Section Editor, Practice Current

Aravind Ganesh, MD, DPhil

Dr. Ganesh is a stroke and cognitive neurologist and an Assistant Professor at the University of Calgary’s Department of Clinical Neurosciences. After graduating from the University of Calgary’s MD program, he was awarded a Rhodes Scholarship to pursue a DPhil in Clinical Neurosciences at the University of Oxford’s Centre for Prevention of Stroke and Dementia, as part of the Oxford Vascular Study. He also co-led a collaboration with McGill University to study blood-based biomarkers in Alzheimer’s disease. While at Oxford, he earned an Associate Fellowship from the Higher Education Academy via his contributions as a Clinical Teaching Associate and Junior Dean at St John’s College, providing hospital-based teaching for medical students.

Following his neurology residency in Calgary, he completed a postdoctoral fellowship in cognitive and vascular neurology, funded by the Canadian Institutes of Health Research and Alberta Innovates. As a clinician-scientist, he now uses the twin tools of epidemiology and clinical trials to improve therapies and outcomes for patients with stroke and vascular cognitive impairment or dementia. He also has a passion for digital health innovation, particularly image-guided therapies, clinical decision support tools, and remote monitoring for patients with neurological diseases.

In addition to being a section editor for the “Practice Current” section of Neurology: Clinical Practice, Dr. Ganesh also serves as a deputy section editor for the “Disputes and Debates” section of Neurology, and serves on the editorial board of Stroke and on Quality Improvement initiatives for the American Academy of Neurology (AAN).