WSO Research Committee Update

01 Mar 2019 News from WSO Committees

Report from Julie Bernhardt and Roland Veltkamp (co-chairs)

1. New members and new Co-Chair

The research committee has two new members in 2019, Else Sandset, Oslo University Hospital, Norway and Nils Henninger, NeuroNexus Neuroscience institute, University of Massachusetts Medical School, USA. We also called for a new Co-Chair and are delighted to have Roland Veltkamp step into this role from the Research Committee membership. Roland has been part of the committee since 2017. We also say good bye to Masayasu Matsumoto, Japan who served on the committee for 2 years and thank him for his service

2. WSO/ESO/GAINS Second training day, 2020: A Training opportunity for mid-career researchers

Following on from the successful meeting at WSC 2018, the research committee will be working with ESO and GAINS to deliver another exciting training day prior to the combined ESO/WSO meeting in Vienna 2020. We’ll keep you posted with updates as this progresses

3. Endorsement requests for research activity, trials or projects

The research committee have developed a policy for processing requests for endorsement of the goals of a specific research activity. The policy is now approved. The application form can be found here:

WSO Endorsement_Final

To be eligible for consideration of the Research Committee the following criteria must be met:

An applicant must be a WSO member
The study, project or activity must be in line with the objectives of the World Stroke Organization and be of a scope that has the potential for considerable national or global impact

The additional criteria below will also be assessed as part of the application process:

If the study is a trial or extended review, the study must be registered on an internationally accessible trial or study registry (number provided)
The study, project or activity must be academic/non-commercial.
The study has been approved by an Ethical Review Board (attach evidence of approval)
A published protocol (either web or in a journal) will be considered favourably.

WSO members can submit a request to review to the WSO Head Office.

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