Thomas Tourdias is a neuroradiologist. He completed his medical (MD) and scientific education (PhD in Neurosciences) at the University of Bordeaux and a post-doctoral fellowship in 2012 and 2013 at Stanford University (CA, USA) within the “Radiological Science Laboratory”. He is the head of the Diagnostic and Therapeutic Neuroimaging Department at Bordeaux University Hospital.
His training and expertise span from fundamental neurosciences to clinical neuroimaging and MRI physics, enabling him to conduct highly translational research, a key feature of the VBHI program. Notably, he identified the detrimental role of iron overload in brain regions disconnected by a stroke through imaging approaches, and he is currently leading a national multicenter therapeutic trial of neuroprotection using iron chelators. He has also developed several predictive models using imaging methods to anticipate the clinical evolution of stroke patients, including the impact of small vessel disease.
Within the VBHI institute, he will contribute to the collection and analysis of imaging data in patients to quantify small vessel lesion load. He will also be involved in imaging exploration of animal models. He is a member of the Institute’s Board of Directors.
Beyond the brain images that fascinate him, he has a special fondness for the ocean near Bordeaux, especially when there are good surfing waves to unwind.
