Miguel Perez-Pinzon, Ph.D., FAHA, chair, International Stroke Conference 2020 Program Committee, is professor of neurology/neuroscience, director, Cerebral Vascular Disease Research Center, director, Peritz Scheinberg Cerebral Vascular Laboratory, Vice-chair for neurology basic science at the Miller School of Medicine, department of neurology at the University of Miami, Miami, FL.

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"We also have the special memorial session. It's called the Paulette Durango Memorial Session. This session is dedicated to, a memorial to Dr. Paulette Durango, who was a vascular surgeon from Italy, who dedicated her life to studying sex differences. And in this session, we're going to include talks that address the incorporation of sex as a biological variable into some of these studies. That's for clinical, pre-clinical studies on how to optimize recognition of stroke in women in the American setting. Understanding the act of, of sex on imagining findings. And so this is a new session, and I think it will be really exciting."