New Stroke Outcomes Data: The Role of Prolonged Cardiac Monitoring in Secondary Stroke Prevention

Prof Wolfram Döhner M.D., Ph.D., FESC is Professor of Interdisciplinary Stroke Research at the Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Germany. He is a cardiologist and specialist for internal and nutritional medicine. He works at the Center for Stroke Research Berlin (CSB) and the Dept of Cardiology at the Virchow Hospital of the Charité. Prof Döhner was Chair (2016-2018) of the study group on heart and brain interaction for the HFA and Secretary for the rehabilitation section for the European Association on Preventive Cardiology (EAPC). He is a member of the ESC program committee (2014-2020) and is Chairman (2018-2020) of the ESC Council on Stroke.

Prof Georgios Tsivgoulis M.D., Ph.D., MSc, FESO, FEAN is Professor of Neurology and Vice-Chairman in the Department of Neurology at the National & Kapodistrian University of Athens, School of Medicine in Greece. He is the Divisional Director of Cerebrovascular Diseases, Director of the Neurosonology Laboratory and Director of Residential Training and the Cerebrovascular Fellowship Program. He is also a Visiting Professor of Neurology and Director of Stroke Research, in the Department of Neurology, University of Tennessee Health Science Center in Memphis, TN. His research interests focus on acute reperfusion therapies in acute ischaemic stroke, applications of neurosonology in cerebrovascular diseases, secondary stroke prevention, and clinical trial methodology. Prof Tsivgoulis serves on the board of Directors for the European Stroke Organization (ESO) and is the Chair of the International Liaison Committee (ESO). Prof Tsivgoulis has published more than 300 original papers and 11 chapters in international medical journals in the field of cerebrovascular diseases.

Prof Robert Hatala PhD, FESC, FACC, is head of the Department of Cardiology and Angiology and Director of the Arrhythmia and Pacing Centre at the National Cardiovascular Institute and Slovak Medical University in Bratislava, Slovakia. He obtained his MD degree at Comenius University, Bratislava and practiced several years abroad in both Canada and Europe. His main areas of interest are: catheter ablation in adults and children, atrial fibrillation, sudden cardiac death and heart failure. In 1995, he founded the first specialised arrhythmia center in Slovakia with more than 2,000 interventions annually and has extensive experience with implantable loop recorders.