“If I have seen further, it is by standing on the shoulders of giants.” – Isaac Newton
List of national and international collaborations
Professor Murray C. Killingsworth, Ph.D. FRMS FFSc (RCPA)
NSW Health Pathology, UNSW Medicine, Ingham Institute and Liverpool Hospital, Sydney, Australia.
Area/Discipline: Pathology and Imaging
Prof Murray Killingsworth (B App Sc, FRMS, PhD, FFSc (RCPA)) is a leading Australian scientist in correlative microscopy and pathology. Prof Killingsworth is the co-Director of NSW Brain Clot Bank. Professor Killingsworth is currently Principal Scientist at the Electron Microscopy Laboratory of New South Wales Health Pathology & Liverpool Hospital, and Chair of Human Research Ethics Committee at the SWSLHD. He is a Conjoint Associate Professor of the South Western Sydney Clinical School, University of New South Wales (UNSW), and a Conjoint Professor of the School of Medicine, University of Western Sydney (UWS). His expertise in ultra-resolution microscopy and pathology has been pivotal to the ongoing efforts and clot pathology workflow optimization. In 2010. Dr. Killingsworth was awarded a Founding Fellowship of the Faculty of Science of the Royal College of Pathologists of Australasia. Prof Killingsworth is the recipient of the prestigious 2018 Lady Mary Fairfax Distinguished Researcher Award. Prof. Killingsworth has had a long-standing and ongoing collaboration with Dr. Sonu M. M. Bhaskar.
Professor Roy G. Beran, MBBS MD FRACP FRACGP FACLM FRCP
Liverpool Hospital, UNSW Medicine and South Western Sydney Local Health District (SWSLHD), Sydney
Prof Roy Beran with Dr Sonu M. M. Bhaskar
Area/Discipline: Neurology, Stroke and Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI)
Prof Roy G. Beran MBBS, MD, FRACP, FRACGP, FACLM, FRCP, FFFLM is a leading Australian neurologist and researcher specializing in stroke, traumatic brain injury, and epilepsy. He is the Professor of Medicine in the South Western Sydney Clinical School of the University of New South Wales and is a senior neurologist at the Department of Neurology, Liverpool Hospital in Sydney. He also holds a professorship at Griffith University in Queensland and Professorship, Chair, at Sechenov Moscow First State University, Russia. He served as Consultant Neurologist to the Royal Australian Navy, since 1982, Rank CMDR Rtd, was the President of the Australian College of Legal Medicine, and is a Fellow of the Royal Australasian College of Physicians, Australian Faculty of Public Health Medicine, and Royal College of General Practitioners. Dr. Beran has published >350 peer-reviewed articles and 17 Books related to epilepsy, law, or neurology. Prof Beran was awarded the Member of the Order of Australia (AM) in 2015 for significant service to medicine, particularly neurology, as a clinician, author, and administrator, and to professional medical bodies.
Dr. Sonu Bhaskar has had a long-standing collaboration (>5 years) with Prof Beran on various aspects of neurology, more specifically in stroke and TBI.
Dr. Tzipi Cohen-Hyams, PhD
Correlative Microscopy, Ingham Institute, and UNSW, Australia
Area/Discipline: Pathology and Imaging
Dr. Zeljka Calic, MD PhD FRACP
Liverpool Hospital, UNSW Medicine and South Western Sydney Local Health District (SWSLHD), Sydney
Dr. Zeljka Calic & Dr Stojan Peric (Right) and Dr Sonu Bhaskar (Left)
Area/Discipline: Posterior Circulation Stroke
Professor Peter Stanwell, PhD
Professor of Medical Radiation Sciences, University of Newcastle, Australia
Fullbright Fellow and Visiting Scientist, McGovern Institute for Brain Research, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Boston, USA
Formerly, MRI Physicist at Brigham and Women’s Hospital (Boston, Massachusetts, USA) and Instructor in Radiology at Harvard Medical School (2008-2011)
Area/Discipline: Neuroimaging, Stroke, and Radiology
Professor Peter Stanwell is a Professor at the University of Newcastle, Hunter Medical Research Institute (HMRI), and John Hunter Hospital, Newcastle, Australia. He was previously employed as an MRI Physicist at Brigham and Women’s Hospital (Boston, Massachusetts, USA) and Instructor in Radiology at Harvard Medical School (2008-2011) before relocating to Newcastle. Most recently, Prof Stanwell was a Visiting Scientist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) (Boston, Massachusetts, USA) where he undertook a Fulbright Fellowship at the McGovern Institute for Brain Research at MIT.
