Valery Feigin

Professor Valery Feigin is Professor of Neurology and Epidemiology and the Director of the National Institute for Stroke and Applied Neurosciences, Auckland University of Technology, New Zealand. He graduated in medicine from the Novosibirsk Medical University, Russia, and undertook advanced training in neurology and clinical epidemiology in Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN, USA and Erasmus University, Rotterdam, The Netherlands.

He is also Affiliate Professor of the University of Washington, USA, Honorary Professor of the Novosibirsk State Medical University, Russia, a Visiting Professor of the Capital Medical University of China, a Fellow of the Royal Society of New Zealand, American Academy of Neurology, and Russian Academy of Sciences.

Professor Feigin’s prime research interest is in the epidemiology, prevention and management of stroke, dementia and traumatic brain injury. By August 2021, he has published over 430 journal articles totalling >200,000 citations. According to Web of Science, he is one of the 1% most cited scientists worldwide. As of July 2021, Web of Science credits him with >89,000 citations and an h-index of 91). Just from the last year (2020) to 2021 his citation rate is one every 15 minutes, and rising.