Bruce Ovbiagele is a Nigerian-American vascular neurologist, biomedical researcher, health systems executive, academic leader, organization founder, and scientific journal editor.

[4][5] He is a member of the Board of Directors of the World Stroke Organization,[6] and Northern California Institute of Research and Education.

He served as a member of the Board of Directors of the American Academy of Neurology,[11] Ovbiagele was appointed Associate Dean at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) School of Medicine in 2018.

[12] Ovbiagele's work focuses on improving stroke outcomes for disparate populations around the world through epidemiological surveillance, pharmaceutical clinical trials, genomics, and implementation science.

[14][15] Ovbiagele led the national policy writing group that projected that annual costs of stroke in the United States would rise substantially in the future requiring a greater emphasis on implementing effective preventive, acute care, and rehabilitative services.

He has spearheaded neuroscience workforce development initiatives, including the Training in Research for Academic Neurologists to Sustain Careers and Enhance the Numbers of Diverse Scholars (TRANSCENDS),[20] Training Africans to Lead and Execute Neurological Trials and Studies (TALENTS),[21] ENgaging Leaders In Global and local HealTh Equity in Neurology (ENLIGHTEN),[22] and Editors-in-Training[23][24][25] programs.