Dr Abhijit Das is Neurologist in the Walton Centre, Liverpool, UK. He is a member of the scientific subcommittee of the British and Irish Association of Stroke Physicians (BIASP). He completed his neurology residency from SCTIMST in Trivandrum, India. He did a postdoctoral fellowship in neurorehabilitation at Kessler Foundation and Rutgers University, USA. Dr Das’ areas of interest are general neurology, vascular neurology and hyper-acute stroke therapeutics, neurorehabilitation/cognitive neurorehabilitation with a focus on applying emerging techniques of non-invasive brain stimulation (TMS/tDCS) guided by functional and structural neuroimaging (fMRI/DTI). Dr Das works closely with bioengineers and holds multiple patents in neuro-engineering with a focus on developing low-cost, point-of-care medical devices with practical application in resource-poor settings. He has received multiple grants for his research including a grant from The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. His other works involve application of artificial intelligence (AI) and systems thinking in neurology education and research. In his free time, he is an avid reader, photographer and long-distance runner.

I am a PhD research scholar in National Institute of Pharmaceutical Education and Research, Ahmedabad (NIPER-A) India. My research is focussed on stroke. In my PhD tenure, I have been trained in microsurgeries to generate rat model of ischemic stroke mainly by middle cerebral artery occlusion technique. Apart from it, I can perform essential molecular and biochemical assays to study oxidative stress, comparative histology, gene and protein expression. Till now, I have published five research articles, thirteen review articles, one book chapter, four peer reviewed abstracts and attended eight national as well as inter-national conferences and workshops. In 2019, I have been awarded senior research fellowship from Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) and in 2022, I have received IBRO-PERC travel award to present my research work in FENS Forum 2022 held in Paris, France.

Professor Stephen Davis is the Professor of Translational Neuroscience at the University of Melbourne, Director of the Melbourne Brain Centre at the Royal Melbourne Hospital. He is a Past-President of the World Stroke Organization, co-chairs the Australian Stroke Alliance and the Melbourne Mobile Stroke Unit. He has received numerous awards including the 2011 William Feinberg Award from the American Stroke Association, the 2012 Karolinska Award and the 2014 JJ Wepfer Award from the European Stroke Council, 2018 Stroke Leadership Award from the WSO and the 2019 Chinese Stroke Association International Cooperation Award. He was an inaugural Fellow in the Australian Academy of Health and Medical Sciences, 2015 and the 2017 C Miller Fisher Visiting Professor at the Massachusetts General Hospital/Harvard. He was appointed an Officer of the Order of Australia in 2021. His research is focussed on acute therapy for both ischemic stroke and intracerebral haemorrhage, particularly the use of advanced imaging in selection of therapy. He is the Principal Investigator of a MRFF grant using tranexamic acid for intracerebral hemorrhage and Co-Lead (with G Donnan) of the 2021 Frontiers MRFF grant on Pre-Hospital Stroke Care. He has an h-index of 105 and has published more than 550 peer-reviewed research papers.

I have been working as Senior Occupational Therapist specialized in adults with neurological disorders at Christian Medical College and Hospital Ludhiana, India. My keen interest is in cognitive rehabilitation and to strengthen stroke rehabilitation services in Low-middle income countries. CURRENT AFFILIATIONS: - PhD scholar, at McMaster university, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada - National Champion, for Organized Stroke care across Income Level (OSCAIL); funded by Public Health Research Institute, Hamilton, McMaster University Canada - Project Manager for AVERT DOSE Stroke Rehabilitation trial in India funded by NHMRC Australia - Research Coordinator for the Impacting Research, Innovation and Technology (IMPRINT) stroke project funded by Indian council of Medical research (ICMR)and the Ministry of Human resource Development (MHRD), India. - Guest Trainer, WHO/ SEARO Project: Technical Support for the development of stroke care improvement program in four countries in the South East Asia Region. Funded by: World Health Organization ACHIEVEMENTS: - Developed and implemented training modules on stroke rehabilitation in Bhutan, Maldives, Temor Lieste in collaboration with WHO - Travel grant for the joint European Stroke Organization and World Stroke Organization Conference (ESO-WSO 2020), to be held in Vienna, Austria on 12-15 May 2020 - “OSCAIL 2020 Meeting.” Grant, Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR), Planning and Dissemination-New Project, ($19,825 CAD). PUBLICATIONS: - 7 (4 Research articles, 3Chapters, 1 conference paper)

Jesse Dawson is a Professor of Stroke Medicine at the Institute of Cardiovascular and Medical Sciences and Associate at the School of Medicine, Dentistry and Nursing, University of Glasgow. Professor Dawson is a Consultant Physician in the Queen Elizabeth University Hospital, Glasgow. He is Clinical Lead for the Scottish Stroke Research Network and recently chaired European Stroke Organization Conference. Professor Dawson has research interests in clinical trials on prevention and rehabilitation in stroke survivors, with special focus on improving long-term outcomes.

Frank-Erik is a professor in vascular neurology with a special interest in stroke in the young and cerebral small vessel disease. He is the PI of several long-term prospective cohort studies on causes and consequences of stroke in the young (FUTURE and ODYSSEY Study) and small vessel disease (RUNDMC-study).

Deidre De Silva is a neurologist subspecialising in stroke. She is head of the neurology department at the Singapore General Hospital campus of the National Neuroscience Institute and Associate Professor with DukeNUS Medical school. She is on the board of the World Stroke Organisation, co-chairing the campaign committee and is a member of the stroke support organisation and campaign committees. She is the co-chair of the scientific programme committee and local organising committee chair for the world stroke congress 2022. She has been on the executive committee of the local stroke support organisation, the Singapore National Stroke Association. Her research interests are the Asian stroke patterns, hyperacute reperfusion treatment and post-stroke consequences. On the education front, she lead an inter-professional education group for stroke and just launched a virtual regional stroke fellowship. She is keen to improve adherence to evidence-based treatment, optimise the journey of stroke survivors in the community, value-based stroke care and better management of post stroke complications.

She is a Brazilian Stroke Neurologist, working mainly as a manager of clinical research projects. She has a Ph.D. degree in Medical Sciences focused on Health Economics at the Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul (2021). She was a SI in the RESILIENT trial, is a member of the executive committee of the RESILIENT-EXTEND trial, and a member of the steering committee of the RESILIENT EXTEND-IV and RESILIENT DIRECT-TNK trials. She is interested in supporting economic evaluations in LATAM countries to incorporate new evidence-based technologies for stroke treatment and leads a funded project by the WSO, “Unveiling the cost of acute stroke in LATAM.” She is a reviewer of essential journals in stroke neurology (PlosOne, Cerebrovascular Disease) and handling editor of the InterSECT section of STROKE journal. She has been a member of the Future Stroke Leaders program of the World Stroke Organization and a member of the Brazilian Society of Cerebrovascular Diseases, Brazilian Stroke Network, and World Stroke Organization.

Clincal PhD Student in Neurology at the Department of Neurology of the Medical University of Innsbruck, Austria. PhD Thesis: Post Stroke Osteopathy (NCT04845269)