[S-19] Pre-and inhospital stroke management for hyper acute stroke

[S-19-1] Pre-hospital stroke care in the United States

^○Ken Uchino (Cerebrovascular Center, Cleveland Clinic)

Dr Uchino received his BA degree from Harvard University and MD from New York University. He completed neurology residency at University of Washington, Seattle, and cerebrovascular disease fellowship at University of Texas-Houston. He is certified in Neurology and Vascular Neurology by the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology. He is a staff physician at Cerebrovascular Center at Cleveland Clinic and is an Associate Professor of Medicine at Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine of Case Western Reserve University.
His interests and research areas include acute ischemic stroke imaging and treatment, intracranial arterial stenosis, stroke epidemiology, and health services research. He is the principal investigator for the Regional Coordinating Center at Case Westerns Reserve University within the NIH-funded stroke clinical trials network (NIH StrokeNet). He has published over 100 peer-reviewed papers and is the author of Acute Stroke Care published by Cambridge University Press.