Dr. Thomas Devlin is the national neuroscience co-director of CommonSpirit, the second largest healthcare system in the US. He is a professor of Neurology at the University of Tennessee Health Science Center and the director of the Stroke and Neuroscience Center at CHI Memorial hospital. He has a PhD in Neurobiology and received his MD from Baylor College of Medicine, neurology training at Duke and his fellowship in neurocritical care at the University of Virginia. He has been a leader in stroke clinical trials for over 20 years and has spearheaded the launch of numerous AI companies such as VIZ.AI and Nova Signal.

Dr. Dhoble is board certified in internal medicine, cardiovascular disease and interventional cardiology. In practice since 2009, Dr. Dhoble has clinical interests that include interventional cardiology, transcatheter valve repair/replacement, ASD/PFO/VSD closures, paravalvular leak closures, Left atrial appendage device closure, high-risk complex coronary interventions, catheter-directed thrombolysis for massive pulmonary embolism(PE) and peripheral artery intervention.

Dr. Francesco Diana is an Interventional Neuroradiologist, currently working in the University Hospital Ruggi d'Aragona of Salerno. He is a PhD candidate at the University of Limoges and the University of Salerno. He is mainly interested in brain and medullary arteriovenous malformations. He participated to several international congresses and is author of several scientific articles, both original investigation and reviews. He has experience in endovascular treatment of acute ischemic stroke, brain aneurysms and cerebrovascular malformations.

Dr. Abbigayle Doerr is a Board Certified Family Nurse Practitioner at Northwestern Medicine Central DuPage Hospital in the Chicago suburbs. Her clinical background includes interventional cardiology, electrophysiology, interventional radiology and neurointerventional surgery. Abby currently the Director of Interventional, Imaging and Diagnostic Cardiology and APRN. Abby is fellowship trained (2014) and boarded as an acute neurovascular practitioner, ANVP-BC. Abby received her Bachelor’s of Nursing, Master’s of Nursing: Nurse Practitioner from Northern Illinois University. She completed her Doctorate of Nursing Practice from Illinois State University in 2016 with a research focus in time to treatment in acute ischemic stroke. Abby takes special interest in nursing education and program development.

Pamela W. Duncan, PhD, PT, FAPTA, FAHA is Professor, Department of Neurology. She received her BS degree in Physical Therapy from Columbia University and a PhD in Epidemiology from the University of North Carolina. Her previous academic affiliations were with Duke University, University of Kansas, and University Florida and the Department of Veterans Affairs. She was PI of the VA Rehabilitation Outcomes Research Center and was C0-PI of the University of Kansas Pepper Center. She currently serves on the advisory board of the University of Pittsburgh Pepper Center. She joined the Wake Forest Faculty in 2011 to develop and evaluate innovative models of care to manage post-acute services for patients with medically and socially complex chronic conditions. She is the principle investigator of a PCORI funded large pragmatic trial to implement and evaluate an evidenced-based COMprehensive Post-Acute Stroke Services (COMPASS) model. This model of care combines CMS transitional care services provided by advanced practice providers (APP) and early supported discharge services coordinated by the APPs to develop with patients and families actionable care plans. Standardized assessments of the social and functional determinants of health are used to individualize care plans to manage blood pressure and stroke risk factors, manage medications, increase physical activity, reduce falls risk, optimize functional recovery, self-management of health and optimize access to primary care and community based services. The cluster-randomized trial included over 40 North Carolina Hospitals and over 10,000 patients. The COMPASS transitional care intervention, supporting digital applications, and quality performance measures emerged from front line clinical practice at the Wake Forest Baptist Health Comprehensive Stroke Center. The evaluation of this intervention in a pragmatic trial continues to refine our delivery of post- acute stroke care at Wake Forest and will support scalability of .our applications and models of post- acute care to other health systems. In collaboration with Dr. Cheryl Bushnell, Dr Duncan and colleagues have received funding for a 30 million dollar multi-center, patient-randomized control trial This award will fund the first study of its kind to test two interventions to lower blood pressure in the first six months following a stroke—one utilizes telehealth, individualized care planning, and behavioral health coaching to manage physical activity, medication management, and diet, and the other is in-person clinic management. 200 plus publications ( H-Index 62)