Vida Demarin is a Full member of the Croatian Academy of Sciences and Arts and is Head of its Department of Medical Sciences. She specializes in neuropsychiatry and graduated from the School of Medicine, University of Zagreb, Croatia. From 1994 to 2012, she was Head of the Department of Neurology at University Hospital Centre “Sestre Milosrdnice” in Zagreb. She has been director of the International Institute for Brain Health since 2015. She authored about 1000 papers in national and international journals, several chapters in books and handbooks, and organized and participated in numerous symposia, conferences, and congresses. She is founder and one of the directors of Summer Stroke School, “Healthy Lifestyle and Prevention of Stroke and Other Brain Impairments”, within the academic program of Interuniversity Centre in Dubrovnik, and president of traditional Mind & Brain INPC in Pula. She is a member of numerous national and international professional societies and serves on various scientific Advisory, Editorial, and Review Boards. Due to her scientific life achievements, she is within 2% of the world's scientists with the greatest influence on the profession. Through her professional and scientific work, she has significantly influenced the development of neurology and neuroscience in Croatia and the world, and has established fruitful cooperation with the world's most prestigious institutions, contributing to the WFN motto "There is no health, without brain health!"