Yannick Béjot

Prof. Dr. Yannick Béjot heads the Department of Neurology, the Stroke Unit, and the Memory Clinic of the University Hospital of Dijon, France. He teaches Neurology at the Medical School of Dijon and directs the Dijon Stroke Registry, a research team of the University of Burgundy, whose aim is to study the epidemiology of stroke and TIA in a population-based setting. The Dijon Stroke Registry is part of the research unit EA7460 "Pathophysiology and Epidemiology of Cardio-Cerebrovascular Diseases (PEC2)" of the University of Burgundy, France (http://pec2.u-bourgogne.fr/en/). His research is focused on the identification of risk factors and causes of stroke, the consequences of the disease on patients’ health in terms of functional outcomes, cognitive impairment and dementia, depressive symptoms and quality of life, and temporal trends in patients’ management, with the global objective of improving diagnostic procedures, primary and secondary prevention and the quality of education of healthcare professionals as well as stroke patients themselves. He has developed translational research on the interactions between the brain and the heart during ischemic processes using animal models of cerebral infarction, with the aim of identifying markers that could represent new therapeutic targets in humans. He has been an author of > 400 articles in peer-reviewed journals, and he is currently involved in several national and international research groups and societies including the European Stroke Organization, The French Neurovascular Society, the International Association of Neurology and Epidemiology, and the Scientific committee of the French Foundation for Stroke Research. He is member of the Editorial Board of several international journals.