Kenneth Butcher is an Associate Professor of Neurology at the University of Alberta. He completed his PhD concurrently with his MD at the University of Western Ontario. His thesis was based on the autonomic effects of stroke. Following his Neurology residency at the University of Alberta, Dr. Butcher travelled to Australia where he completed a post-doctoral fellowship in magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) and advanced computed tomography (CT) imaging of acute stroke. In 2006, he returned to Alberta and took up his current faculty position. His major clinical and research interests are in acute stroke care. He recently designed and led a multicentre, randomised, trial of blood pressure reduction in acute intracerebral haemorrhage patients.

His active research projects include MRI studies and CT perfusion studies, aimed at extending the time window for stroke thrombolysis. He is also assessing the utility of using novel oral anticoagulants acutely after minor stroke and transient ischemic attack. Dr. Butcher has over 100 peer-reviewed publications. He has Personnel Awards and Grantsin-Aid funding from the Alberta Heritage Innovates Health Solutions, Canadian Institutes of Health Research and the Heart and Stroke Foundation of Canada. Dr. Butcher holds a Canada Research Chair in Cerebrovascular Disease and the Heart and Stroke Foundation of Alberta, Northwest Territories (NWT) and Nunavut Professorship in Stroke Medicine.