Home > Stroke > Advances in Stroke Treatment Get the Flash Player to see this player. Rate: (Click the stars to rate) Published on Nov 12, 2008 by BStern, Views: 5648 Advances in Stroke Treatment: Dr. Barney Stern, the Director of the Clinical Stroke Program at the Univ. of Maryland, discusses advances in stroke treatment. He discusses the use of the "clot busting" medication TPA, interventional treatment of stroke, as well as stroke imaging and rehabilitation of stroke.