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Professor Ana Catarina Fonseca

Centro Hospitalar Universitário Lisboa Norte, Lisbon (Portugal)

Ana Catarina Fonseca is a neurologist and has a PhD in Medicine, from the Faculty of Medicine, University of Lisbon (2014). In 2014, she completed a Masters in Public Health from Harvard University (USA), having previously completed two masters: in Stroke Medicine at the University Danube Krems (Austria) and in Neurosciences at the University of Lisbon. She is a researcher at the Instituto de Medicina Molecular where she manages the stroke biobank collection, teaches Pharmacology and Neurology at the Faculty of Medicine - University of Lisbon and works in the stroke unit of Hospital de Santa Maria in Lisbon. She was vice-president of the Portuguese Neurological Society and is currently member of the Stroke Unit certification committee of the European Stroke Organization. Her main research interests are cryptogenic stroke, heart-brain interactions and precision medicine. https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6913-5526 https://twitter.com/CatarinaACF

Embolic stroke of undetermined source - How hard to look for atrial fibrillation?

Event: EuroPrevent 2019

Topic: Atrial Fibrillation (AF)

Session: Masterclass: stroke prevention I

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