Vladimir Hachinski

Vladimir Hachinski is a Canadian clinical neuroscientist and researcher based at the Schulich School of Medicine and Dentistry at Western University. He is also a Senior Scientist at London's Lawson Health Research Institute. His research pertains in the greatest part to stroke and dementia, and the interactions between them. He helped to establish the world's first successful stroke unit at Sunnybrook Hospital in Toronto, and, by extension, helped cement stroke units as the standard of care for stroke patients. He also helped discover that the insula mediates the cardiac complications of stroke, and elucidated its importance in the mechanism of sudden death following stroke.

Hachinski has held many prominent positions in the global neurology community, including editor-in-chief of the journal Stroke and president of the World Federation of Neurology. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada (FRSC)and the Canadian Academy of Health Sciences (FCAHS), a Member of the Orders of Canada and Ontario, and the recipient of several national and international awards and recognitions for his research and advocacy.

Hachinski was born in Zhytomyr, Ukraine, the eldest of three children. He moved with his family to Caripito, Venezuela as a child. The family moved to Port Perry, Ontario, Canada soon after. When he arrived in Canada, he knew only a little English, but he learned quickly, graduating from Port Perry High School a year later at the top of his class and with top marks in English.

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