Venue: Hajar Auditorium
Date: 29 October 2015
Master of Ceremonies: Rachel Morris
4CME/4CNE

Time Speaker Topic
7am - 8am Registration
8am to 8:15am Dr. Michael Richmond
Chief Medical Officer
Welcome Remarks
8:15am to 8:30am Dr. Hisham El-Khider
Specialist, Neurology
Let’s listen to stroke survivors
8:30am to 9am Prof. Shuaib Ashfaq
Director, Neuroscience Institute
Achievements and Future Plans of the Stroke Service
9am to 9:20am Dr. Saleem Farook
Sr. Consultant and Vice Chair of Education – ED
Acute Stroke Management: An ED perspective
9:20am to 9:45am Refreshments
9:45am to 10:10am Dr. Naveed Akhtar
Consultant Stroke Neurologist and Assistant Director, Stroke Service
Hyper-Acute Stroke Care: The HMC Way
 
10:10am to 10:35am
 
Dr. Pablo Garcia Bermejo
Consultant Neuroradiology, AHS
Update on Neuro-interventional Management of Stroke and HMC’s experience
10:35am to 11:00am Elizabeth Macgillivray
Deputy Executive Director, Corporate Communications
HMC stroke campaign overview
11:00am to 11:30am
 
Ms. Paula Bourke
Advanced Clinical Nurse Specialist
Stroke Nursing