Board and Executive Committee

Sheila Martins

President

Brazil

Jeyaraj Pandian

President-Elect

India

Craig Anderson

Vice President

Australia

Michelle Nelson

Vice President SSO

Canada

Valeria Caso

Treasurer

Italy

Deidre De Silva

Secretary

Singapore

Marc Fisher

Immediate Past President

United States of America

Michael Brainin

Ex-Officio Member

Austria

Hugh Stephen Markus

Ex-officio Member - Editor of IJS

United Kingdom

Gustavo Saposnik

Member at Large

Canada

Gisele Sampaio Silva

Member at Large

Brazil

Gloria Ekeng

Member at Large representing the SSOs

Nigeria

WSO Board of Directors

Individual members

Farah Al Eisa, Saudi Arabia
Caleb Ademola Gbiri, Nigeria
Maria Khan Junaidi, Pakistan
Mayowa Ojo Owolabi
Babak Zamani, Iran

Cheryl Bushnell, USA
David Liebeskind, USA
Sean Savitz, USA
Luciano Sposato, Canada
Bruce Ovbiagele, USA

Philip Bath, UK
Mirjam Heldner, Switzerland
Atte Meretoja, Finland
Francesca Pezzella, Italy
Stefan Schwab, Germany

Epifania Collantes, Philippines
Candice Delcourt, Australia
Keun-Sik Hong, South Korea
Kazuo Kitagawa, Japan
Andrew Lee, Australia
Rita Krishnamurthi, New Zealand
Ivy Sebastian, India
PN Sylaja, India
Kazu Toyoda, Japan

Society members

Hrvoje Budincevic, Central and Eastern European Stroke Society
Karen Furie, American Stroke Association
Gord Gubitz, Canadian Stroke Consortium
Teruyuki Hirano, Japan Stroke Society
Thorsten Steiner, European Stroke Organization
Timothy Kleinig, Australian and New Zealand Stroke Organisation
Patrik Michel, Swiss Stroke Society
Roland Veltkamp, German Stroke Society

Anita Arsovska, Macedonian organization for a fight against stroke
Juliet Bouverie, UK Stroke Association
Anna Ranta, Stroke Foundation New Zealand
Lisa Murphy, Stroke Foundation, Australia
Rita Melifonwu, Stroke Action Nigeria
Arvind Sharma, Brain - Heart Foundation
Arlene Wilkie, Stroke Alliance For Europe
Yusuke Yakushiji, The Japan Stroke Association

Liping Liu - China
Kay Sin Tan - representing APSO
Yohanna Kusuma - Indonesia

Past-Presidents

H.J.M. BARNETT (Canada) 1989-1992
W.-D HEISS (Germany) 1992-1996
Fumio GOTOH (Japan) 1996-2000
James F. TOOLE (USA) 2000-2004
Julien BOGOUSSLAVSKY (Switzerland) 2004-2005
Takenori YAMAGUCHI (Japan) 2005-2006
Geoffrey A. Donnan (Australia) 2006-2008
Bo Norrving (Sweden) 2008-2012
Stephen Davis (Australia) 2012-2016
Werner Hacke (Germany) 2016-2018
Michael Brainin (Austria) 2018-2020
Marc Fisher
(USA) 2020-2022

Antonio CULEBRAS (USA) 2004-2006

Annual reports

01 Apr 2024

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