Why Virtual Neurological Centre?

Aim

Our aim is to help patients, physicians and specialists to be better informed about the neurological system and related topics.

About the Neuro Centre

The virtualneurocentre.com reaches patients, their families and friends and also neurologists, neuroscientists and other medical specialists involved in the diagnosis, treatment, and support of people with neurological conditions. It is one of nineteen individual information centres within the Virtual Medical Centre (as shown below).

Each centre is complete with information on drugs, disease, treatment, trials, symptoms, support and breaking news. The information posted is Australian specific and updated every 12 hours by a team of medical researchers.

Each centre has a Medical Director who works on ensuring the quality of information on the site is maintained and continually enhanced.

Professor Graeme Hankey is the Medical Director of the Virtual Neuro Centre.

Professor Hankey, MBBS, MD, FRCP (Lond), FRCP (Edin), FRACP is a Consultant Neurologist and Head of the Stroke Unit at Royal Perth Hospital, Western Australia, and Clinical Professor, School of Medicine and Pharmacology, The University of Western Australia.

He received his undergraduate medical training at the University of Western Australia, and trained in neurology at the Royal Perth Hospital; Mayo Clinic, USA; and Western General Hospital, Edinburgh, UK. Since 1992, he has held a full time hospital appointment as a Consultant Neurologist and tries to integrate clinical practice with clinical research.

His main research interests include epidemiological studies and clinical trials of treatment strategies for acute stroke and stroke prevention (such as the Perth Community Stroke Study, for which he is a co-principal investigator, and the VITAmins To Prevent Stroke (VITATOPS) trial, for which he is the principal investigator). He is currently a member of numerous professional associations, including the Board of the International Stroke Society, Council of the Australian Association of Neurologists, the Association of British Neurologists, and the Scientific Council of the American Stroke Association/American Heart Association.

The author or co-author of 6 books on stroke and clinical neurology, Professor Hankey received the 1997 Royal Society of Medicine Medical Book Award, Advanced Author Book category, for Stroke: A Practical Guide to Management (Blackwell Scientific Publications, Oxford). He also shares his literary expertise as an associate editor of Stroke, an editorial consultant at The Lancet, a member of the editorial boards of the Cochrane Stroke Review Group, Practical Neurology, Australian Journal of General Practice, and Cerebrovascular Disease Foreign Medical Sciences, and a member of the advisory board of Cerebrovascular Diseases. Professor Hankey has contributed more than 250 articles to peer-reviewed medical journals and has given more than 300 invited presentations at international, national, and local scientific meetings.

As Medical Director, Professor Hankey is also assisted by an Editorial Advisory Board (EAB).  

Editorial Advisory Board

The EAB is a group of medical specialists who have formed together in their particular area of medical expertise to contribute comments and feedback on the information that is displayed on the relevant centre. The Virtual Medical Centre's EAB consists of over 1,000 medical professionals.

Click on the link below to view the Neuro Centre's Editorial Advisory Board.