Enrique C. Leira MD MS is the Director of the Division of Cerebrovascular Disease and Head of the Comprehensive Stroke Center. He is an experienced board-certified vascular neurologist, and a trained epidemiologist. Dr. Leira is a tenured Professor in Neurology with secondary appointments in Neurosurgery and Epidemiology. He is also a member of the Operator Performance laboratory in the College of Engineering. His research focus is acute stroke management and prevention, including evidence-based strategies to improve and accelerate stroke treatment in rural areas. He conducted a pivotal clinical trial of delivering an intervention during the helicopter evacuation of patients to a comprehensive stroke center. This led into novel translational animal studies studying the effect of helicopter transport on acute stroke and reperfusion, which lead to the discovery of low frequency vibration as a synergistic intervention to thrombolytic therapy. Dr. Leira research has been funded by the NINDS-NIH. He is a principal investigator he University of Iowa StrokeNet Regional Coordinating Center Infrastructure (https://www.nihstrokenet.org/). He is also a principal investigator for the SPAN Network for advancing neuroprotective therapies through multicenter translational animal studies (https://spannetwork.org/). Dr. Leira has been very active in leadership positions with the American Stroke Association. American Academy of Neurology, and American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology. He is currently an associate editor for the journal Stroke.