Q&A: What will it take to make every ambulance ‘stroke-capable’?

Portable brain imaging devices key to the revolution, say the project leads
Lydia Hales
stroke project leads
Professor Stephen Davis, third from left, and Professor Geoffrey Donnan, right. Pictured with Professor Shitij Kapur of the University of Melbourne, Stroke Foundation CEO Sharon McGowan, and Minister for Health Greg Hunt.

A million-dollar Federal Government grant for an ambitious project to deploy portable brain imaging devices could revolutionise stroke treatment in Australia.

Geoffrey Donnan, professor of neurology at the University of Melbourne, and Professor Stephen Davis, director of the Melbourne Brain Centre at the Royal Melbourne Hospital, are leading the project.