ANTOINE HAKIM

Antoine Hakim has published extensively on the perfusion and metabolic aspects of stroke and the molecular determinants of ischemic brain injury. His major research accomplishments include a description of the ischemic penumbra, those brain regions that may be salvageable in a stroke, and thus contributed importantly to the era of acute stroke therapy that has resulted in effective new drugs becoming available to stroke patients. More recently, investigators across Canada asked Dr. Hakim to lead a proposal to establish a Network of Centres of Excellence in Stroke, which was approved in 1999. Dr. Hakim has actively promoted the interests of science to lead to better health for Canadians.