Stroke - There is no such a thing as "too young" to have a stroke?

Thursday, March 28, 2019
8:00 AM 9:00 AM 08:00 09:00

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Presenter: Dr. Aleksandra Pikula and Dr. Farah Al-Eisa

Topic: There is no such a thing as "too young" to have a stroke? - A Brief Review of the Stroke in Young Adults - incidence/prevalence, severity, recurrence/mortality, functional and other outcomes; a word about the UHN Stroke in Young Adults Program.

Dr. Aleksandra Pikula will be presenting a current knowledge on incidence/prevalence, severity, recurrence/mortality, functional and other outcomes; and will introduce the UHN Stroke in Young Adults Program.

Dr. Farah Al-Eisa will be presenting few interesting case scenarios relevant to clinical/diagnostic and management approaches to stroke in young adults.

Biography:

Dr. Aleksandra Pikula completed her medical training, followed by internal medicine residency at the University of Belgrade. She subsequently completed her residency in neurology and clinical fellowship in vascular neurology at the Boston Medical/Mass Gen Hospital combined program. This was followed by 2-year epi-research in vascular neurology at the Framingham Heart Study (FHS). Before joining UHN/TWH Stroke Program in 2015, she was an Associate Investigator at the FHS, exploring the role of neurotrophins and inflammatory pathways in subclinical vascular brain injury (covert infarcts, WMH, CMBs) measured on volumetric brain MRI in young and mid-age population. In parallel to this, she developed a strong clinical interest in stroke in young adults, investigating specific clinical, radiographic, sex/gender disparities, and more recently, psychosocial factors that influence functional outcomes in this population. Currently, she is a lead of the UHN Stroke in Young Adults Program (Combined CNS Vasculitis Clinic and Stroke in Young Clinic) and she is a director of the UHN Stroke Neurology Research Program.

Dr. Farah Al-Eisa is a 2nd year Stroke fellow at TWH, neurology residency in Saudi Arabia, at King Fahd Specialist Hospital (KFSH). She graduated from King Faisal University medical school. She will be back at KFSH in July 2019 to start the neurovascular program.