Invited Faculty

Chen-June Seak

Chang Gung Memorial Hospital, Taiwan

Chen-June Seak

Chang Gung Memorial Hospital, Taiwan

Dr. Chen-June Seak is the Head of Department and Associate Professor of Department of Emergency Medicine, New Taipei Municipal Tucheng Hospital (Tucheng CGMH), Taiwan. Since 2016, Dr. Seak has been appointed the Secretary-General of Taiwan Society of Emergency Medicine (TSEM). During his tenure, he has been involving in the development and implementation of Taiwan policies related to emergency medicine. A board-certified specialist in emergency medicine, intensive care, clinical toxicology and hyperbaric medicine, Dr. Seak is passionate about education with keen research interests in emergency department scoring systems, methods of early risk stratification, clinical toxicology, health economics and outcomes research. He has been awarded various research grants by Ministry of Science and Technology of Taiwan and Chang Gung Medical Foundation. He has co-authored over 80 papers in various international peer-reviewed, indexed scientific journals, local journals and chapters of textbook to date, and is the associate editor of Journal of Acute Medicine.

In 2018, Dr. Seak established and led the Stratification to Prevent Overcrowding Taskforce (SPOT) for early risk stratification and rapid response at CGMH emergency departments. This initiative is recognized with multiple awards including Academic Award of TSEM Annual Congress and Academic Award of Society of Emergency and Critical Care Medicine Annual Congress. In addition, Dr. Seak was also awarded the National Healthcare Quality Award for numerous years, the National Innovation Award and the Platinum Award of Taiwan Innotech Expo 2022. Dr. Seak is also a 7 times recipient of the Best Teaching Award of CGMH.
Vorapun Senanarong

Siriraj Hospital, Mahidol University, Thailand

Vorapun Senanarong

Siriraj Hospital, Mahidol University, Thailand

Qualifications: BSc., MD, DTM&H(London), FRCP(London)

Trained in Geriatric Medicine at Newcastle University , UK. Fellow in Behavioral Neurology and dementia at UCLA

Designations & Affiliations:

Division of Neurology, Department of Medicine, Faculty of Medicine Siriraj Hospital, Mahidol University

Executive Committee of Neurological Society of Thailand

Executive Committee of Dementia Association of Thailand

Executive Committee of Thai Women Medical Association of Thailand, under HM Royal Patronage

Former Expert for WHO on International Classification of Diseases 11: Neurocognitive disorders

Publications: More than 50 international publications including journals and book chapters

Areas of Specialization: Behavioral Neurology, Dementiology, Geriatric Neurology

Achievements & Awards:

Fogarty International Research Collaboration Award (FIRCA) 2004

More than 10 international keynote speakers and orations

Appreciation from Thai Woman Medical Association for her honor 2022
Vijay Sharma

National University of Singapore, Singapore

Vijay Sharma

National University of Singapore, Singapore

Dr. Vijay K Sharma is Associate Professor at National University of Singapore, Singapore and Senior Consultant Neurologist at National University Hospital, Singapore. He is the current recipient of the prestigious Senior Clinician Scientist Award from National Medical Research Council, Ministry of Health, Singapore.

He has published more than 380 peer reviewed papers in reputed scientific journals including New England Journal of Medicine, The Lancet, Lancet Neurology, Annals of Neurology, Circulation, Neurology and Stroke etc. He has published 2 books and co-authored 43 book chapters. His current H-index is 53.

He is member of Stroke Guidelines Committee at World Stroke Organization and Co-Chair of WSO oversight committee for International Journal of Stroke. He serves as Regional Advisor for the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburg, United Kingdom. He is Associate Editor for Frontiers in Neurology, BMC Neurology and British Journal of Medicine and Medical Research. He serves on the editorial boards of many scientific journals including Stroke, Journal of Neuroimaging, Journal of Stroke etc. His research interests include acute stroke, intracranial stenosis and advanced applications of cerebrovascular ultrasonography in cerebrovascular ischemia.
Arvind Sharma

National University of Singapore, Singapore

Arvind Sharma

National University of Singapore, Singapore

DR. ARVIND SHARMA
Head – Dept Of Neurology & Stroke Specialist Zydus Hospitals, Ahmedabad
Assist. Professor Neurology, NHL Medical College & SVP Hospital , Ahmedabad
SECRETARY, INDAIN STROKE ASSOCIATION (ISA)
BOARD OF DIRECTOR WORLD STROKE ORGANISATION (2022-2026)
VICE PRESIDENT SOCIETY OF NEUROSONOLOGY (SON)
DIRECTOR BRAIN HEART FOUNDATION

FELLOWSHIPS:

One year of Clinical Fellowship in Stroke and Neurosonology from University of Alberta, Canada

Trained in Cerebrovascular ultrasonography at National University Hospital, Singapore

AWARDS & RECOGNITIONS:

McKinney Award: American Society of Neuroimaging (ASN), 2011, Florida, USA

PUBLICATIONS: National and International publications in peer reviewed scientific journals.

