MD/PhD student Brandon Craig of @uCalgary wins Innovation Award for pediatric stroke research at Canadian Stroke Congress in Ottawa. Congratulations! #strokecongress
Rachel Hawe of @uCalgary wins CIHR award for sex&gender-based research at Canadian Stroke Congress in Ottawa. Congratulations. 2/3 big winners #strokecongress are from Calgary! Congrats also to Dukelow and Kirton labs!
MD/PhD student Brandon Craig of @uCalgary wins Innovation Award for pediatric stroke research at Canadian Stroke Congress in Ottawa. Congratulations! #strokecongress
@strokecongress Alex Rebchuk wins Impact Award for research on health outcome measures post stroke. One size does not fit all. Outcomes should represent patient preferences. @HSF_science
If 1/2 of the population presents with “atypical” symptoms, what makes their symptoms atypical? - @YuAmyyu challenging the audience to think about how women & men present with symptoms as part of stroke in women panel #StrokeCongress@SharonDreher@karanerenberg@HSF_science
The diseases of our vascular system place a huge burden on our population. "One person dies in Canada every 5 minutes from heart conditions, stroke, or vascular cognitive impairment" - Dr. Patrice Lindsay of the Heart and Stroke Foundation of Canada #StrokeCongress
Alex Rebchuk, 4th year med student from UBC, wins impact award at #strokecongress in Ottawa. His work looks at modified Rankin scale "one size does not fit all"
@patrice_lindsay presenting longitudinal data on 2.6million hospitalizations for CV conditions. More co morbidity. Almost 40% readmitted “have to do better” @strokecongress@HSF_science
The complexity and inter-connectedness of heart, stroke and VCI creates the need for a more integrated health system, @patrice_lindsay tells #strokecongress