Introduction

Else Charlotte Sandset is a neurologist and postdoctoral fellow at the Department of Neurology, Oslo University Hospital, Norway. She
received her undergraduate medical degree from the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland, in 2006, and her PhD from the University of Oslo,
Norway, in 2012. Her main area of interest is acute stroke, with special emphasis on haemodynamic variables, such as blood pressure. She was
the trial manager of the Scandinavian Candesartan Acute Stroke Trial (SCAST) and the first author of the publication of the trial results in the
Lancet. She is Chair of the Young Stroke Physician Committee of the European Stroke Organisation.