MEMBERSHIPS OF ORGANISATIONS:

President ANBAI (Association of National Board Accredited Institutions) – Gujarat

Founder Member and Treasurer Society Of Neurosonology (SON)

Executive member of Academy of Neurologists of Ahmedabad(ANA)

Executive member & Treasurer of Indian Stroke Association (ISA) 2018 – 2020

Director Brain – Heart Foundation

Life member of Indian Academy of Neurology (IAN), Indian Stroke Association (ISA) & NSI

Member of World Stroke Organization (WSO) & European Stroke Organization (ESO)
Shakti Shrestha

The University of Queensland, Australia

Shakti Shrestha

The University of Queensland, Australia

Shakti is a Research focused academic staff at the School of Pharmacy, The University of Queensland in Australia, on a Medical Research Future Fund project to improve quality use of medicine for Residential Aged Care.

Shakti is an active member of Nepal Stroke Association since 2017 and have been involved in promoting and conducting stroke research in Nepal since 2014. He was one of the organizing members and keynote speakers of the 1st International Stroke Conference held in Kathmandu (Nepal) in 2017. He has also been invited as a speaker on a number of Stroke related Clinical Medical Education in Nepal which are mostly participated by health care professionals and consumer groups. He also led, successfully completed and published the first community-based stroke prevalence study in Western Nepal in 2018 with a team of multidisciplinary stroke team and international collaborators.

Shakti has research expertise in the field of geriatric and palliative medication use and safety, quality use of medicine, pharmacy practice and health service. He has research methodology expertise on systematic review, clinical research design, predictive model development, meta-analysis and medical statistics.
Padma Srivastava

All India Instiute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi, India

Padma Srivastava

All India Instiute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi, India

The Government of India awarded her the fourth highest civilian honor of the Padma Shri, in 2016, for her contributions to medical science, Excellence in Innovations for Health Care Improvement by NCD, Rajasthan for the year 2016, awarded the National Award for Science and Technology Communication from DST, Govt. of India for the year 2017, nomination to WOMEN in STROKE for the year 2022 by the WSA and WSO, WINNER of the prestigious METRODORA Awards for women in science excellence award by the International Alliance of Patients Organizations ( IAPO) for the year 2022, Membership to The Indian Academy of Science Communication under the aegis of NCSTC, DST, Govt. of India, 2022.

.Her research interest is primarily Stroke, Vascular Dementia and Multiple Sclerosis. She is the National Co-ordinator for the SITS-NEW registry for thrombolysis for stroke data from India, the National Co-ordinator for the SITS-SEARS registry with the Karolinska University and is an active member of the National Stroke Surveillance program for India, the National Stroke Registry, the National Prevention Programs for Noncommunicable Diseases of India, Stroke delivery in India and is the author of Management of Stroke Guidelines and Tele stroke Guidelines for India. She is on board as task force member for several programs including the FIST, under DST, Govt. of India, Neurosciences Task Force of DBT, ICMR and others. She is the recipient of several orations such as Vimla Virmani Oration, Achanta Laxmipathy Oration, Baldev Singh Oration from  NAMS, K.L.Wig Oration from API, Mridula Kambhoj Oration, Dr V.P Sharma Oration from NASI, Veera Raghava Reddy Oration from NIMS, Hyderabad, Endowment Oration by Andhra Medical College, Prof. Kuppachhi Krishna Murthy Memorial Oration by APAPICON.

