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13 Years ahead NZ launches a National Service Improvement Programme for national access to stroke clot retrieval. The Foundation pledges a second five-year commitment to the Chair in Clinical Neurology. Alan is elected president of the Australia and New Zealand Association of Neurologists. The teambegins a project investigatingwhether cooling the brain using a cooling cap slows brain damagewhile patients are being transported for clot retrieval, led byAlan andClinical Research FellowDrWilliamDiprose. “There are still many unanswered questions. We want to keep riding the wave of research in this area, producing work that improves the lives of people living with neurological disease.” Professor AlanBarber The Foundation pledges five years’ support for the Chair in Clinical Neurology, an administrator, a research fellow and a clinical research fellow. 2020 2022 $2.5M 2024 YEARS AHEAD 2018 $2.1M “Our detailed database has been a treasure trove of information that our team has translated into more than 40 separate pieces of original research published in high impact scientific journals over the past 10 years. This has helped shape clinical practice around the world. New Zealand has been leading the way.” Professor Alan Barber