Dr. Hsin-Hsi Cynthia Tsai is a neurology attending physician in National Taiwan University Hospital Beihu Branch. Her research interests and clinical specialty mainly focus on diagnosis and prognosis in intracerebral hemorrhage as well as molecular and functional imaging in cerebral small vessel disease and vascular cognitive impairment.

Doctor Tsai is a stroke neurologist performing intra-arterial thrombectomy for hyperacute large artery occlusion patients. And in the intensive care unit, he takes care of patients with severe stroke, status epilepticus, or severe central nervous system infection. Doctor Tsai has won high reward in the improvement of patients, including the regaining consciousness. In the intensive care unit, he often says to patients, “Our goal is your being able to walk back home without others’ assistance.”

Dr. Anderson Chun On TSANG obtained his medical degree at the University of Hong Kong in 2010, after which he joined the faculty as Clinical Assistant Professor in the Department of Surgery. He completed neurosurgery training in Queen Mary Hospital, Hong Kong, and specialized in endovascular neurosurgery and stroke treatment. He was awarded the Health and Medical Research Fund Research Fellowship Scheme to pursue a Fellowship in Interventional Neuroradiology at Toronto Western Hospital. As an academic neurosurgeon, he published more than 80 peer-reviewed papers focused on acute stroke treatment, endovascular interventions for aneurysms, AVMs, and large vessel occlusion, and clinical neurosurgery. He is also committed to improving the systems of care of hyperacute stroke in Hong Kong, and initiated cross-specialty projects with ambulance services, statisticians, computer scientists in pre-hospital stroke diagnosis. Ongoing research projects include clinical studies on large vessel occlusion thrombectomy, intracranial atherosclerosis, cerebral aneurysm, and intracranial hemorrhage.

Georgios K. Tsivgoulis, MD, PhD, MSc, FESO, FEAN, FAAN Professor & Chairman, Second Department of Neurology, National & Kapodistrian University of Athens, Athens, Greece Visiting Professor & Director of Stroke Research, Department of Neurology, University of Tennessee Health Science Center, Memphis, TN, USA Dr Georgios Tsivgoulis has graduated with honors from the School of Medicine of Aristotelion University of Thessaloniki. He has completed his residency in the First Department of Neurology of National & Kapodistrian University of Athens. He completed his PhD with honors in the School of Medicine of National & Kapodistrian University of Athens. He has completed a two-year Stroke/Neurosonology Fellowship in the Department of Neurology of the University of Alabama at Birmingham. He currently serves as Professor of Neurology and Chairman in the Second Department of Neurology in National & Kapodistrian University of Athens, School of Medicine. He is also the Director of Neurosonology Laboratory, the Director of Resident Training and Cerebrovascular Fellowship Program in his Department. Dr Tsivgoulis is also a Visiting Professor of Neurology and Director of Stroke Research, in the Department of Neurology in The University of Tennessee Health Science Center, Memphis, TN. He is a Fellow of European Stroke Organization (ESO), European Academy of Neurology and American Academy of Neurology. His research interests focus on acute reperfusion therapies in acute ischemic stroke, applications of neurosonology in cerebrovascular diseases, secondary stroke prevention and clinical trial methodology. Dr Tsivgoulis serves as Vice-President of the European Stroke Organization (ESO). He is member of ESO Guideline Board and serves in ESO Education Committee. He has also served in the International Stroke Conference Scientific Program Committee, and European Stroke Organization Conference (ESOC) 2019 and ESOC 2020 educational committees. He is currently serving in ESOC 2021 Program Committee. He is a member of the writing group of ESO Stroke Action Plan 2018-2030 and ESO guidelines for intravenous thrombolysis. He is an Associate Editor in Therapeutic Advances in Neurological Disorders and a Section Editor in “Stroke” Journal. He has served as Associate Editor in Journal of Neuroimaging. He is the Editor of Greek Journal “Nevrologia” and General Secretary of the Hellenic Society of Cerebrovascular Diseases. He currently serves as President of the Hellenic Neurological Society. He is also SITS and ANGELS National Coordinator for Greece. He has served as National Coordinator and International Steering Committee member in multiple phase II & III RCTs in acute stroke and in secondary stroke prevention. Dr Tsivgoulis has authored >550 papers and 16 book chapters. He has acted as Reviewer in >60 International Medical Journals presented 153 invited lectures in International Scientific Conferences and Institutions. His research has received >17.000 citations (Google Scholar) and his H-index is 66 (Google Scholar). Dr Tsivgoulis has been the recipient of international awards including the European Stroke Organization Scientific Excellence Award and competitive grants from both academic institutions and industry. Dr Tsivgoulis is married and has one daughter. He enjoys spending his free time with family at home.

Maria Assunção Tuna is a Senior Clinical Research Fellow at the Centre for Prevention of Stroke and Dementia, Nuffield Department of Clinical Neurosciences, University of Oxford and Consultant in Neurology and Stroke in the Buckinghamshire Healthcare NHS Trust. She was previously a Consultant in Neurology at Centro Hospitalar do Porto, where she led the Hyperacute Stroke Unit. Dr Tuna studied medicine at Instituto de Ciencias Biomedicas Abel Salazar, University of Porto. She was awarded first prize in clinical epidemiology by the Lisbon Society of Medical Science for her master’s thesis on prognosis of transient neurological attacks and was subsequently selected for the Doctoral Programme for Physicians of the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation. She undertook a doctorate in Clinical Neurosciences at the University of Oxford (‘A Population-Based Study of Transient Neurological Attacks: Incidence, Clinical Characteristics, Investigation, Aetiology and Prognosis’) under the supervision of Professor Peter Rothwell. Dr Tuna’s research in the Oxford Vascular Study focuses on the diagnosis, investigation and prognosis of typical and atypical transient ischaemic attacks and other transient neurological symptoms, to prevent stroke recurrence.

I specialise in motor neurorehabilitation and neuromodulation. Recent clinical trials have focussed on using robotics and brain stimulation in stroke and Parkinson's disease. I follow a translational neuroscience approach to applying well developed mechanistic understanding to designing interventions.