Deans' stroke musings: George Howard, DrPH, named leading stroke scientist by the American Stroke Association

Changing stroke rehab and research worldwide now.Time is Brain! trillions and trillions of neurons that DIE each day because there are NO effective hyperacute therapies besides tPA(only 12% effective). I have 523 posts on hyperacute therapy, enough for researchers to spend decades proving them out. These are my personal ideas and blog on stroke rehabilitation and stroke research. Do not attempt any of these without checking with your medical provider. Unless you join me in agitating, when you need these therapies they won't be there.

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My blog is not to help survivors recover, it is to have the 10 million yearly stroke survivors light fires underneath their doctors, stroke hospitals and stroke researchers to get stroke solved. 100% recovery. The stroke medical world is completely failing at that goal, they don't even have it as a goal. Shortly after getting out of the hospital and getting NO information on the process or protocols of stroke rehabilitation and recovery I started searching on the internet and found that no other survivor received useful information. This is an attempt to cover all stroke rehabilitation information that should be readily available to survivors so they can talk with informed knowledge to their medical staff. It lays out what needs to be done to get stroke survivors closer to 100% recovery. It's quite disgusting that this information is not available from every stroke association and doctors group.

Wednesday, February 22, 2023

George Howard, DrPH, named leading stroke scientist by the American Stroke Association

This is how fucking bad the stroke medical world is. Nothing on getting survivors recovered. This is why we need survivors in charge. We would actually solve stroke instead of wasting resources like this.

After looking at 10 pages searching for 'george howard stroke' in Google Scholar I saw nothing on getting survivors recovered. Lots on stroke risk and the stroke belt but NOTHING on survivor recovery! In my opinion an invalid award.

George Howard, DrPH, named leading stroke scientist by the American Stroke Association

The American Stroke Association has named George Howard, DrPH, distinguished professor of Biostatistics in the University of Alabama at Birmingham School of Public Health, the winner of the David G. Sherman Lecture Award. The award recognizes lifetime contributions for investigation, management, mentorship and community service in the stroke field. (Wow, nothing that got survivors recovered!)

Howard is an internationally renowned expert in the study of risk factors for stroke and other cardiovascular diseases. He is the principal investigator for the UAB REasons for Geographic and Racial Differences in Stroke study, or REGARDS, a national study that examines why more African Americans die from strokes than do other races, and why people in the Southeast develop more strokes than other areas of the nation. The study has received nearly $100 million in funding from the National Institutes of Health since it began in 2003.

Howard’s career in public health and medicine spans more than 40 years, with more than 20 years at UAB. He has published 21 book chapters, 565 articles and eight letters in an array of biomedical areas, with emphasis on biostatistics and epidemiology methods, stroke, chronic disease epidemiology, and neurological diseases. His most recent paper, published in the medical journal Neurology, found the impact of certain stroke risks differed between age groups. Specifically, high blood pressure and diabetes were more significant factors in younger populations than in those older than 74.

“UAB is fortunate to have George Howard — for a biostatistician to be awarded the David G. Sherman Lecture Award is a phenomenal achievement,” said Paul Erwin, M.D., DrPH, dean of the UAB School of Public Health. “His work is directly contributing to the health and well-being of millions of people who are at risk for adverse stroke-related outcomes. It is an honor to have him as a colleague.”