Dr Joseph Kwan MD FRCP FESO FAHA

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QUALIFICATIONS
1994  MB ChB	Bristol University
1997  MRCP	RCP London
2000  MPhil (Research)	Southampton University
2000  Stroke Assoc Fellow	Edinburgh University
2001  Glaxo Wellcome Fellow	Edinburgh University
2002  MD (Research)	Edinburgh University
2006  PG Diploma Clin Neurol	University College London
2006  CCT Internal / Geri Med	Wessex, UK
2009  FRCP	RCP London
2015  FHKCP	HK College of Physicians
2015  FHKAM (Medicine)	HK Academy of Medicine
2015  Dementia Scholarship	UCSF, San Francisco, USA
2016  Nutrition	Cornell University, USA
2018  FRSPH	Royal Society of Public Health
2019  Cannabinoid Medicine	Academy of Medical Cannabis
2019  FESO	European Stroke Organisation
2021  FAHA	American Heart Association

I am a senior consultant specialist with over 26 years of experience in hyperacute stroke, stroke rehabilitation and prevention, on a background of general internal medicine and gerontology specialist (residency) training in the UK. I gained professional qualifications from 5 Russel Group (UK) and Ivy League Universities (USA) including Bristol, Southampton, Edinburgh, University College London, Cornell and University of California San Francisco. 

I previously worked as a stroke consultant and then head of department in Bournemouth (2006-13), medical director for regional stroke network (2008-12) and honorary professor in medicine at Bournemouth University (2009-18). I then worked at the University of Hong Kong as a clinical associate professor in geriatric medicine & dementia (2013-2018) before returning to Imperial College London. 

I now work as a senior consultant at the Imperial Stroke Centre, Charing Cross Hospital, London, where I am the director of the Imperial Stroke Education Programme, clinical lead for SSNAP & Quality of Care, and the NIHR Clinical Research Network co-lead for stroke in NW London. I am a Fellow of American Heart Association and European Stroke Organization, and I work as a specialist stroke adviser to the UK Parliamentary & Health Service Ombudsman for complex stroke complaint cases. I am a PACES examiner for the Royal College of Physicians UK, and serve on the BIASP Clinical Standard Committee and two European Stroke Organization Committees.

As a clinical academic at Imperial College London, I am active in medical research, education, and professional training. I have published over 140 scientific articles, book chapters and research theses, and won several major awards. I am currently leading on a new UK-based Thrombectomy for Acute Stroke Research E-Registry (TASER UK) project. My h-index is 39 and i-10 index is 76 (Feb 2024).

I am a professional Member / Fellow of the American Heart Association (AHA), American Stroke Association (ASA), European Stroke Organization (ESO), British & Irish Association of Stroke Physicians (BIASP), British Geriatrics Society (BGS), British Society of Physical & Rehabilitation Medicine (BSPRM), Royal College of Physicians (RCP), Royal Society of Public Health (RSPH), World Stroke Organization (WSO), Hong Kong College of Physicians (HKCP), Hong Kong Academy of Medicine (HKAM).

My private practice is at the Cleveland Clinic London as a consultant in stroke, neurological rehabilitation and acute medicine. 

Outside of work, my passion is nutrition and physical fitness, and my charitable work is with Chelsea Football Club Foundation to improve the brain health of the public, preventing TIA, stroke and dementia.

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