Professor Valery Feigin of Auckland University of Technology was presented with the MacDiarmid Medal by the Royal Society of New Zealand this month for his outstanding research in the field of stroke epidemiology. He says New Zealand's current stroke prevention strategy ignores the 90 percent of New Zealanders in the low - moderate risk category, yet 80 percent of all strokes strike this group.
Professor Feigin also created an award winning Stroke Risk app which measures an individuals risk of a stroke in the next five to ten years.
Professor Valery Feigin receiving his McDiarmid medal from Professor Juliet Gerrard at the 2015 Royal Society of New Zealand Research Honours dinner Photo: Royal Society
