**About the Editors**

#### **Hyo Suk Nam**

Hyo Suk Nam is currently employed at the Department of Neurology at Yonsei University College of Medicine in Seoul, South Korea. He completed a fellowship in clinical and research neurology at the same institution and earned a Ph.D. in neurology from Yonsei in 2010. His areas of research include clinical stroke, acute patient management, care pathway improvement, mobile health, and basic stroke research. He has published over 50 papers as a corresponding or first author and over 160 papers as a co-author in peer-reviewed journals. He conducted the SECRET (SElection CRiteria in Endovascular thrombectomy and Thrombolytic therapy) study, which was a nationwide, multicenter study that aimed to examine the impact of comorbidities in thrombolysis and thrombectomy. This study has been extensively analyzed, and many articles on the SECRET registry have been published in peer-reviewed journals. Additionally, he is a primary investigator for a randomized controlled trial entitled "Outcome in Patients Treated with Intraarterial thrombectomy - optiMAL Blood Pressure control (OPTIMAL-BP) trial." The trial aims to determine the effectiveness of intensive blood pressure lowering compared to conventional treatment after endovascular treatment.

#### **Byung Moon Kim**

Byung Moon Kim is a Professor of Interventional Neuroradiology at the Department of Radiology, Severance Stroke Center, Severance Hospital, Yonsei University College of Medicine, Seoul, Republic of Korea. His research interests include the endovascular treatment of acute stroke, cerebral atherosclerotic stenosis, cerebral aneurysms, CNS shunt disease, and vascular malformations. With more than 25 years of experience in the fields of interventional neuroradiology, he has published around 100 papers as the first/corresponding author in peer-reviewed journals and has presented more than 50 proceedings at international conferences. In his scientific and professional career, he has been the president of the Korean Society of Interventional Neuroradiology (2018–2019), the Chairman of Organizing Committee of Asian-Australasian Federation of Interventional and Therapeutic Neuroradiology (AAFITN) 3030, and the Vice President of Korean Interventional Medical Society (2022–2023).
