Presenter: Dr. Joanna Schaafsma and Dr. Emanuele Orru

Topic: Decision-making on Unruptured Intracranial Aneurysms – Art or Science?

Biography:

Joanna Danielle Schaafsma completed her medical training at Groningen University (the Netherlands). This was followed by a Neurovascular internship in Paris (France), a Neurology residency in combination with a PhD program on brain aneurysms at Utrecht University (the Netherlands), and a stroke fellowship at the University of Toronto. She is a vascular neurologist at the University Health Network and an Assistant Professor of Medicine at the University of Toronto. Research Interests are cerebrovascular diseases, imaging-based diagnostic research, and medical decision-making.

Emanuele Orru’ was born and raised in Venice, Italy, where he received his primary education. He graduated with the highest grade from the University of Padua Medical School in 2008, and he subsequently completed a 5-year Residency in Diagnostic Radiology at the same Institution in 2014. Immediately after completion of his residency, he joined the Department of Radiology of the Johns Hopkins Hospital as a clinical fellow with a 4-year diagnostic and interventional neuroradiology track. He's completing his training here at the Toronto Western Hospital. Dr. Orru' is a diplomate of the American Board of Radiology and has authored multiple book chapters and papers on interventional and diagnostic neuroradiology topics.