This 2½-day conference provides a forum in which to present recent scientific work related to stroke and cerebrovascular disease. More than 900 abstract presentations, lectures and debates will be featured. This year, special symposia and debates will focus on numerous topics including: brain repair after stroke; state-of-the-art surgical and endovascular treatment for intracranial occlusive disease; the economics of stroke (debate); subarachnoid hemorrhage: current protocols and future prospective; new approaches to the decision to anticoagulate; vascular cognitive impairment and Alzheimer Disease; HIV and cerebrovascular disease; comprehensive stroke centers: the future of stroke care; informed consent: have we gone too far or not far enough?; controversies in the management of cerebral arteriovenous malformations: where we are and can ARUBA help? (debate); and emerging new mechanisms for ionic imbalance and cell death in ischemic brain damage. Sessions in clinical categories will center on diagnosis, acute management, in-hospital treatment, rehabilitation and recovery, pediatric stroke, prevention, community/risk factors, nursing, emergency medicine, outcomes and vascular cognitive impairment. Sessions in surgical and interventional categories will focus on aneurysm, carotid revascularization, intracranial atherosclerotic occlusive disease, ischemic stroke intervention, SAH management and vascular malformations.

This 2½-day conference provides a forum in which to present recent scientific work related to stroke and cerebrovascular disease. More than 900 abstract presentations, lectures and debates will be featured. This year, special symposia and debates will focus on numerous topics including: brain repair after stroke; state-of-the-art surgical and endovascular treatment for intracranial occlusive disease; the economics of stroke (debate); subarachnoid hemorrhage: current protocols and future prospective; new approaches to the decision to anticoagulate; vascular cognitive impairment and Alzheimer Disease; HIV and cerebrovascular disease; comprehensive stroke centers: the future of stroke care; informed consent: have we gone too far or not far enough?; controversies in the management of cerebral arteriovenous malformations: where we are and can ARUBA help? (debate); and emerging new mechanisms for ionic imbalance and cell death in ischemic brain damage. Sessions in clinical categories will center on diagnosis, acute management, in-hospital treatment, rehabilitation and recovery, pediatric stroke, prevention, community/risk factors, nursing, emergency medicine, outcomes and vascular cognitive impairment. Sessions in surgical and interventional categories will focus on aneurysm, carotid revascularization, intracranial atherosclerotic occlusive disease, ischemic stroke intervention, SAH management and vascular malformations.

The conference provides an educational experience for neurologists, neurosurgeons, neurointerventionalists, neuroradiologists, endovascular specialists, physiatrists, emergency medicine specialists, nurses, pharmacists, allied health professionals and basic researchers in the major fields of cerebrovascular disease and stroke: experimental models and translational research, physiology, pathology, diagnosis, treatment, prevention and rehabilitation. At the conclusion of the conference, learners should be able to:

• Examine recent advances in basic models of stroke and translational research
• Evaluate recent advances in the diagnosis, treatment, prevention and rehabilitation of stroke and cerebrovascular disease
• Analyze new and ongoing clinical research advances through late-breaking science and ongoing clinical trials sessions
• Create a forum for the exchange of new research, treatment and intervention by scientists and investigators working in all areas of stroke and cerebrovascular disease

After attending the International Stroke Conference, participants will be able to

• Describe the most recent stroke clinical trials that may impact the specialties of stroke care
• Interpret neurovascular treatments and interventions that are new in stroke care
• Appraise key findings in translational and clinical stroke research
• Compare and contrast stroke in women, children and minorities
• Debate epigenetics and stroke prevention
• Assess stroke systems of care networking through technology
• Summarize novel areas of clinical and experimental stroke recovery and rehabilitation