NSW Telestroke Service - Our Neurologists

Director of Clinical Neuroscience UNSW, Prince of Wales Clinical School, Prince of Wales Hospital

Ken is a clinician scientist who has dedicated his career to improving treatment and outcomes in stroke patients. Prior to relocating to Sydney, he was a tenured Professor at the University of Alberta and held a Canada Research Chair in cerebrovascular disease. He has held continuous salary and grant-in-aid funding related to stroke research since 2006 and has more than 200 peer reviewed publications.

Medical Co-Chair Stroke Network ACI, Head of Neurology Gosford Hospital

James completed his neurology training in 2016 which included two stroke fellowships, one at Gosford Hospital and a year with the Calgary Stroke Program in Canada. He has a specific interest in neurovascular imaging and stroke systems of care implementation.  James is a full time clinician with a keen interest in service delivery improvement across the whole acute and subacute stroke patient journey. James is passionate about stroke care and using real time data analytics to allow a data driven understanding of care and an active approach towards system improvement.

Senior Staff Specialist Vascular & Interventional Neurology Royal Prince Alfred Hospital

Timothy Ang is a neurologist and interventionist at Royal Prince Alfred Hospital, Sydney. His professional and research interests revolve around novel endovascular approaches for the treatment of cerebrovascular disease. Tim also has a passion for improving and streamlining access to hyperacute stroke therapies, hence his long-term involvement with the Telestroke service. 

Staff Specialist Neurologist, Gosford & Wyong Hospitals. SPHERE Translational Research Fellow in Stroke Medicine & Senior Research Fellow, Sydney Brain Centre, Ingham Institute for Applied Medical Research, Senior Lecturer, UNSW Medical School

Chris is a stroke neurologist based at the Sydney Brain Centre, Ingham Institute for Applied Medical Research. He trained at Royal Prince Alfred Hospital (with secondments to Orange and Bathurst Base Hospitals), and has clinical appointments at Prince of Wales, Liverpool and Gosford Hospitals. He is the Sydney Partnership for Health, Education, Research & Enterprise (SPHERE) Translational Research Fellow in Stroke Medicine at Liverpool Hospital, and a Senior Lecturer at the University of New South Wales (South-Western Sydney Clinical School). He is also a former Clinical Lecturer at the University of Sydney (Central Clinical School, Royal Prince Alfred Hospital) and Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Victor Chang Cardiac Research Institute (Sydney, NSW) and Mater Medical Research Institute (Brisbane, QLD).  

Staff Specialist Neurologist, Gosford & Wyong Hospitals. Stroke Lead Central Coast Local Health District

John Hunter Hospital Stroke Neurologist

Neurologist, Gosford and Wyong Hospitals; Stroke Research Fellow, Liverpool Hospital

Leon is a clinician scientist and has completed additional fellowship training in stroke and neurophysiology.  Leon is a current PhD candidate at the Sydney Brain Centre and University of New South Wales on the topic of artificial intelligence applied to advanced medical imaging.  He is an associate investigator in more than 10 clinical trials with over 30 publications.  

John Hunter Hospital Stroke Neurologist; Director of Hunter Stroke Services; Conjoint Lecturer School of Medicine and Public Health, University of Newcastle

Carlos is a stroke neurologist and early career researcher. He undertook his clinical training in neurology in Spain and Switzerland, then undertook a Stroke Fellowship at John Hunter Hospital.  He completed a PhD program at the University of Newcastle in the field of brain perfusion imaging in acute stroke.  Carlos has been involved in over 25 acute stroke clinical trials as co-investigator and has published 57 peer-reviewed journal articles.  He was recently awarded a three-year Hunter New England Clinical and Health Service Research Fellowship to build on this work in a project titled ‘Using virtual reality to improve professional training for medical and nursing staff involved in rural and regional hyperacute stroke treatment’. Carlos is currently the Director of the Hunter Stroke Services and Stream, Conjoint Lecturer at the University of Newcastle, and a member of the Hunter New England Ethics Committee.

Director of Acute Stroke Services, John Hunter Hospital; Co-Director, Hunter Medical Research Institute Heart and Stroke Research Program; Laboratory Head, Translational Stroke Research Laboratory, School of Biomedical Sciences and Pharmacy, University of Newcastle

Neil is a research-focussed neurologist and basic scientist. With their Central Coast colleagues, the John Hunter Hospital acute stroke research team conducted the pilot study of advanced imaging-supported telestroke in Northern NSW which was the first in the world to show the great value of such an approach.  The John Hunter Hospital acute stroke research team has also worked closely with NSW Ambulance to develop systems to get the right patients to the best treatment, faster, and have led and participated in numerous clinical trials, to develop better stroke therapies. Neil’s laboratory team have made important discoveries about mechanisms of brain injury after stroke and are developing new therapies to enhance blood flow to the at-risk brain regions of stroke patients.