Andrew Bivard

University of Melbourne

Dr Bivard received his PhD in July 2013 from the University of Newcastle, NSW and completed a two year post-doctoral fellowship at the Melbourne Brain Centre, University of Melbourne (January 2012- February 2014). In 2013, Dr Bivard was awarded the European Stroke Conference Young Investigator of the Year, and the Peter Bladin award at the 2014 Stroke Society of Australasia. In 2015 Dr Bivard took up an NHMRC early career fellowship at HMRI. The majority of Dr Bivard's work in acute ischemic stroke imaging has focused on patient selection for reperfusion therapies, to maximise benefits and limit potential harm using contrast based imaging techniques.