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Stephen Davis
Professor Stephen Davis
MB BS, MD, FRACP, FRCP (Edin)
Stephen Davis is Professor of Neurology, University of Melbourne, Divisional Director of Neurosciences, Director of Neurology and Head of the Stroke Service at Royal Melbourne Hospital. He is Past President of the Stroke Society of Australasia, chaired the 4th World Stroke Congress, and was Chairman of the Education Committee for the World Congress of Neurology 2005. Professor Davis has extensive experience as a member of steering committees of international stroke trials, both industry-sponsored and investigator-driven. He co-chaired a number of investigator-driven trials including the ongoing EPITHET and ARCH trials as well as co-founded the Australasian Stroke Trials Network and Neuroscience Trials Australia. From 2002 to 2005 Professor Davis chaired the Royal Melbourne Hospital Human Research Ethics Committee. He is an Honorary Principal Fellow of the Howard Florey Institute.
He has published over 200 papers, 21 book chapters, and co-authored 2 texts, ‘Interventional Stroke Therapy’ and ‘Magnetic Resonance Imaging in Stroke.’ He has chaired or served on numerous national and international committees. He has extensive experience in cerebrovascular research, with interests in acute interventional therapies, new magnetic resonance imaging techniques in brain ischaemia, as well as secondary prevention and brain recovery. He is a member of six editorial boards including Stroke, Cerebrovascular Disease, Journal of Neuroimaging and Journal of Clinical Neuroscience. He has served on numerous national and international steering committees for acute stroke and secondary prevention trials and is a member of the Steering Committee of the Novo Nordisk F7ICH-1371 trial in intracerebral haemorrhage and Astra Zeneca NXY 059 (Cerovive) in acute stroke.
