Alastair is he director of Oxford in Berlin, a professor of Stroke Medicine in the Radcliffe Department of Medicine at the John Radcliffe Hospital and a professorial fellow in Medicine at Corpus Christi College, Oxford. Alastair is a key member of our International Advisory Council, chaired by Dr James Grotta. His research interests are in neuronal survival following ischemia and effective intervention using thrombolysis, thrombectomy and neuroprotection in acute stroke.