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Dr. Antoine Hakim wins prestigious award

Dr. Antoine Hakim, scientific director of the Canadian Stroke Network, was awarded stroke research’s most prestigious prize at the International Stroke Conference in San Francisco.

The Thomas Willis Award, the American Stroke Association’s highest honour, recognizes a senior investigator who has made outstanding contributions to the understanding of stroke over a sustained period.

Dr. Hakim is a professor and the chair of neurology at the University of Ottawa’s Faculty of Medicine, the director of neuroscience research at the Ottawa Health Research Institute, a neurologist at the Ottawa Hospital, and the scientific director of the Heart and Stroke Foundation’s Centre for Stroke Recovery.