East Kent University Trust for a year’s further training in acute stroke management.
(Professor Patrick Pullicino)
This year would normally apply for neurologists that have finished their neurology training. Neurologists who choose to take this opportunity would formally be dually accredited in both neurology and stroke medicine. It would provide you with all the skills necessary to set up your own stroke unit and to start treating acute strokes with intravenous tPA. It would also be an opportunity for neurologists whose academic interests have been in a different neurological area who would now like to develop an academic interest in vascular and cardiac neurology.
The East Kent University Trust has been at the forefront of developing acute stroke care and we have 24 hour, 7 days a week coverage of the three main area hospitals for emergency stroke treatment via a telemedicine link. Neurologists and Stroke Physicians jointly cover the acute stroke cover and we also have a daily Transient Ischaemic Attack Clinic at each of the three hospitals. We are working closely with vascular surgery, and our endovascular team in developing acute treatment for TIA and stroke, and hope to develop acute endovascular services.
I personally have over ten years of experience with acute stroke thrombolysis and have worked as a stroke neurologist in the US since 1992. My main academic interest is in the cerebral effects of heart failure including stroke. I am planning to start a study in September with UCL, St George’s, Kings College in London, Birmingham and Krakow comparing infarct volume in acute stroke between patients with normal and low ejection fraction. The stroke SpR would have the opportunity to be centrally involved in this study.
Together with neurology colleagues, Dr Steve Pollock and Dr Neil Munro and Stroke physician colleagues, Drs Hargroves, Smithard, Baht, Guna and Thomas we are working to make East Kent a model for stroke care in the UK.
Should you be interested in learning more about this position, please email Dr Steve Pollock (steve.pollock@ekht.nhs.uk) or Professor Patrick Pullicino (patrick.pullicino@ekht.nhs.uk). Informal visits to the department would be very welcome.
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