My Stroke Journey is unique. I am stroke survivor having suffered lacunar stroke when I was 17 years old with right hemiplegia and speech difficulty which improved with medical management. Since then, I have been fiercely determined to create difference for stroke in the Indian community. Fate took me across several journeys in my professional career, first in radiology and then neuroradiology, finally across several stroke and neuroscience training
exposures to finally complete what I wanted to experience first-hand – holistic stroke system.I have finished my part time Masters in Stroke Medicine (M.Sc) from DUK, Austria with research project on pre hospital policies and physician attitudes in India under Prof. Brainin. I had worked on developing pre-hospital policy having gained valuable experience from working in CMC, Ludhiana between 2016-18. I was involved in training ASHA workers and stroke educational activities. I have undertaken visiting practicums in Switzerland as well undertaken short course training in TCD at NUHS, Singapore in 2019. We started Asia’s first Mobile stroke unit and had data published in WSC 2020. We also published our data on the role of MRI in the acute neuroimaging of stroke patients as part of WSC 2021. I received Young Investigator awards at successive World Stroke Congresses. I was also fortunate to deliver talk on patient reported outcomes at the WSC in Singapore. Subsequently I become
coordinator for ResQ data registry and I became board certified in Advanced Stroke Co- Ordinator in 2021 through ANVC to equip myself in allied hospital policies. However in order to address other lacunes I finished online stroke programmes (CASTLE, Calgary based stroke training and Virtual Stroke course, SGH, Singapore). I have finished my distance learning PG Diploma in Clinical Neurology and recently worked as short term fellow in Stroke at University
hospital at Edmonton, Alberta for acute stroke exposure and came back to India to complete my diploma in rehabilitation medicine from CMC Vellore, to be a Specialist Stroke Consultant. Having finished my stroke sojourn across the continents my desire to be part of holistic stroke program led me to joining a Clinical Neurosciences team at my current workplace as Senior Consultant and Clinical Lead (Neuroradiology). I also completed my Stroke Assessor training by Quality Accreditation India (QAI) in 2024 to formally evaluate Indian stroke systems of care. I like to thank everyone who have been with me in this journey at various times and am always eternally grateful to them for lessons learnt as well as derived. Finally, I thank family and God. As holistic stroke administrator, I am interested in developing regional stroke systems of care using local logistics and aim to develop health centres focussing on stroke and cerebrovascular diseases as well as collaborate with others to establish equity for stroke
access and maintain quality in stroke care across the country using existing hub and spoke models incorporating telestroke and neuroimaging. Finally I would like to empower stroke patients and their caregivers themselves for patient reported health outcome measures in India and rest of the world. I wish to foster collaborations between medical and paramedical personnel involved in holistic stroke care spanning continuum between the acute emergency and assisted discharges focussing on the small things that create lasting impact in stroke care.