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Contributors
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Stig Broeckx
During the third stage of the 2016 Tour of Belgium, Broeckx was in a crash caused by two motorbikes that ran into the peloton when it was descending at speed. He was reported to suffer severe injuries and was placed in an induced coma at the hospital in Gent. In June 2016, Lotto Soudal team issued a medical update explaining that Stig Broeckx was in a vegetative state with severe brain damage, with attempts to bring him out of his coma so far unsuccessful. A further update in September 2016 stated that Broeckx was being cared for in a rehabilitation centre in Overpelt, and was considered to be in a minimally conscious state, with no hope of recovery. His family insisted that Broeckx be sent to a pioneering coma centre in Liège. in December 2016 team doctor Servaes Bingé confirmed Broeckx was out of a coma.By 2019 Broeckx had recovered to a great extent, and was able to walk with a stick, although he had no memory of the five years leading up to the accident, and found out who he had been from the Internet. He cycles for recreation.
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Vanessa Charland
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J. Claude Hemphill III, MD, MAS, FNCS
Dr. Claude Hemphill is Professor of Neurology and Neurological Surgery at the University of California, San Francisco and Chief of Neurology and Director of Neurocritical Care at Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital. His research focuses on advanced neuromonitoring, informatics, and management of intracerebral hemorrhage. He is a founding director and Past-President of the Neurocritical Care Society and is a member of the editorial board of Neurocritical Care. His work has been previously funded by the National Institutes of Health through a K23 Career Development Award to study intracerebral hemorrhage and as PI of the San Francisco hub of the Neurological Emergencies Treatment Trials Network to conduct clinical trials for various neuroemergencies such as traumatic brain injury, status epilepticus, and stroke. He is the current co-chair of the Neurocritical Care Research Network and of the Curing Coma Campaign of the Neurocritical Care Society. He also served as chair of the writing groups for the 2015 American Heart Association/American Stroke Association Guidelines for the Management of Spontaneous Intracerebral Hemorrhage and the 2018 Clinical Performance Measures for Adults Hospitalized with Intracerebral Hemorrhage.