Professor Vincent Thijs
MD, PhD

Location
Heidelberg Campus
245 Burgundy Street
Heidelberg Victoria 3084

Headshot_Vincent Thijs

Biography

Professor Vincent Thijs is a stroke neurologist and clinician researcher specialising in stroke with more than 15 years of experience in the field. In his career as a clinician, he has led stroke units in Belgium and is now the Head of Stroke at Austin Health. He is the co-head of the Stroke Theme at The Florey.

Vincent’s main research topics include acute stroke imaging, genetics of stroke, atrial fibrillation and cryptogenic stroke.

Career highlights

Other highlights

  • Has published in top tier journals NEJM, Lancet, Nature Medicine, Nature Genetics, and Lancet Neurology
  • He has more than 30 articles in the leading journal in the field of stroke.
  • He has been on the steering committee of 10 randomized clinical trials (MITI-IV, WAKEUP, SCAST, TASTE, AXIS2, REACT-AF, DIAGNOSE-AF, SOCRATES, RESPECT-ESUS, TEXAIS)
  • He was the national coordinator of more than 10 trials both in the field of acute stroke and secondary prevention of stroke

Research publications

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