Dr. Teal is the Sauder Family and Heart and Stroke Foundation of British Columbia Professor of Clinical Stroke Neurology, Division of Neurology, University of British Columbia. Dr. Teal is the Director of the Stroke Program at the British Columbia Center for Stroke and Cerebrovascular Diseases and is on active staff at the Vancouver Hospital and Health Sciences Centre and the University Hospital and is on the consulting staff at BC Children's Hospital for the assessment of pediatric stroke patients.

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Dr. Teal's primary clinical and research interests are stroke prevention and acute treatment of stroke. Dr. Teal has participated in over 100 clinical research trials testing new stroke therapies including participation in the early trials of intravenous and intra-arterial thrombolytic therapy for acute stroke. Dr. Teal has a longstanding interest in antithrombotic therapies for stroke prevention.