Dr. Claude Hemphill is Professor of Neurology and Neurological Surgery at the University of California, San Francisco and Chief of Neurology and Director of Neurocritical Care at Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital. His research focuses on advanced neuromonitoring and management of intracerebral hemorrhage. He is a founding director and Past-President of the Neurocritical Care Society and is a member of the editorial board of Neurocritical Care. His work has been funded by the National Institutes of Health to study intracerebral hemorrhage and conduct clinical trials for various neuroemergencies such as traumatic brain injury, status epilepticus, and stroke. He also served as chair of the writing group for the 2015 American Heart Association/American Stroke Association Guidelines for the Management of Spontaneous Intracerebral Hemorrhage.