Dr P N Sylaja, MD (Medicine), DM (Neurology), FRCP Edin is the Professor of Neurology and Head of the Comprehensive Stroke Care Program at Sree Chitra Tirunal Institute for Medical Sciences and Technology, Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala ,India . She has been working in stroke for the past 23 years. She is the past President of the Indian Stroke Association, Honorary Professor of the University of Lanchashire , UK , fellow of the European Stroke Organization and fellow of the Indian Academy of Neurology . She is in the board of directors of the World Stroke Organization and the member of the campaign committee of the WSO. She is the member of the Task Force Group of the Non-communicable disease division of the Indian Council of Medical Research. She is technical consultant for the stroke care for the Government of Kerala. She has been working with the government in starting primary stroke units in the district hospitals in her state and actively involved in training nurses and community health workers in stroke care. She is the Global cochair for South Asia for Mission thrombectomy 2020 , which is a global campaign for increasing stroke thrombectomy access globally.She received the National academic award of Indian Medical Association 2024 on the Doctors day. She is a member of the guideline committee of the World Stroke Organization. She is the editor in chief of the Annals of Indian Academy of Neurology and in the editorial board of Cerebrovascular diseases journal and Journal of Stroke medicine. She is the PI of many stroke trials and received funding from DBT-NIH,ICMR and NIHR. She has 250 publications to her credit with citations of 30722and an h-index of 47 and i10-index -123.