I am currently a neurology medical specialist and Director of the Comprehensive Stroke Center (CSC) of the Department of Neuroscience, Hospital Clinic de Barcelona. The CSC is a national and international reference center for assistance and research in Cerebrovascular Pathology that has received the TOP 20 ASIST award from Spanish healthcare centers in the last 5 years for its medical-surgical activity in stroke; due to this experience I have also been a member of the Executive Committee of the European Therapeutic Guides for Stroke since 2003. On the other hand, in the area of research I was Coordinator of the Stroke Immunology Research Section of the European Stroke Organization and its Vice President (2010-1014); likewise, since 2012 I am the Coordinator of the Group of Brain ischemia: clinical and experimental studies at the August Pi i Sunyer Biomedical Research Institute (IDIBAPS), my group has obtained funding from the Spanish Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness on a regular basis from 1995 to date. This regularity has originated more than 200 original articles in the Stroke area, all of them in prestigious scientific journals with high impact factor, in addition to some registered patents. Regarding teaching, I am a Professor of Neurology at the University of Barcelona, having directed 8 doctoral theses throughout all these years, as well as an Associate Professor at the University of Iowa Health Care.