Ashkan Shomanesh, Scientist at PHRI, has been awarded the 2020 American Academy of Neurology (AAN) Michael S. Pessin Stroke Leadership Award.
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Ashkan Shoamanesh
The AAN cites his qualifications as including “a high level of productivity and academic achievements… [with] 34 first or senior author publications…[and] a strong level of funding support.”
The academy also noted that early on in his career, Shoamanesh became a leader in the field of intracerebral hemorrhage [ICH] research and studies devoted to brain microbleeds.”
Shoamanesh cited his “collaborators and valued mentors without whom my work would not be possible.”
He added that “meaningful clinical research is a concentrated team effort, particularly in a challenging field such as ICH.”
Watch Shoamanesh’s presentation given at the 2020 (online AAN Awards).