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The Stroke Association hosts the UK Stroke Forum – a coalition of 32 organisations committed to improving stroke care. [15] The forum is the largest multidisciplinary stroke conference in the UK where stroke clinicians and researchers share ideas, promote research and provide a unified voice for more statutory sector funding for research.
He is a Fellow of the European Stroke Organisation (2005) and American Heart Association (2014). He gave the Stroke Association keynote lecture in 2015. [14] He received the Feinberg Award for Excellence in Clinical Stroke from the American Heart Association in 2016, [15] and the British Pharmacological Society's Lilly Prize in 2024. [16]
InterAct Stroke Support, previously known as the InterAct Reading Service, [1] is a charity registered with the Charity Commission Of England and Wales. [2] Its aim is to support the rehabilitation of stroke survivors through a live interactive reading service. [3] The charity was formed in 2000 by the theatre director Caroline Smith. [4]
The UK government has a list of professional associations approved for tax purposes (this includes some non-UK based associations, which are not included here). [1] There is a separate list of regulators in the United Kingdom for bodies that are regulators rather than professional associations.
David John Werring (born October 1967) is a British physician, neurologist, and academic specialising in stroke. He is professor of Neurology at the UCL Queen Square Institute of Neurology and current head of Stroke Research Centre and the department of Brain Repair & Rehabilitation at UCL.
A mnemonic to remember the warning signs of stroke is FAST (facial droop, arm weakness, speech difficulty, and time to call emergency services), [36] as advocated by the Department of Health (United Kingdom) and the Stroke Association, the American Stroke Association, and the National Stroke Association (US).
Enjoy a classic game of Hearts and watch out for the Queen of Spades!
The World Stroke Organization (WSO) is a non-profit medical association that works to raise awareness of prevention and treatment of stroke.The organization was founded in 2006 from the merging of two organizations previously in existence, the International Stroke Society (ISS) and the World Stroke Federation (WSF). [1]