Professor, Department of Medicine, Stroke Program, Division of Neurology, University of Alberta

Dr. Ashfaq Shuaib received his undergraduate medical education at Khyber Medical College in Pakistan, obtaining his MBBS degree in 1980. Thereafter, he did post-graduate training in Internal Medicine and Neurology at the University of Calgary between 1983 and 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.

In addition, he held the position of program director in the Division of Neurology between 1990 and 1995, supervised numerous research fellows and graduate students and was the Director of Saskatchewan Stroke Research Centre and Director of the WHO Centre.

Between 2014 and 2018 he was involved in establishment of the Qatar Neuroscience Institute. He joined the University of Alberta as Professor of Medicine and Director of the Division of Neurology effective September 1, 1997. He was the founding director of the Stroke Program, Stroke Fellowship and the Stroke Clinic at the University of Alberta. In July 2007 he stepped down as Divisional Director and remains Director of the Stroke Program.

His major interest is in the understanding of the basic mechanisms of cerebral ischemia and clinical trials in cerebrovascular diseases. He has published over 580 articles in peer-reviewed journals, has an h-index off 89 and i-index of 310. His research is funded by the CIHR, Heart and Stroke Foundation of Alberta, NIH, AHFMR, Alberta Innovates, Qatar Foundation and the industry. He is on the editorial board of the Stroke, Neurohospitalist, J of Neuroscience (Pakistan), Post-Graduate Journal (Pakistan), Heart Org, and Associate Editor of Frontiers in Neuroscience and Faculty F-1000.