Stroke Care A practical manual

by Harwood, Rowan H.; Huwez, Farhad; Good, Dawn

• ISBN13: 9780191753336
• ISBN10: 0191753335
• Edition: 2nd
• Format: eBook
• Copyright: 2012-11-01
• Publisher: Oxford University Press

Author Biography

Rowan H. Harwood, Consultant Physician, Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust, UK,Farhad Huwez, Consultant Physician, Lead Stroke Services, Basildon and Thurrock University Hospital, Basildon, UK,Dawn Good, Clinical Stroke Service Specialist, City Hospital, Nottingham, UK

Professor Rowan Harwood was educated at Cambridge and Oxford, and trained in general medicine in Leicester and Nottingham. He moved to London as Shah Ebrahim's lecturer, where he developed an interest in stroke, institutional care and health status measurement. Courtesy of an MRC Health Services Research Training Fellowship, he undertook an MSc in epidemiology at the London School of Hygiene, and moved to the Royal Free to complete work on the London Handicap Scale. He moved back to Nottingham, as lecturer, to complete higher specialist training, and to an NHS consultant post in 1996. Professor Harwood is an active educator, at all levels and for various professional disciplines, and has served as a Foundation Programme director. He was made a special professor in geriatric medicine at the University of Nottingham in 2006.

Dr Farhad Huwez graduated in 1975 from Mosul University in Mosul, Iraq, and completed his general professional training in Mosul Teaching Hospital, before teaching in Medical school, Erbil, Iraq. In 1986, he undertook a 4 year research in cardiovascular medicine under Professors S.M Cobbe and P.W.Macfarlane of Glasgow University. Afterwards he completed higher medical training in general medicine, and geriatric medicine in Barnett and Chelsea and Westminster Hospitals. Dr Huwez has been in charge of stroke services in the Basildon area for over 10 years, and his unit currently has four full time stroke consultants and provides 24/7 services for thrombolysis in stroke.