Bartosz Karaszewski
Bartosz Karaszewski is a professor of medicine, the National Consultant Neurologist for Poland, chairman of the Clinical Sciences Committee of the Polish Academy of Sciences, and the chairman of the Cerebrovascular Diseases Section of the Polish Neurological Society. The latter body is regularly publishing main and complex Polish recommendations for stroke management. Bartosz Karaszewski is heading the Department of Neurology at the Medical University of Gdańsk, and the Adult Neurology
Department of the University Clinical Centre hospital, one of the largest neurological, stroke and neurocritical car units in the country.
In the past, he served as the chief expert for stroke of the Ministry of Health in the Health Needs Map project. He initiated and leads the STROACT (thrombolysis in patients on apiksaban or rivaroxaban in combination with andexanet alfa) and WAKE-IN (DWI-FLAIR mismatch guided thrombectomy) trials. With colleagues, he introduced brain temperatures map in the acute ischemic stroke (Karaszewski at al. Ann Neurol 2007), and defined the earliest in-vivo compound marker in spreading cerebral ischemia (Karaszewski at al. Neurology 2010).
