Moderators
Executive Director of Research, Innovation, and Translation at the Baycrest Academy for Research and Education and the Director of Research, Innovation | Translation at the Centre for Aging + Brain Health Innovation (CABHI)
Rosanne Aleong is the Executive Director of Research, Innovation, and Translation at the Baycrest Academy for Research and Education and the Director of Research, Innovation, and Translation at the Centre for Aging + Brain Health Innovation (CABHI). She received her MSc and PhD in...
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Speakers
Chief Science Officer - Alzheimer Society of Canada | Adjunct Professor - McGill
Dr. Saskia Sivananthan is Chief Science and Knowledge Translation Officer at the
Alzheimer Society of Canada, overseeing the Alzheimer Society Research Program, a dementia research priority setting leader. She is a neuroscientist and health data scientist who has focused her work on dementia care. In 2020, she was appointed by the Federal Minister of Health to the ministerial advisory...
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Chief Executive Officer - RetiSpec, MSc
Eliav Shaked, MSc, is a co-founder and CEO of RetiSpec, a Toronto-based medical imaging startup in the Alzheimer’s disease diagnostics field. Eliav serves as Director and Chair of the Board at RetiSpec. Eliav is a biomedical engineer with 8+ years of working in Neurotech start-ups...
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Scientific Director - CIHR Institute of Aging | Distinguished University Professor - Department of Physiology and Pharmacology, University of Western Ontario | Scientist - Robarts Research Institute, University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario
Dr. Jane Rylett is a Distinguished University Professor at University of Western Ontario and Scientist in Translational Neuroscience Group at Robarts Research Institute. She was appointed as Scientific Director of the CIHR Institute of Aging in August 2019 and is a Fellow of the Canadian...
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Advocate living with Alzheimer's & Recipient of honorary, Doctor of Laws degree from the University of British Columbia
Diagnosed with dementia in 2007, Jim has been acknowledged as perhaps the single-most influential person in Canada for reducing the stigma of Alzheimer’s & other forms of dementia, & for promoting that persons with dementia can make an active & meaningful contribution. For this...
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Professor of Psychology and Psychiatry, University of Toronto
Nicole D. Anderson is the Interim Executive Director of Scientific and Academic Affairs, the Director of the Ben & Hilda Katz Interprofessional Research Program in Geriatric and Dementia Care, the Associate Scientific Director of the Kimel Family Centre for Brain Health and Wellness...
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