Symposium

One-day Symposium

Brain Resilience and Aging
Knowledge Synthesis Symposium

We are excited to host the first 1-Day Symposium on May 15, 2024, in Montreal, Quebec. The Symposium will include Collaboratory Members and be open to 30 additional registrants who are either faculty, clinicians, trainees, knowledge users, policy makers, and persons with lived experience. The Symposium will consist of a series of 15-minute talks organized around Three Themes. Each Theme will have 5-6 presenters. There will be a 15 min Q&A period after each session. Please see below for the Meeting Schedule.

Symposium Presentations

The Symposium was held on May 15, 2024.

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Meeting Schedule

Time Event
7:15am Breakfast
8:20am Welcome Remarks
Dr. Jane Rylett, Scientific Director, CIHR Institute of Aging
Dr. Natasha Rajah, Nominated Principal Applicant, Brain Resilience & Diversity Collaboratory
Morning Session 1 (Chair: Roger Dixon)
8:30am Race, Ethnicity, Diversity and SSDH in Cognitive and Brain Aging and Dementia, in which the following team members will present: Campbell (Brock), Christophe (McGill), Deska (Toronto Metropolitan University, TMU), Duarte (U.T. Austin), Vemuri (Mayo Clinic), and Stern (Columbia)
10:00am Morning Session 1 – Question and Answer (Moderator: CCNA KM Specialist, Dr. Itzhak)
10:15am Health Break. Refreshments will be served.
Morning Session 2 (Chair: Yaakov Stern)
10:45am The Role of Sex, Gender and Social and Structural Determinants of Health (SSDH) in Cognitive and Brain Aging and Dementia, in which the following team members will present: Buckley (Harvard), Einstein (U. Toronto), Galea (U. Toronto), Juster (U. de Montreal), Rajah (TMU & McGill), and Sharp (McGill).
12:15pm Morning Session 2 – Question and Answer (Moderator: CCNA KM Specialist, Dr. Itzhak)
12:30pm Lunch will be served.
Afternoon Session 1 (Chair: Gillian Einstein)
14:00pm Methodological Challenges in Research on Resilience and Diversity in Brain and Cognitive Aging, in which the following team members will present: Badhwar (U de Montreal), Dixon (U. Alberta), Geddes (McGill), Misic (McGill), Iturria-Medina (McGill), and Rugg (U.T. Dallas)
15:30pm Afternoon Session 1 - Question and Answer (Moderator: CCNA KM Specialist, Dr. Itzhak)
15:45pm Health Break. Refreshments will be served.
Afternoon Session 2
16:00pm Guided Reflection & Opportunity to provide feedback.
17:00pm Closing Remarks – Dr. Howard Chertkow, Scientific Director, Canadian Consortium on Neurodegeneration in Aging (CCNA)