Committees

WSO committees further the work of the organization in specific, defined areas.

Co-Chairs: Stephen Davis and Geoffrey Donnan

Co-Chairs: Sean Savitz and Stefan Kiechl

Members:

Marc Fisher
Michael Brainin
Natan Bornstein
Ana Catarina Fonseca
Werner Hacke
Patrice Lindsay
Deidre de Silva
Bernard Yan

Co-Chairs: Susanna Zuurbier and Gisele Silva

Members:

Ad Adams Ebenezer
Ana Cláudia de Souza
Ahmed Elkady
Irene Escudero
Deepak Gulati
Mirjam Heldner
Kwah Li Khim
Ahmed Nasreldein
Anderson Chun On Tsang
Ivy Sebastian
Laetitia Yperzeele

Chairs: Epifania Collantes and Octavio Marques Pontes Neto

Vice chair: Ramesh Sahathevan

Members:

Amy Edmunds
Epifania Colantes
Louisa M Christensen
Marc Fisher
Mary Kay Ballasiotes
Nelson Novarro
Patrice Lindsay
Rufus Akinyemi
Simiao Wu
Taleb Al Mansoor
Urvashy Gopaul
Veronica Olavarria

Co-Chairs: Valeria Caso and Kennedy Lees

Members:

Andrew Demchuk
Andrew Lee
Atte Meretoja
Juliet Bouverie
Keithan Sivakumar
Kay Sin Tan

Co-Chairs: Valery Feigin and Sheila Martins

Members:

Anna Ranta
Argye Hillis
Bo Norrving
Craig Anderson
Epiphania Collantes
Gary Ford
Joanna Wardlaw
Mayowa Owolabi
Michael Brainin
Mohammad Wasay
Patrik Michel
Serefnur Ozturk

Co-Chairs:

Philip Bath and Violiza Inoa

Members:

Antonia Nucera
Bernard Yan
Marc Fisher
Tudor Jovin

Chair: Hanne Christensen and Vijay Sharma

Members:

Stephen Davis
Patrice Lindsay
Marc Fisher
Michael Brainin
Jeyaraj Pandian
Liping Liu
Geoffrey Donnan

Co-Chairs: Juliet Bouverie and Jeyaraj Pandian

Members:

Hernan Bayona
Jorge Celis
Rustambek Matmurodov
Rita Melifonwu
Ahmed Rasheed
Varsha Singh
Key Sin Tan
Arlene Wilkie
Vun Vun Wong

Co-Chairs: Michelle Nelson and Lisa Murphy

Members:

Arlene Wilkie
Deidre De Silva
Thato Minyuku
Yusuke Yakushiji
Juliet Bouverie
Mehdi Farhoudi
Wang Shaoshi
Mika Pyykkö
Stephanie Mohl

Chair: Alejandro Rabinstein and Gillian Mead

Members:

David Liebeskind
Gisele Silva
Hugh Marcus
Kelvin Hill
Mary Kay Ballasiotes
Mayowa Owolabi
Patrice Lindsay
Pooja Khatri
Sylaja PN
Thorsten Steiner
Victor C. Urrutia
Vijay Kumar Sharma

Writing group:

Kolawole Wahab
Laetitia Yperzeele
Luciano Sposato
Mansur Kutlubaev
Simiao Wu

Co-Chairs: Adriana Conforto and Roland Veltkamp

Members:

Ana Catarina Fonseca
Bindu Menon
Caleb Gbiri
David Liebeskind
Else Sandset
Gustavo Saposnik
Hugh Marcus
Nils Henninger
Pamela Naidoo
Ye Liu (Alice)

Co-Chairs: Angel Corredor and Deidre De Silva

Members:

Anita Arsovska
Stacie Broek
Marina Charalambous
Ad Adams Ebenezer
Rita Melifonwu
Lucinana Neves
Sylaja PN
John De Rango
Gilberto Torres

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Our partners and sponsors

Achieving our vision of a life free from stroke is a task that WSO cannot achieve alone. We are committed to building our partnerships at the global, regional and national level to scale up and deliver improvements in prevention, treatment and support to reduce the burden of stroke.