Currently she is serving as the Member, Task Force, SATYAM, DST, Govt. Of India, Member Task Force for NSCRT, DST, Govt. Of India, 2018, Member Task Force for MSU for North-East, under ICMR, Member, PMC, for Indo-Japan, ASHD Project, DBT, Member DST-FIST Subject Expert Committee , Govt of India, Chairperson, PRC -NCD division, ICMR, SEC for Neurology and Mental Health, DCGI, Govt. of India.She has 364 publications in indexed journals with H index of 58 and has on going several projects including Center of excellence for Stroke Recovery from ICMR, including assistive devices, brain stimulation and stem cells.
Sheng-Feng Sung

Ditmanson Medical Foundation Chia-Yi Christian Hospital, Taiwan

Sheng-Feng Sung

Ditmanson Medical Foundation Chia-Yi Christian Hospital, Taiwan

Sheng-Feng Sung received his MD from the National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan in 1991. He received his PhD in Information Management from the National Chung Cheng University, Chiayi, Taiwan, in 2021. He completed a residency in Neurology at the National Taiwan University Hospital. Since 1997, he has been an attending neurologist at the Ditmanson Medical Foundation Chia-Yi Christian Hospital. He served as the director of the Division of Neurology from 2012 to 2019 and the deputy director of the Department of Internal Medicine from 2013 to 2021. Currently, he is the director of the Department of Medical Research at the Ditmanson Medical Foundation Chia-Yi Christian Hospital. His research interests include cerebrovascular diseases, predictive analytics, medical informatics, and machine learning. He has published widely in scholarly journals in clinical medicine, medical informatics, and healthcare sciences.
Pi-Shan Sung

National Cheng Kung University Hospital, Taiwan

Pi-Shan Sung

National Cheng Kung University Hospital, Taiwan
Nijasri C. Suwanwela

Chulalongkorn University, Thailand

Nijasri C. Suwanwela

Chulalongkorn University, Thailand

Dr. Nijasri C. Suwanwela is a Professor of Neurology at the Chulalongkorn University in Bangkok, Thailand. She received her medical degree and completed her residency in neurology from Chulalongkorn University. She was awarded by Anandamahidol Foundation and had her fellowship training in cerebrovascular disease at the Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston, USA. She also received a Certificate in Neurosonology from the American Society of Neuroimaging. Dr. Suwanwela pioneered the ‘Stroke Fast Track’ program and the use of thrombolysis in acute ischemic stroke as well as stroke unit in Thailand. Currently, she is working on the Telestroke system. She is the former Head of Division of Neurology Chulalongkorn University and Director of Chulalongkorn Comprehensive Stroke Center. She is currently the Director of Chula Neuroscience Center. She is also the past President of the Neurological Society of Thailand. For international societies, she is the treasurer of the Asia Pacific Stroke Organization (APSO) and Vice president of the ASEAN Neurological Association (ASNA). Recently, Prof. Suwanwela was appointed as the Vice Dean on Academic service affairs at the Faculty of Medicine, Chulalongkorn University and Program director of the Chulalongkorn University International Medical Program (CUMEDi). She published many articles in international peer-reviewed journals.  She also delivered many local and international lectures. 
Nirmal Surya

Bombay Hospital Institute of Medical Sciences, India

Nirmal Surya

Bombay Hospital Institute of Medical Sciences, India

Dr Nirmal Surya (M.D., D.N.B, FIAN, MNAMS, FRCP, London) is a Hon. Ass. professor in Neurology at Bombay Hospital & Research centre and Hon. Neurophysician   Saifee hospital, Mumbai. He is also Honorary Neurologist to Maharashtra Police  

Dr Surya is the Chairman of Surya Neuro Centre and Founder Trustee and Chairman of Epilepsy Foundation India, which is a not-for-profit organisation working for the cause of epileptic patients in India.

The few positions Dr. Surya holds on the academic front are as follows:

1. President Elect, Asian Oceanian Society of Neurorehabilitation

2 . Member at Large of Presidium of WFNR (2020-2022)

3.     Chair for Special Interest Group (SIG) on developing world forum of WFNR

4.     Regional Vice president, (South Asia) of WFNR (World Federation of Neurological Rehabilitation),

5 (Founder) President, Indian Federation of Neuro Rehabilitation (IFNR)

6.      president, Indian Academy of Neurology

7.     Executive Member, Indian Stroke Association (2018-2021)

8.     Member, Program committee, 9th World Congress in Neurorehabilitation, May 2016, Philadelphia & 11th WCNR, Oct 2020, Lyon, France

9.     Past President of Bombay Neurosciences Association (BNA) and Maharashtra Association of Neurology (MAN)

10.   President, 10th World Congress in Neuro-Rehabilitation (WCNR 2018), Mumbai, India 07th – 10th Feb 2018.

11.  Member, Digital strategy Subcommittee, AAN(2021-23)

12. Member of Editorial board of Saudi journal of Disability and Rehabilitation, Pakistan Journal of Neurosciences, was on editorial board of Indian Journal of Paediatric Neurosciences and Indian Clinical update hand book, EC Neuro & others., he was Guest Editor of Saudi Journal of Disability and Rehabilitation April 2004 issue, Review editor for frontier in Rehabilitation science.

