Valery Feigin

Valery Feigin is the Director of the National Institute for Stroke and Applied Neurosciences, Auckland University of Technology, New Zealand, and Affiliate Professor of the University of Washington, USA. He is also a Visiting Professor of the Capital Medical University of China, Honorary Professor of the Novosibirsk State Medical University, a Fellow of the Royal Society of New Zealand, American Academy of Neurology, and Russian Academy of Sciences.
Professor Feigin’s prime research interest is in the epidemiology, prevention and management of stroke, dementia and traumatic brain injury. Valery’s Global Burden of Disease (GBD) research has helped to transform stroke and other neurological disorders healthcare policy in 195 countries, including national and international guidelines and a historical change in the WHO International Classification of Diseases (ICD-11) in which stroke was, for the first time, placed under the diseases of the nervous system.