Katarina Jood MD, PhD

Katarina Jood is an Senior Lecturer, Medical Doctor at the University of Gothenburg. She specialized in Neuroscience. Katarina Jood, chief physician and associate professor of neurology, says. For two years she and her colleagues have lived with the planning of the conference And now it's time. On May 16-18, the city will be invaded by researchers and clinics in the area. It will be so fun and exciting. It's a great program. Major clinical trials in progress around the world on stroke will be presented by the leading researchers, she says. She cites as an example a study concerning "wake up stroke", ie the patients who wake up in the morning and have had a stroke. It is a large group of patients. But so far it has been difficult to give these patients an effective treatment.

Now they will present results from a study where they tested using advanced diagnostic imaging methods of the brain in wake-up strokes to find patients who can benefit from acute thrombolytic treatment. If the results look promising, it can lead to these patients also being offered treatment, says Katarina Jood.

She believes that extremely much has happened in the stroke area over the past 20 years.

Many more lives can be saved and those who survive have fewer disabilities. And a lot is going on in research, as you can see in the program for the conference.