A/Professor John Worthington, MD PhD FRACP
Director of Comprehensive Stroke Center, Royal Prince Alfred Hospital and Sydney Local Health District (SLHD), Sydney
Area/Discipline: Stroke, Health Systems, and Neuroimaging
A/Professor Dennis Cordato, MBBS PhD FRACP
Senior Staff Neurologist and Head of Stroke Research, Department of Neurology, Liverpool Hospital, UNSW Medicine and SWSLHD, Sydney
Area/Discipline: Stroke and Health Systems
Dr. Peter Thomas, PhD
Team Lead, South West Sydney Neurosciences Data Analytics, Liverpool Hospital, Ingham Institute, and SWSLHD, Sydney
Area/Discipline: Stroke, Big data, Neuroepidemiology
Professor Maciej Banach, MD PhD
Professor of Cardiology and Head, Department of Hypertension at Medical University of Lodz, Poland
President, Polish Mother’s Memorial Hospital, Cardiovascular Research Centre, University of Zielona Gora, Poland
Area/Discipline: Cardiovascular Medicine, COVID-19, Consortium, Telemedicine
Professor Robert Weissert, MD PhD
Department of Neurology, University of Regensburg and Regensburg University Hospital, Germany
Area/Discipline: Neuroimmunology, COVID-19 & Telemedicine
Professor Pascal Jabbour, MD PhD FAAN
Professor, Neurological Surgery and The Angela and Richard T. Clark Distinguished Professor and Division Chief, Neurovascular Surgery & Endovascular Neurosurgery
Thomas Jefferson University Hospital, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
Area/Discipline: Stroke, Telemedicine, Neurointervention, Acute Neurology, Consortium
Dr. Abilash Haridas, MD
Head of Pediatric Neurosurgery, Cerebrovascular and Skull Base Neurosurgery, St Joseph’s Hospital, Tampa, Florida, USA
Area/Discipline: Stroke, Neurointervention, Acute Neurology, Consortium
Dr. Bella Huasen, MD PhD
Department of Interventional Radiology, Lancashire University Teaching Hospitals, Lancashire Care NHS Foundation Trust, Preston, NHS, UK
Area/Discipline: Stroke, Neurointervention, Acute Neurology, Consortium
Dr. Negman Alvarado, MD PhD
Centro Médico de Mendoza, Godoy Cruz, Mendoza, Argentina
Area/Discipline: Neurology, Consortium, Telemedicine
Dr. Dmitrios Chatzis, MD PhD
Consultant Cardiologist and Senior Lecturer, Medical School, European University Cyprus, Nicosia, Cyprus.
Area/Discipline: Cardiovascular Medicine, Cardiology, Diabetes
A/Professor Greg Kaplan, PhD
Chief Operating Officer, Woolcock Institute of Medical Research and UNSW Sydney, Sydney, Australia
Area/Discipline: Health Systems and NSW Brain Clot Bank Governance
A/Professor Kevin Spring, PhD
Associate Professor (Medical Oncology), CONCERT, Ingham Institute, Western Sydney University, and UNSW Sydney, Sydney, Australia
Area/Discipline: Biobanking and Pathology
Dr. Jennifer Aung, MD PhD
Clinical Trials Unit, Ingham Institute, Liverpool Hospital & SWSLHD, Sydney
Area/Discipline: Biobanking and Clinical Trials
Professor Timo Minssen, PhD
Professor and Director, Centre for Advanced Studies in Biomedical Innovation Law, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark
Area/Discipline: Artificial Intelligence, Telemedicine, and Biomedical Innovation
Dr. Alma Nurtazina, MD PhD
Department of Internal Medicine and Public Health, Semey Medical University, Kazakhstan
Area/Discipline: Cardiovascular Medicine and Telemedicine
Dr. Simon Israeli-Korn, MD PhD
Department of Neurology, Sheba Medical Center and Sackler School of Medicine, Movement Disorders Institute, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv-Yafo, Israel
Area/Discipline: Neurology and Telemedicine
Dr. Jeremy Howick, PhD
Director, Oxford Empathy Programme, University of Oxford, UK
Area/Discipline: Social Medicine
Dr. K Valsraj Menon, MD
Department of Psychiatry, South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust, Kings Health Partners and NHS, London, United Kingdom
Area/Discipline: Social Medicine and Mental Health
Dr. Viviana Mucci, PhD
Santa Lucia Foundation, Rome, Italy
Area/Discipline: Telemedicine and Digital Health
Professor Beena Kunheri, MD & Dr. Sindhu Balakrishnan, MD
Amrita Institute of Medical Sciences, Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham, Kochi, India
Area/Discipline: Social Medicine
Dr Steven Kanter, MD
President & CEO, Association of Academic Health Centers International (AAHC-I), Washington DC, USA
Area/Discipline: Healthcare Leadership
Dr. Alan McDougall, MD Ph.D. FRACP
Head of Neurology, Liverpool Hospital, UNSW Medicine and South West Sydney Local Health District, Sydney, Australia
Area/Discipline: Neurology and Health Systems
Professor Roger Wilson, MD PhD
Past Chief Pathologist, NSW Health Pathology, Sydney, Australia
Area/Discipline: Biobanking, Pathology and Health Systems
Professor Rajeev Kumar, MD PhD
Consultant Psychiatrist, Australian National University and Canberra University Hospital, Canberra, Australia, and Qatar Medical Center, Doha, Qatar
Area/Discipline: Cognitive Neurology and Mental Health
A/Professor Stojan Peric, MD PhD
Department for Neuromuscular Disorders, Neurology Clinic, University of Belgrade, Serbia
Area/Discipline: Neuroimmunology and Neuroimaging
Professor Bindu Menon, MD PhD
Department of Neurology, Apollo Hospitals, Nellore, India
Area/Discipline: Neurology and Community Medicine
Professor Ole Doering, PhD
Global Health Hub Germany and Berlin Institute for Global Health, Berlin, Germany
Area/Discipline: Humanities, Social Medicine and Ethics