Fellow of Canadian Stroke Consortium - Expert (FCSC-E)
Neurologist
Trillium Health Partners, Mississauga ON
St.Michael's Hospital
Toronto, Ontario
Canada
Margaret Moores
Fellow of Canadian Stroke Consortium - Expert (FCSC-E)
Neurologist
Kelowna General Hospital
Kelowna, British Columbia
Canada
Nishita Singh
Fellow of Canadian Stroke Consortium - Scholar (FCSC-S)
The Heart and Stroke and Research
Manitoba Chair in Clinical Stroke Research
Assistant Professor
University of Manitoba
Winnipeg, Manitoba
Canada
2023
Babawale Arabambi
Fellow of Canadian Stroke Consortium - Expert (FCSC-E)
Clinical Assistant Professor
University of Manitoba
Winnipeg, Manitoba
Canada
Akshay Deepak
Fellow of Canadian Stroke Consortium - Expert (FCSC-E)
Stroke Neurologist
Sri Ramachandra Medical College and Research Institute
Chennai, India
Shashank Nagendra
Fellow of Canadian Stroke Consortium - Expert (FCSC-E)
Assistant Professor
Department of Neurology
Grant Medical College and Sir JJ Group of Hospitals
Mumbai
India
2024
Vivian Fu
Fellow of Canadian Stroke Consortium - Scholar (FCSC-S)
Research Fellow
University of Edinburgh
Edinburgh, Scotland
United Kingdom
Diego Gutiérrez
Fellow of Canadian Stroke Consortium - Expert (FCSC-E)
Adjunct Instructor
School of Medicine
Pontifical Catholic University of Chile
Santiago
Chile
Madawi Ismail
Acute Medicine and Stroke Consultant Physician
Princess Royal Hospital
Kings' College NHS Trust
London
United Kingdom
Diana Kim
Fellow of Canadian Stroke Consortium - Expert (FCSC-E)
Stroke Neurologist
Kelowna General Hospital
Kelowna, British Columbia
Canada
Ryan Muir
Fellow of Canadian Stroke Consortium - Scholar (FCSC-S)
Assistant Professor
University of Toronto
Toronto, Ontario
Canada
Sucharita Ray
Fellow of Canadian Stroke Consortium - Expert (FCSC-E)
Assistant Professor
Postgraduate Institute of Medical Education and Research
Chandigarh
India
Marie-Andrée Panzini
Fellow of Canadian Stroke Consortium - Scholar (FCSC-S)
Stroke Neurologist
Centre Hospitalier de l'Universite de Montréal (CHUM)
Montréal, Québec
Canada
Ivy Anne Sebastian
Associate Professor
Department of Neurology
Christian Medical College and Hospital
Ludhiana, Punjab
India