Journal Cluster Webinar | Cognitive Impairment After Stroke: Current Research Into Neuropathology, Evaluation and Management

Jeffrey Cheah School of Medicine and Health Sciences, Monash University Malaysia, Bandar Sunway, Selangor, Malaysia;
Memory Lucy Mtambo is a PhD candidate at the Jeffrey Cheah School of Medicine and Health Sciences, Monash University Malaysia. She researches post-stroke cognitive impairment in community-dwelling survivors and aims to provide evidence to strengthen prevention and health promotion strategies in rural and remote areas of low- and middle-income countries.

Department of Clinical Neurosciences, Cumming School of Medicine, University of Calgary, Calgary, AB, Canada;

Department of Neurology, McGovern Medical School, University of Texas Health Science Center, Houston, United States;
Dr. Ritzel conducted his graduate studies on stroke immunology in the Department of Neuroscience at the University of Connecticut Health Center and obtained his PhD in 2016. He then pursued postdoctoral training at the Shock, Trauma and Anesthesiology Research Center at the University of Maryland School of Medicine in Baltimore, where he studied neuroimmune interactions in chronic traumatic brain injury. Dr. Ritzel received the inaugural Michael Shipley Postdoctoral Award for excellence in neuroscience research and has been the recipient of NINDS F31, F32, and K99/R00 training awards. His translational neuroscience laboratory at the University of Texas Health Science Center in Houston is actively investigating the neuroimmune interactions underlying CNS aging, acute brain injury, and chronic neurodegeneration.

Department of Neuropsychology, National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery, University College London Hospitals, London, United Kingdom;
Dr. Edgar Chan is a Consultant Clinical Neuropsychologist. He completed his undergraduate degree in Psychology at the University of Melbourne and his post-graduate professional training in Clinical Psychology and Clinical Neuropsychology at the University of Queensland. He obtained a PhD in Cognitive Neuroscience at the Queensland Brain Institute and has been working in the Department of Neuropsychology at the National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery Queen Square since 2013. He is also an Honorary Senior Research Associate with the Stroke Research Group at the Institute of Neurology, UCL.

School of Psychology, University of East Anglia, Norwich, United Kingdom;
Dr. Yidian Gao is a postdoctoral researcher with a clinical neuroscience and psychiatry background. Having completed her doctoral and master’s studies at Second Xiangya Hospital, China, Yidian’s primary research interest lies in utilizing multi-site neuroimaging data to generate more robust, generalizable insights for clinical neuroscience challenges, such as conduct disorder and mild traumatic brain injury. In her recent work, she has led and contributed to international collaborations (including ENIGMA-Antisocial Behavior and mTBI-PREDICT), focusing on data harmonization and open-science practices. Ultimately, Yidian aims to translate these large-scale, multi-modal findings into meaningful clinical applications that can enhance patient outcomes and inform future interventions.