Pablo Lavados, MD, MPH, is professor of Neurology at Clinica Alemana, Universidad del Desarrollo and assistant professor of Neurology at Universidad de Chile, both located in Santiago. Dr. Lavados is the director of the Stroke Unit and Vascular Neurology Program, as well as the director of the Research and Clinical Trials Unit at Clínica Alemana in Santiago. He earned his medical degree and completed postgraduate training in Neurology at Universidad de Chile. Dr. Lavados obtained a Master’s degree in Public Health at Johns Hopkins University School of Public Health, Baltimore, Maryland. He also completed a clinical research fellowship at La Sapienza, University in Rome, Italy, as well as a Postdoctoral Clinical Research Fellowship in Cerebrovascular Diseases at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. Dr. Lavados was the principal investigator of the PISCIS epidemiological stroke Project and is the country leader of three international academic clinical trials: INTERACT2, ENCHANTED and HEADPOST MAIN, organized by The George Institute for Global Heath of Australia, and the principal co-investigator of the HEADPOST PILOT clinical trial and the RECCA stroke registry in Clínica Alemana, and co-investigator in the OPTIC Stroke Registry, the SOCRATES, and NAVIGATE ESUS international clinical trials, as well as the ÑANDU stroke surveillance study in southern Chile. He has been awarded the Presidential scholarship, a PAHO schollarship and a Fulbright scholarship, among other awards. He is also a Ministry of Health advisor on the national stroke program in Chile. In his research, Dr. Lavados focuses primarily on the epidemiology of cerebrovascular disease and clinical trials in stroke. He has authored more than 30 papers in peer-reviewed journals such as The New England of Medicine, Lancet, The Lancet Neurology, Neurology, Stroke, International Journal of Stroke, Cerebrovascular Diseases, Journal of Stroke and Cerebrovascular Diseases and other. Dr. Lavados has lectured around the globe on topics that include; quality control in stroke care, organized stroke care, secondary prevention of stroke, epidemiology of stroke, thrombolysis in acute ischemic stroke and research in stroke.