Ashkan Shoamanesh, MD, FRCPC, FESO, FANA

McMaster University, Canada

Dr. Ashkan Shoamanesh is an Associate Professor of Medicine in the Division of Neurology and a stroke neurologist at McMaster University, where he holds the Marta and Owen Boris Chair in Stroke Research and Care. He is the founding Director of the Hemorrhagic Stroke Research Program and a Senior Scientist at the affiliated Population Health Research Institute in Hamilton, Canada. His clinical trials program is working on establishing new treatment and standards of care that prevent stroke and reduce stroke-related disability. He leads several multicentre randomized trials as PI/Co-PI, including ENRICH-AF (NCT03950076; Lancet 2023), OCEANIC-STROKE (NCT05686070), SATURN-MRI (NCT03936361) and CoVasc-ICH (NCT05159219), and has held central leadership roles in the ANNEXa-I (NEJM 2024), PACIFIC-STROKE (Lancet 2022) and NAVIGATE-ESUS (NEJM 2018) trials. Dr. Shoamanesh has published over 160 manuscripts in leading scientific journals and serves on the editorial boards of Stroke, International Journal of Stroke and Canadian Journal of Neurological Sciences.