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David Dansereau

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Co-Host Know Stroke Podcast

Mike can send in his as well but here's mine. Our podcast description and mission can be found as knowstrokepod.com

David"s Biosketch:

I am a stroke survivor and the founder of Know-Stroke.org - a community to support life after stroke. My story was featured in the NY Times and on Ch12 News in Providence. I am a licensed physical therapist, nutritionist, author and clinical PT consultant, and have a keen interest to explore the intersection of stroke rehabilitation and digital therapeutics to improve patient education and outcomes.

Special interests: Early intervention/kids stroke awareness:
see Bright Minds Kids-Know Stroke
https://www.know-stroke.org/brightminds

On the patient advocacy side, as as stroke survivor at age 39, I became a co-founding member and vice president of the patient led PFO Research Foundation. I am also currently the co-host of the Know Stroke Podcast.

As part of my stroke advocacy journey I serve at the national level as a stroke spokesperson for the American Heart / Stroke Association and am a PCORI Ambassador and a Stroke Patient Stakeholder in clinical research trials at Tuft’s Medical Center and Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston. I have also provided patient testimony before the FDA helping to shape future clinical trials to include the patient perspective and improve the patient voice in healthcare outcomes after stroke.

Professionally, I serve as an expert guest presenter for the Digital Medicine Society (DiMe). I have been a contributor to their common methodologies working group, have led the representation for the rehabilitation perspective and forum with BioHacking Village on telehealth during the pandemic as well as represented DiMe as content expert for telehealth rehabilitation during the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) BioHacking Telemedicine Course. In addition I recently presented at the IMPACCT mHealth in Clinical Trials 2020 Conference on Wearables in Physical Therapy and was a contributor to the Society to Improve Diagnosis in Medicine (SIDM) tele-diagnosis project with completed publication for the Patient Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI).
I am also a rehab clinical consultant to URI and guest lecturer in the PT Department.