Jeyaraj Durai Pandian, MBBS, MD, DM, FRACP

Dr. Pandian is a Professor of Neurology at Christian Medical College (CMC), Ludhiana, Punjab, India. He is also the Head of Research at the Betty Cowan Research and Innovation Centre in CMC Ludhiana. Dr. Pandian did his stroke fellowship at the Royal Brisbane and Women's Hospital, Brisbane, Australia, and he is also a Fellow of the Royal Australasian College of Physicians.

Dr. Pandian is one of the elected board of directors to the World Stroke Organisation (WSO) from South East Asia. He is also on the working committees of the World Stroke Campaign and the World Stroke Academy of WSO. Dr. Pandian is Associate Editor of the Neurology India Journal, and he is also a member of the Editorial Board of the International Journal of Stroke.

Dr. Pandian has published widely on stroke thrombolysis and stroke infrastructure in developing countries. He is the Principal Investigator for many ongoing international acute stroke trials in his centre.

Professor Peter Langhorne, Professor of Stroke Care, Cardiovascular and Medical Sciences Division

Peter Langhorne is Professor of Stroke Care at the University of Glasgow, UK. His research work has focussed on the effectiveness of different management strategies for stroke patients, including service delivery and stroke rehabilitation.

This work has involved the use of various methodological approaches and collaboration with more than 50 colleagues from around the world. During the last 15 years, he has been a coordinator and grant holder for randomised clinical trials of occupational therapy, specialist nursing, augmented physiotherapy and early mobilisation. He also has been a coordinator of systematic reviews and meta-analyses of trials of stroke units, early supported discharge services, outpatient therapy services, intensive physiotherapy input, stroke liaison worker services, and nutritional supplementation. In addition, he has served on the steering committees of trials of stroke unit care, stroke service delivery, caregiver training, botulinum toxin therapy, speech and language therapy and nutritional supplementation. He is the coordinating editor of the Cochrane Stroke Group and has worked within the Cochrane collaboration more broadly to encourage the development of evidence-based practice.

Linda De Villiers

Division of Geriatric Medicine, Department of Medicine, Groote Schuur Hospital, Cape Town, South Africa

Professor Peter Langhorne, Professor of Stroke Care, Cardiovascular and Medical Sciences Division

Peter Langhorne is Professor of Stroke Care at the University of Glasgow, UK. His research work has focussed on the effectiveness of different management strategies for stroke patients, including service delivery and stroke rehabilitation.

This work has involved the use of various methodological approaches and collaboration with more than 50 colleagues from around the world. During the last 15 years, he has been a coordinator and grant holder for randomised clinical trials of occupational therapy, specialist nursing, augmented physiotherapy and early mobilisation. He also has been a coordinator of systematic reviews and meta-analyses of trials of stroke units, early supported discharge services, outpatient therapy services, intensive physiotherapy input, stroke liaison worker services, and nutritional supplementation. In addition, he has served on the steering committees of trials of stroke unit care, stroke service delivery, caregiver training, botulinum toxin therapy, speech and language therapy and nutritional supplementation. He is the coordinating editor of the Cochrane Stroke Group and has worked within the Cochrane collaboration more broadly to encourage the development of evidence-based practice.