FENS-ESO Joint Webinar: Stroke and dementia – From the clinical question to neuroscientific background
07 May 2025
FENS News, Neuroscience News
FENS and the European Stroke Organisation (ESO) invite you to join their joint webinar on “Stroke and dementia – From the clinical question to neuroscientific background.” Moderated by Prof. Karen Doyle and Prof. Peter Kelly and featuring insights from two prominent researchers in the field of cerebrovascular diseases – Prof. Ana Verdelho and Prof. Raj Kalaria – this webinar will examine both the growing body of research on stroke and dementia as well as its clinical applications.
The webinar will be held online (via Zoom) on 3 June 2025 from 16:00-17:00 CEST.
You can register here.
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Speaker bios
Ana Verdelho is a neurologist in the Department of Neurosciences of Santa Maria Hospital in Lisbon (ULSSM), where she is responsible for the dementia outpatient clinic. She is a professor at the Medical School of the University of Lisbon, where she obtained her PhD and aggregate title, as well as a researcher at the CAML (Centro Académico de Medicina de Lisboa) and Medicine ULisboa for Health, Clinical Research and Innovation (MUHCRI). Her main fields of interest include ageing, dementia, and cognitive decline, as well as vascular cognitive impairment (including small vessel disease and cerebral white matter disease). She has authored and co-authored several scientific articles and book chapters on these topics.
Raj Kalaria, DSc (Med), FRCPath, FMedSci, is head of the Neurovascular Research in the Translational and Clinical Research Institute at Newcastle University, UK. He is also a professor of neuropathology (cerebrovascular diseases) and a neuroepidemiologist, and has adjunct professorial appointments at the Universities of Ibadan, Nigeria and Nairobi, Kenya. His interests include the interface between Alzheimer disease (AD) and vascular dementia (VaD), Post-Stroke Dementia and Small Vessel Diseases of the Brain. He has contributed to consensus criteria for Vascular Cognitive Impairment (VCI) and leads dementia research projects in indigenous populations of developing countries, particularly sub-Saharan Africa. Prof. Kalaria is a member of the Africa Task Force of the European Academy of Neurology and the ADCD speciality interest group of the World Federation of Neurology. He was the past Chair/President of the International Society for Vascular Behavioural and Cognitive Disorders (VasCog), and is a founding member of the African Stroke Organisation and African Dementia Consortium.
Moderator bios
Karen Doyle is a professor at the University of Galway’s School of Medicine, as well as co-Director of CURAM, the National Centre for Research in Medical Devices funded by Research Ireland. Her research group investigates the characteristics of human blood clots that cause occlusive strokes to inform medical device design and the discovery of novel biomarkers to advance stroke diagnosis and treatment. She is a former President of Neuroscience Ireland (2021–2024) and is currently a member of the FENS Committee for Higher Education & Training (2022 – present).
Peter Kelly, MB, BCh, MSc, MD, FRCPI, FESO, is a professor of neurology and Stroke Service Co-Director at Mater University Hospital/University College Dublin. He is the immediate Past President of ESO, and has served a leading role in multiple ESO initiatives, including the Executive Committee, Stroke Action Plan for Europe, European Stroke Organisation Conference, ESO Trials Network Committee, and ESO Trials Alliance (ESOTA). His research focuses on clinical trials and risk prediction for secondary prevention after stroke, with a particular focus on inflammation. He was Chief Investigator on the CONVINCE trial and several other large multi-centre studies, as well as Lead Investigator for the Health Research Board Stroke Clinical Trials Network Ireland. He has been awarded approximately €15 million in research funding, over €10 million as principal investigator. He has published widely in leading journals, contributed to national and international stroke guidelines, edited a book on stroke prevention, and served on the editorial boards of leading international journals. From 2010-16, he was Neurology Clinical Lead for the Irish National Stroke Programme, a national quality improvement programme which led modernisation of clinical care for stroke in Ireland.