Stefano Maria Priola, MD, is an assistant professor of Neurosurgery at the Northern Ontario School of Medicine University, Canada. He is a graduate of the University of Messina, Italy, where he has completed his Medical Degree and his Neurosurgical Residency. In 2016, he moved to Toronto, Canada, to complete clinical fellowships in “General Neurosurgery”, “Neuro-oncology and Skull Base Approaches”, and “Vascular and Endovascular Neurosurgery”. His research interests are broad and include neuro-oncology, vascular and endovascular neurosurgery, and skull base surgery.
Dr. Aristeidis H. Katsanos is a Vascular Neurologist, Assistant Professor at McMaster University and an Investigator at the Population Health Research Institute (PHRI), Hamilton, ON, Canada. He obtained his Medical Degree from the University of Ioannina, School of Medicine, Ioannina, Greece and completed his training in Neurology at the University of Ioannina and the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece. He completed his Ph.D. thesis at the Department of Neurology, University of Ioannina, investigating the contribution of transesophageal echocardiography in the diagnostic work-up of patients with stroke. His research focuses on emerging neurosonology applications and the evidence-based evaluation of novel therapies in acute stroke treatment and secondary stroke prevention. He serves as the Co-PI of two phase 2 randomized controlled clinical trials evaluating optimal blood pressure control after
endovascular thrombectomy (DETECT; NCT04484350) and the use of colchicine for the prevention of vascular events after an acute intracerebral hemorrhage (CoVasc-ICH; NCT05159219). He also serves as a member of the Guidelines Committee and the Young Stroke Physicians & Researchers Committee of the ESO, a member of the Digital Content Committee of the Canadian Stroke Consortium, and a member of the Communications Advisory Group of the PHRI.
Gianluca Scalia currently works at the Neurosurgery Unit, Department of Head and Neck Surgery, ARNAS Garibaldi, Catania, Italy. His top areas of expertise are spine surgery, head trauma, and neuro-oncology. His clinical research consists of co-authoring more than 100 peer-reviewed articles in the past 5 years.
Dr. Abhilekh Srivastava completed his medical school in 2010 at Maulana Azad Medical College (MAMC) in Delhi University, India. He was adjudged as the best outgoing medical graduate in his final year of medical school. He then went on to finish a three-year residency in internal medicine from 2011 to 2014 followed by a three-year residency from 2014 to 2017 in neurology from the same university (MAMC and GB Pant Hospital). He worked as a consultant neurologist from 2017 to 2021 at Fortis Hospital, New Delhi. He was then selected for a clinical stroke fellowship at McMaster University, which he started in September 2021. His areas of special interest are therapeutics in acute stroke care and research in population-based primary prevention strategies in acute stroke.
