International Section for Early Career and Training Stroke Beyond Borders: Building Strategies to Improve Stroke Care Worldwide

HomeStrokeVol. 54, No. 8International Section for Early Career and Training Stroke Beyond Borders: Building Strategies to Improve Stroke Care Worldwide No AccessResearch ArticleRequest AccessFull TextAboutView Full TextView PDFView EPUBSections ToolsAdd to favoritesDownload citationsTrack citationsPermissions ShareShare onFacebookTwitterLinked InMendeleyReddit Jump toNo AccessResearch ArticleRequest AccessFull TextInternational Section for Early Career and Training Stroke Beyond Borders: Building Strategies to Improve Stroke Care Worldwide Ana Claudia de Souza, Vasileios Lioutas, Ivy Sebastian, Wan Asyraf, Pablo Amaya, Eva Rocha, Meron Gebrewold, Miguel A. Barboza and Sheila Cristina Ouriques Martins Ana Claudia de SouzaAna Claudia de Souza https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8722-9988 Department of Neurology, Hospital Moinhos de Vento, Brazil (A.C.d.S., S.C.O.M.). Search for more papers by this author , Vasileios LioutasVasileios Lioutas https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8521-0036 Department of Neurology, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA (V.L.). Search for more papers by this author , Ivy SebastianIvy Sebastian https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9196-3130 Department of Neurology, St. Stephen’s Hospital, Delhi, India (I.S.). Search for more papers by this author , Wan AsyrafWan Asyraf https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0880-3591 Medical Department, Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia Medical Center, Kuala Lumpur (W.A.). Search for more papers by this author , Pablo AmayaPablo Amaya https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5371-1311 Department of Neurology, Stroke Program, Fundación Valle del Lili, Cali, Colombia (P.A.). Search for more papers by this author , Eva RochaEva Rocha https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0981-3919 Department of Neurology, Federal University of São Paulo, Brazil (E.R.). Search for more papers by this author , Meron GebrewoldMeron Gebrewold Correspondence to: Meron Gebrewold, MD, Department of Neurology, Addis Ababa University, NBH1, 4killo King George VI St, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. Email E-mail Address: [email protected] https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8839-6497 Department of Neurology, College of Health Sciences, Addis Ababa University, Ethiopia (M.G.). Search for more papers by this author , Miguel A. BarbozaMiguel A. Barboza https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1037-962X Department of Neurosciences, Hospital Dr. Rafael A. Calderón Guardia, San José, Costa Rica (M.A.B.). Search for more papers by this author and Sheila Cristina Ouriques MartinsSheila Cristina Ouriques Martins https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8452-712X Department of Neurology, Hospital Moinhos de Vento, Brazil (A.C.d.S., S.C.O.M.). Hospital de Clínicas de Porto Alegre, Brazil (S.C.O.M.). Search for more papers by this author Originally published2 Jun 2023https://doi.org/10.1161/STROKEAHA.122.038459Stroke. 2023;54:e399–e402FootnotesThe opinions expressed in this article are not necessarily those of the editors or of the American Heart Association.For Sources of Funding and Discloures, see page e401.Correspondence to: Meron Gebrewold, MD, Department of Neurology, Addis Ababa University, NBH1, 4killo King George VI St, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. Email merianair@yahoo.comREFERENCES1. GBD 2019 Stroke Collaborators. Global, regional, and national burden of stroke and its risk factors, 1990-2019: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2019.Lancet Neurol. 2021; 20:795–820. doi: 10.1016/S1474-4422(21)00252-0CrossrefMedlineGoogle Scholar2. Forouzanfar MH, Alexander L, Anderson HR, Bachman VF, Biryukov S, Brauer M, Burnett R, Casey D, Coates MC, Cohen A, et al. 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