Dr Áine Merwick is consultant neurologist / Honorary Clinical Senior Lecturer at Cork University Hospital/University College Cork, Ireland. She is a member of Stroke Clinical Trial Network Ireland Management Group . She previously worked as a consultant neurologist with a special interest in vascular neurology at Chelsea and Westminster Hospital, London and held an honorary contract at the National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery, Queen Square, London She completed fellowship training in metabolic medicine, with a focus on inherited neuro-metabolic disorder and vascular neurology at the National Hospital for Neurology Neurosurgery, London following her neurology training in Ireland. She lectures on the University College London ( UCL) stroke degree, and is a graduate to the MSc degree program at Danube University Krems, Austria. Her research interest include TIA epidemiology, Risk prediction, and bio-markers.