Stephen Gaal MS

Dr. Stephen Van Gaal is a medical degree from the University of Toronto. He completed his residency training in adult neurology at the University of Ottawa, followed by fellowship training in stroke neurology at the University of Calgary. He joined Vancouver Coastal Health and the Vancouver Stroke Program as a staff neurologist in 2017. He is currently enrolled in the Masters of Clinical Epidemiology at the University of British Columbia, with a supporting scholarship from the Canadian Institutes of Health Research.

Dr. van Gaal has an interest in strategies for the cost-effective assessment of patients with suspected strokes. He is currently organizing an observational study of emergency-department-based CT angiography in the evaluation of suspected transient ischemic attacks. He is also assisting with an observational study of the suitability of the Los Angeles Motor Scale for prehospital triage of suspected stroke.

Currently, He is working as an Associate Physician Lead and Medical Staff of Stroke Neurology at Vancouver Coastal Health and Vancouver General Hospital. He is also a Clinical Professor at the University of British Columbia.