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2023

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D-Index
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Citations
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World Ranking
3259
National Ranking
135

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2023 - Research.com Medicine in Canada Leader Award
  • 2018 - Canadian Medical Hall of Fame
  • 2018 - Izaak Walton Killam Memorial Prize, Canada Council
  • 2016 - Prince Mahidol Award
  • 2014 - Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada Academy of Science

Overview

Vladimir Hachinski is affiliated with the University of Western Ontario in Canada. Their primary research area lies within Medicine, with a focus on Psychiatry and Mental Health, Neurology, Epidemiology, Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis, and Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine.

Their main topics of work include:

  • Dementia and Cognitive Impairment Research
  • Health, Environment, Cognitive Aging
  • Acute Ischemic Stroke Management
  • Neurological Disease Mechanisms and Treatments
  • Cerebrovascular and Carotid Artery Diseases
  • Health disparities and outcomes
  • Health Systems, Economic Evaluations, Quality of Life

Frequent publication venues for their work have been:

  • Alzheimer's & Dementia
  • Neurology
  • The Lancet Neurology
  • Stroke
  • International Journal of Stroke

Recent papers involving Vladimir Hachinski include:

  • Pragmatic solutions to reduce the global burden of stroke: a World Stroke Organization-Lancet Neurology Commission, 2023, The Lancet Neurology
  • The state of stroke services across the globe: Report of World Stroke Organization-World Health Organization surveys, 2021, International Journal of Stroke
  • Global prevention of stroke and dementia: the WSO Declaration, 2020, The Lancet Neurology
  • Stroke and dementia, leading causes of neurological disability and death, potential for prevention, 2021, Alzheimer's & Dementia
  • Global, regional, and national trends of dementia incidence and risk factors, 1990-2019: A Global Burden of Disease study, 2022, Alzheimer's & Dementia

They frequently collaborate with coauthors such as:

  • Abolfazl Avan
  • Shawn N. Whitehead
  • Valery L. Feigin
  • Eric E. Smith
  • Aravind Ganesh

Award recognitions include:

  • Izaak Walton Killam Memorial Prize, Canada Council (2018)
  • Canadian Medical Hall of Fame (2018)
  • Prince Mahidol Award (2016)
  • Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada, Academy of Science (2014)

Best Publications

  • Beneficial effect of carotid endarterectomy in symptomatic patients with high-grade carotid stenosis

    Barnett Hjm;Taylor Dw;Haynes Rb

  • Neuroimaging standards for research into small vessel disease and its contribution to ageing and neurodegeneration

    Joanna M. Wardlaw;Eric E. Smith;Geert J Biessels;Charlotte Cordonnier

  • Global, regional, and national comparative risk assessment of 84 behavioural, environmental and occupational, and metabolic risks or clusters of risks for 195 countries and territories, 1990–2017 : a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2017

    Jeffrey D. Stanaway;Ashkan Afshin;Emmanuela Gakidou;Stephen S. Lim

  • Global, regional, and national burden of neurological disorders, 1990-2016: A systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2016

    Valery L Feigin;Amanuel Alemu Abajobir;Kalkidan Hassen Abate;Foad Abd-Allah

  • Benefit of carotid endarterectomy in patients with symptomatic moderate or severe stenosis. North American Symptomatic Carotid Endarterectomy Trial Collaborators.

    H J Barnett;D W Taylor;M Eliasziw;A J Fox

  • Cerebral blood flow in dementia.

    V. C. Hachinski;L. D. Iliff;E. Zilhka;G. H. Du Boulay

  • Global, regional, and national disability-adjusted life-years (DALYs) for 333 diseases and injuries and healthy life expectancy (HALE) for 195 countries and territories, 1990–2016: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2016

    Simon I Hay;Amanuel Alemu Abajobir;Kalkidan Hassen Abate;Cristiana Abbafati

  • Global, regional, and national comparative risk assessment of 84 behavioural, environmental and occupational, and metabolic risks or clusters of risks, 1990–2016: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2016

    Amanuel Alemu Abajobir;Kalkidan Hassen Abate;Cristiana Abbafati;Kaja M. Abbas

  • Global, regional, and national burden of Alzheimer's disease and other dementias, 1990-2016: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2016

    Emma Nichols;Cassandra E.I. Szoeke;Stein Emil Vollset;Nooshin Abbasi

  • National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke–Canadian Stroke Network Vascular Cognitive Impairment Harmonization Standards

    Vladimir Hachinski;Costantino Iadecola;Ron C. Petersen;Monique M. Breteler

  • Global, regional, and national disability-adjusted life-years (DALYs) for 333 diseases and injuries and healthy life expectancy (HALE) for 195 countries and territories, 1990-2016

    Simon I. Hay;Amanuel Alemu Abajobir;Kalkidan Hassen Abate;Cristiana Abbafati

  • Global, regional, and national burden of neurological disorders during 1990-2015

    Valery L. Feigin;Amanuel Alemu Abajobir;Kalkidan Hassen Abate;Foad Abd-Allah

  • Multi-infarct dementia. A cause of mental deterioration in the elderly.

    V.C. Hachinski;N.A. Lassen;J. Marshall

  • Cardiovascular effects of human insular cortex stimulation

    Stephen M. Oppenheimer;Adrian Gelb;John P. Girvin;Vladimir C. Hachinski

  • The North American Symptomatic Carotid Endarterectomy Trial Surgical Results in 1415 Patients

    G. G. Ferguson;M. Eliasziw;H. W. K. Barr;G. P. Clagett

  • Atrial Fibrillation in Patients with Cryptogenic Stroke

    David J. Gladstone;Melanie Spring;Paul Dorian;Val Panzov

  • THE CANADIAN AMERICAN TICLOPIDINE STUDY (CATS) IN THROMBOEMBOLIC STROKE

    Michael Gent;J. Donald Easton;VladimirC. Hachinski;Edouard Panak

  • Global, regional, and national age-sex-specific mortality and life expectancy, 1950-2017: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2017

    Daniel Dicker;Grant Nguyen;Degu Abate;Kalkidan Hassen Abate

  • Measuring performance on the Healthcare Access and Quality Index for 195 countries and territories and selected subnational locations: A systematic analysis from the Global Burden of Disease Study 2016

    Nancy Fullman;Jamal Yearwood;Solomon M Abay;Cristiana Abbafati

  • The clinical diagnosis of Alzheimer's disease

    John P. H. Wade;Thomas R. Mirsen;Vladimir C. Hachinski;Michael Fisman

Frequent Co-Authors

Allan J. Fox
Allan J. Fox University of Toronto
David G. Munoz
David G. Munoz University of Toronto
Michael Eliasziw
Michael Eliasziw University of Calgary
Bo Norrving
Bo Norrving Lund University
Gustavo Saposnik
Gustavo Saposnik University of Toronto
Graeme J. Hankey
Graeme J. Hankey University of Western Australia
David F. Cechetto
David F. Cechetto University of Western Ontario
Valery L. Feigin
Valery L. Feigin Auckland University of Technology
J. David Spence
J. David Spence University of Western Ontario
Perminder S. Sachdev
Perminder S. Sachdev University of New South Wales

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