14. Chapters in Text Book in Neurology, Parkinson’s Disease and movement disorder & Reviews in Neurology

Beside these he has received many awards (including Kenneth M VisteJr, MD patient Advocacy of the year Award by AAN 2022), Mahatma Award 2022 by MahatmaGandhi foundation and delivered many orations in India and across world in various capacity
Sylaja PN

Sree Chitra Tirunal Institute for Medical Sciences and Technology(SCTI...

Sylaja PN

Sree Chitra Tirunal Institute for Medical Sciences and Technology(SCTI...

Dr P N Sylaja, MD (Medicine), DM (Neurology), FRCP Edin is the Professor and Head of Neurology and incharge of the Comprehensive Stroke Care Program at Sree Chitra Tirunal Institute for Medical Sciences and Technology, Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala ,India . She has been working in stroke for the past 22 years. She is the past President of the Indian Stroke Association, Honorary Professor of the University of Lanchashire , UK , fellow of the European Stroke Organization and fellow of the Indian Academy of Neurology . She is the member of the Task Force Group of the Non-communicable disease division of the Indian Council of Medical Research. She is technical consultant for the stroke care for the Government of Kerala. She has been working with the government in starting primary stroke units in the district hospitals in her state and actively involved in training nurses and community health workers in stroke care. She is the Global cochair for South Asia for Mission thrombectomy 2020 , which is a global campaign for increasing stroke thrombectomy access globally. She was the international scientific committee cochair of the Asia pacific stroke conference 2021 and the scientific committee member of the World Stroke Congress 2022 . She is a member of the guideline committee of the World Stroke Organization. She is the national CME convenor for the Indian Academy of Neurology and associate editor of the Cerebrovascular diseases journal and Journal of Stroke medicine. She is the PI of many stroke trials and received funding from DBT-NIH,ICMR and NIHR. She has 190 publications to her credit with citations of 16235 and an h-index of 40.
Kay-Sin Tan

Malaysia

Kay-Sin Tan

Malaysia
Sung-Chun Tang

National Taiwan University, Taiwan

Sung-Chun Tang

National Taiwan University, Taiwan

Professor Sung-Chun Tang is currently clinical professor in Neurology department, College of Medicine, National Taiwan University. He is also the Neurology attending physician and the Chief of Stroke Intensive Unit in National Taiwan University Hospital. Dr. Tang received his MD at College of Medicine and PhD at Graduate Institute of Clinical Medicine, National Taiwan University. Dr. Tang received a two years scholarship to the laboratory of Professor. Mark P. Mattson at the National Institute on Aging, NIH for the training of basic stroke research. Dr. Tang also has a great research interests in the field of cerebral small vessel diseases, acute stroke management, NOACs concentrations in stroke prevention and prognosis, etc. The related works were published in highly cited and competitive international journals.
Nguyen Huy Thang

115 The People Hospital, Vietnam

Nguyen Huy Thang

115 The People Hospital, Vietnam

Ass Professor Thang Huy Nguyen, M.D. phD

Senior Stroke Consultant

Head, Department of Cerebrovascular Disease, The People ‘s 115 Hospital, HCM city

Chair, Department of Neurology, Pham Ngoc Thach University of Medicine, HCM city

Board Certification

· Neurology, 1995

· Master of Neurology, 2002

· Stroke fellow at The National University Hospital, Singapore 2005-2006

· Neurosonology certification (American Society of Neuroimaging), 2006

· Stroke fellow at The University of Alabama at Birmingham, USA 2007-2008

National Committees:

Vice President of Vietnam Stroke Association

President of HCM city Stroke Association

Member of the Asian Stroke Advisor Board Committee

Scientific Committee of the Asia-Pacific Stroke Congress

Investigators:

CLOTBUST-PRO

DIAS 3, DIAS 4: National leading Principle Investigator

ENCHATED : National leading Principle Investigator and Steering committee member

SOCRATES : National leading Principle Investigator

THALES : National leading Principle Investigator

AFFINITY: National leading Principle Investigator and Steering committee member

DIRECT SAFE: National leading Principle Investigator and Steering committee member

INTERACT 3: Steering committee member
Lekhjung Thapa

National Institute of Neurological and Allied Sciences, Nepal

Lekhjung Thapa

National Institute of Neurological and Allied Sciences, Nepal
Vincent Thijs

Austin Health, Florey Institute of Neuroscience & Mental Health, Austr...

