Dr. Noma Dlamini worked as a Staff Neurologist at the Evelina Children’s Hospital, Guy’s and St Thomas’ Hospital in London, UK prior to returning to SickKids. She is the Director of the Children’s Stroke Program. She is pioneering an integrated clinical and multi-modal neuroimaging approach for the prediction of risk and outcome in children with stroke and cerebrovascular disorders. She also provides international leadership in paediatric stroke through the International Paediatric Stroke Study and the International Paediatric Stroke Organization.

Dr. Dlamini is passionate about understanding why children have stroke, why some children do well after they have a stroke, and why some do not. She follows one of the largest populations of children with stroke in Canada and uses novel imaging of the brain to understand stroke risk and outcome in childhood. Current work includes research into why some children with stroke have challenges with higher language functions such as socialization and humour, why some children develop a disabling movement disorder called dystonia, how to predict stroke risk in children with abnormalities of the brain blood vessels and how sleep affects stroke risk and outcome.