Editorial Board - World Stroke Academy

Octavio Marques Pontes-Neto

Editor in Chief

Assoc. Prof. Octavio Marques Pontes-Neto is Neurologist and Head of the service of Vascular Neurology and Neurological Emergencies of the Hospital das Clinicas de Ribeirão Preto, in Brazil. He was President of the Brazilian Stroke Society from 2016 to 2018. He currently works as an Associate Professor of Neurology at the Ribeirão Preto Medical School, University of São Paulo. He is the Chair of the Brazilian Stroke Research Network. He is also the co-chair of the World Stroke Organization Education Committee.

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Epifania Collantes

Associate Commissioning Editor

Dr. Epifania Collantes is a Stroke Neurologist and Associate Professor at the University of the Philippines Manila, Philippines. She is the co-chair of the World Stroke Organization Education Committee and serves the World Stroke Academy as the Associate Commissioning Editor, reviewing educational material, overseeing the creation of course curriculums and contributing to the planning of the Academy's educational yearly calendar.

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Laura Ceci Galanos

Executive Manager

Laura Ceci Galanos is Online Learning Specialist and works as Executive Manager for the WSA. Her educational background is in Communications, with a degree from the University of Rome La Sapienza, Italy and she has since then increasingly worked in the field of online education and social media branding. Her current responsibilities involve maintaining the existing e-learning portal, creating new education activities and webinars, among other activity formats, and supervising/monitoring the WSA social media.

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Rodrigo Guerrero

Social Media Leader

Rodrigo is a neurologist with a stroke-based practice in Santiago, Chile, currently working at the Santiago Oriente Hospital, and Clínica Santa María, instructor of Neurology at the Universidad de los Andes Neurology Residency Program, member of the Neurohospitalist and Cerebrovascular Disease Working Team from the Neurology, Psychiatry and Neurosurgery Society of Chile, SONEPSYN, and part of the Neurology Advisory Group from the Chilean Ministry of Health.

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Florencia Casagrande

Communication Specialist

Florencia Casagrande is a Community Manager based in Argentina with experience in public relations and generation of social media content. In her role as Communication specialist, Florencia will develop a communication strategy and the visual image of the WSA for its social media channels, focusing not only on image designs, but also creating useful infographics for the community.

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