Scientific Program

Programme Overview

• Opening Ceremony

• Presidential Symposium

  • Stroke as a global health problem
  • Stroke in the Asia Pacific
  • Stroke in low and middle income countries
  • Social determinants of stroke, inequalities in stroke

• Plenary Sessions

  • Cutting edge therapies in stroke

• Themed Symposia

  • Acute Treatment Thrombosis
  • Stroke in Asia Pacific
  • Prevention
  • Acute Treatment MT
  • Heart and Stroke
  • Stroke in special groups - children, old age, women
  • Large artery disease
  • ICH - new Rx, amyloid angiopathy, CMBs, etc
  • Epidemiology
  • Small vessel disease
  • Current concepts - Frailty, Palliative Care
  • Cognition, dementia, depression after stroke
  • What’s new in Stroke 1
  • Surgery in stroke, critical care
  • Unusual causes - carotid web, ESUS, Genetic
  • haematological
  • What’s new in Stroke 2
  • Neuroimaging - acute CTA, MRI, vessel wall
  • New advances in stroke

• Asia Pacific Region Country Perspectives on Stroke Care

• Breakfast Sessions

• Stroke Bytes

• Debate

• Stroke Quiz

• Late Breaking Abstracts

• Abstract Presentations - Oral and Poster

• Closing Ceremony

• Stroke Rehabilitation Workshop