Tony Rudd is Professor of Stroke Medicine at Kings College London, Consultant stroke physician at Guy’s and St Thomas’ Hospital and the National Clinical Director for Stroke for NHS England and NHS Improvement.

He has run the stroke programme producing national stroke guidelines and the national stroke audit since 1995.

His research interests are stroke rehabilitation, organisation of care and quality improvement with over 300 peer reviewed publications.

He was made a CBE in the Queen’s Birthday Honours in 2013.