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Virtual Global Trials Forum - Monday, November 10, 2025

CALL FOR PRESENTERS for the upcoming Virtual Global Trials Forum
Monday, Novemeber 10, 2025: 08:30AM - 09:45AM (EST)

If you or a colleague would like to present your clinical trial, please reach out to us as soon as possible, but no later than Friday, August 15, 2025. Please email proposal to Rose Beckman.

The goals of the forum are to to identify countries/networks that are a good fit to participate in the proposed trial and to provide the PI with feedback regarding the trial design/feasibility that may aid the PI in refining the protocol.

AGENDA/PRESENTERS:

8:30 am ET
Welcome and Introductions
Pooja Khatri, MD Co-Director, NIH StrokeNet, Chair, Department of Neurology, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, CT

8:40 am ET
Landscape of stroke RCT funding across Europe- results from a survey by the ESOTA
Dr. Smriti Agarwal Consultant Neurologist, Department of Stroke Medicine, Visiting Fellow, Heart Lung Research Institute/Cambridge Mathematics of Information in Healthcare Hub, Cambridge, England

Dr. Michael Knoflach Department of Neurology, Medical University of Innsbruck, Innsbruck, Tyrol Austria


9:10 am ET
EAST-STROKE Trial Update
EAST-STROKE (Early treatment of Atrial fibrillation for Stroke prevention Trial in acute STROKE) is an international investigator-initiated, prospective, randomized, open, blinded endpoint assessment (PROBE) trial to test whether early rhythm-control therapy prevents adverse cardiovascular outcome in patients with acute ischemic stroke and atrial fibrillation compared to usual care.

Dr. med. Märit Jensen Trial Coordinator and Co-PI of EAST-STROKE, Department of Neurology, The University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, Hamburg, Germany

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