Head and shoulders image of Dr. Ashfaq Shuaib, Neurology, Department of Medicine, Royal University Hospital.

Bio/Historical Note: Dr. Ashfaq Shuaib received his undergraduate medical education at Khyber Medical College in Pakistan, obtaining his MBBS degree in 1980. He did post-graduate training in Internal Medicine and Neurology at the University of Calgary between 1983-1988, followed by specialized training in cerebrovascular research at the University of Western Ontario and Duke University Medical School in Durham, North Carolina. He returned to Canada as an assistant professor in Medicine and Neurology at the University of Saskatchewan in 1989 and rose rapidly through the academic ranks to be appointed full professor in July 1995. Shuaib held the position of Residency Program Director in the Division of Neurology between 1990 and 1995, supervised numerous research fellows and graduate students and was director of the Saskatchewan Stroke Research Centre and director of the WHO Centre. Dr. Shuaib joined the University of Alberta as professor of medicine and director of the Division of Neurology in 1997. He is director of the University of Alberta Stroke Program which, in 2016, launched the first stroke ambulance in Alberta. He chairs the National Stroke Program and the National Residents' Review Course and is on the board of the Canadian Stroke Consortium (2023).