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. 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 to identify markers that could represent new therapeutic targets in humans. He has been the author of > 380 articles in peer-reviewed journals, and he is currently involved in several national and international research groups and societies, including the European Stroke Organisation and The French Neurovascular Society.