Claudio Baracchini MD

Prof. Dr. Baracchini serves as Director of the Stroke Center and Neurovascular Ultrasound Laboratory at the University of Padua School of Medicine in Italy. He started his training at the University of Toronto where he also completed a specialist program in Neuroscience, continued his training in Neurosonology at the University of Zurich and at the University of Giessen. He was the recipient of the Young Investigators Award at the first Meeting of the European Society of Neurosonology and Cerebral Hemodynamics (ESNCH) held in Munich in 1996. He has authored and co-authored more than 170 publications (original papers, editorials, invited publications and book chapters), mainly in the fields of vascular neurology and neurosonology. He is a reviewer for many international journals among which Stroke, Neurology, The Lancet, Journal of Neuroimaging. He has organized several congresses, teaching courses and tutorials and received more than 100 invitations for lectures in National and International Conferences. Since 2006 he is the Secretary General of the ESNCH; he is also a Member of the International Certification Commission for Neurosonology, a Member of the Executive Committee of the Italian Stroke Organization and President Elect of the Italian Society of Neurosonology and Cerebral Hemodynamics.