Canadian Neurologist Receives Karolinska Stroke Award

Dr Henry JM Barnett, London, Ontario, receives the Karolinska Stroke Award for excellence in stroke research. The prize amounts to 100,000 SEK. The laureate will receive the prize from the President of Karolinska Institutet Harriet Wallberg-Henriksson during the Karolinska Stroke Update meeting in Stockholm on November 17, 2008. Dr Barnett’s key research field is the prevention of stroke. He coordinated the North American Symptomatic Carotid Endarterectomy Trial (NASCET).

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Filed under: Neurology / Neuroscience on October 29th, 2008