Policy and Strategy on Stroke
and Transient Ischemic Attack
Italy-UK
Summit
12th
February 2009
The Italian Cultural
Institute
39 Belgrave Square, London
SW1X 8NX
This summit is organized by the Italian
Embassy in London
in
collaboration with, and co-sponsored by, GE Healthcare
9:00 Registration
and refreshments
9:30 Welcome
HE Giancarlo Aragona, Italian
Ambassador
9:40 Management
of Stroke and TIA. What I do today, what I would like to do but I can't.
Dott.
Giuseppe Micieli – IRCCS “Humanitas” – Italy
Dr Matthew
Giles – University of Oxford – UK
10:30 Same
day evaluation in predicting Stroke in patients having suffered of
TIA. What is needed? The TIA registry
Professor
Pierre Amarenco – INSERM and D.Diderot University – Paris, France
10:50 Coffee break
11:10 Imaging
of TIA and Stroke
Professor
Leif Østergaard – University of Aarhus - Denmark
11:30 Roll-out
of the Stroke and TIA strategy in UK and Italy. Service Organisation
and Policy Funding
Prof.
Domenico Inzitari – Università di Firenze – Italy
Professor
Roger Boyle – Department of Health - UK
12:30 Lunch
13:30 Stroke
and TIA Clinic. Regional Implementation of the Strategy in UK and Italy
Dr Peter Elton
– Bury Primary Care Trust – UK
Prof.
Domenico Inzitari – Italian Stroke Forum - Italy
14:10 How
to improve awareness, recognition and presentation of TIA and Stroke
patients
Dr Joe Korner
– The Stroke Association – UK
Prof.
Maria Luisa Sacchetti – Associazione Pazienti ALICE– Italy
14:50 Management
of Stroke and TIA. From clinical evidence to implementation
Round Table Discussion
Chair: Professor Roger Boyle, National Director for Heart Disease and
Stroke, Dept. of Health, UK
Co-chair: Prof. Marco Leonardi, President, European Society of Neuroradiology
Panelists:
Dr Miguel Gallofrè, Departament
de Salut, Barcelona, Spain
Prof. Domico Inzitari, President, Italian Stroke Forum
Prof. Zoltan Nagy, Hungary
Professor Leif Østergaard,
Univ. of Aarhus, Denmark
Ms Franca Piepenbrock, German Stroke Foundation
Prof. Valentin Sinitsyn, Federal Centre of Medicine and Rehabilitation,
Russia
with direct participation by all the attendees
16:15 Close