Vincent Thijs

Austin Health, Florey Institute of Neuroscience & Mental Health, Austr...

A highly respected and accomplished clinician with over 20 years of experience specialising in stroke and neurological care with some of the world's leading health services. Passionate about driving improved access and outcomes in stroke care, particularly in young patients. Committed to supporting early-career researchers, having supervised four successful PhD candidates, and currently supervising two active PhD candidates. Currently appointed to the Florey Institute of Neuroscience and Mental Health, one of Australia’s leading research organisations pioneering advancements in neurological and stroke care. Drives ongoing clinical research and education for junior doctors and has supervised more than 20 student and resident research projects. Recognised as a leader in stroke research with over 434 peer-reviewed publications and ranked as the top 357thresearcher in Australia and 9395thtop researcher worldwide in medicine. Possesses extensive leadership experience and combines exceptional clinical capability combined with strong business acumen to manage Stroke Medicine at Austin Health, ensuring exceptional service delivery and patientoutcomes. Establishes and maintains productive professional, clinical and research networks to drive advancements in stroke care both in Australia and overseas
Shamala Thilarajah

Singapore General Hospital, Singapore

Shamala Thilarajah

Singapore General Hospital, Singapore

Dr Shamala Thilarajah is a Senior Principal Physiotherapist at Singapore General Hospital (SGH). Dr Thilarajah has been a physiotherapist since 2004, having completed her Bachelor of Applied Science (Physiotherapy) in 2003, Master of Health Sciences (Neurological Physiotherapy) in 2008 and her PhD (Doctor of Philosophy) in 2018. Having trained as a physiotherapist in Sydney and London before returning home to Singapore in 2012, Dr Thilarajah has worked across the continuum of care in the area of stroke and currently leading research in the area of post-stroke physical activity and evidence-based practice. Dr Thilarajah believes in equal access to social participation for people with disabilities. She has been an avid volunteer with Singapore National Stroke Association (SNSA) since 2015 and is the current elected President of SNSA. Dr Thilarajah is also in the present cohort of World Stroke Organisation Future Leader programme (2020-2022).
Stephanie Thompson

Te Whatu Ora, Capital, Coast and Hutt Valley, New Zealand

Stephanie Thompson

Te Whatu Ora, Capital, Coast and Hutt Valley, New Zealand

Stephanie is a physiotherapist with 15+ years working in stroke rehabilitation. She currently works for an Early Supported Discharge stroke team at Te Whatu Ora, Capital, Coast and Hutt Valley in Wellington, New Zealand. She is also Clinical Lead for Rehabilitation at Capital and Coast. Stephanie recently completed her PhD at the University of Otago, Wellington looking at access to best practice stroke care and patient outcomes in Aotearoa/New Zealand. She has a passion for improving equitable and timely access to best practice stroke rehabilitation, particularly for non-European New Zealanders.
Kazunori Toyoda

National Cerebral and Cardiovascular Center, Japan

Kazunori Toyoda

National Cerebral and Cardiovascular Center, Japan

Deputy Director General of the Hospital and Chair, Department of Stroke and Cerebrovascular Diseases, National Cerebral and Cardiovascular Center, Suita, Osaka, Japan.

Specialty: stroke neurology

Executive Committee member of Asia Pacific Stroke Organization,

Consulting editor of STROKE, American Stroke Association,

Board member of World Stroke Organization, Japanese Society of Neurology, Japan Stroke Society, Japanese Society of Hypertension, Japanese Society of Cerebral Blood Flow and Metabolism and Cardiovascular Stroke Society of Japan
Sheng-Ta Tsai

China Medical University Hospital, Taiwan

Sheng-Ta Tsai

China Medical University Hospital, Taiwan

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.”