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| Hilary Swank Keynote Speaker |
Christine Bentley Master of Ceremonies |
Dr. Marla Shapiro Author, Physician and CTV Health and Medical Contributor |
Senator Linda Frum What We Learned Today |
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Christine Bentley Christine Bentley has been a part of the CTV News family since 1977. Starting as a general assignment reporter, Christine was soon assigned to City Hall and later Queen’s Park, covering numerous municipal and provincial elections. Her next career move took her behind the anchor desk, first on weekends, and later as the popular co-host of CTV’s Night Beat News at 11:30 for over a decade.Today, viewers can see Christine co-anchoring CTV News at Noon with Ken Shaw, and later, when she hosts Canada’s most-watched local newscast, CTV News at Six with Ken Shaw and Christine Bentley.An active member of the community, Christine has served on the Board of Governors for Centenary Health Centre for more than 10 years, and has been active with numerous charities, including Toy Mountain, Canadian Cancer Society, MS Society and Habitat for Humanity. Currently, Christine sits on the board of the Children’s Wish Foundation. |
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Dr. Tiffany Chow Dr. Tiffany Chow is a Senior Scientist with the Rotman Research Institute and the first scientist supported by the Women of Baycrest. She is also an Assistant Professor of Neurology and Geriatric Psychiatry at the University of Toronto.Dr. Chow’s clinical research is dedicated to finding meaningful interventions for patients with behavioural disturbances due to dementia. These interventions range from pharmacologic ways of compensating for neurotransmitter imbalances caused by the dementia to non-pharmacologic means, such as specialized day programs or dance. |
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Dr. David Conn Dr. David Conn is currently the Vice-President of Medical Services and Academic Education and Psychiatrist-in-Chief at Baycrest Centre for Geriatric Care and Associate Professor in the Department of Psychiatry, University of Toronto. He is also the Co-Chair of the Canadian Coalition for Seniors’ Mental Health and Chair of the Coalition’s National Guidelines Project.Dr. Conn is the co-editor of three textbooks including “Practical Psychiatry in the Long-Term Care Home: A Handbook for Staff”. He received the 2005 Canadian Academy of Geriatric Psychiatry Award for Outstanding Contributions to Geriatric Psychiatry in Canada and a Distinguished Service Award from the International Psychogeriatric Association in 2009. |
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Dr. Fergus Craik Dr. Fergus Craik, a senior scientist with the Rotman Research Institute, has contributed immensely to the understanding of how human memory works – how it encodes new memories and retrieves stored information – and the effects of aging on those processes. Dr. Craik has published extensively in scientific journals, written book chapters, and co-edited nine books, including The Oxford Handbook of Memory (with co-editor and Gairdner Award recipient Endel Tulving). It is considered by many leading scholars and scientists in the neuroscience field to be one of most important books on memory ever published.He is internationally recognized for his experimental study of human memory processes and was elected a Fellow of The Royal Society. |
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Dr. Gillian Einstein Gillian Einstein is an Associate Professor in the Department of Psychology and The Dalla Lana School of Public Health at the University of Toronto as well as founder and Director of the Collaborative Graduate Program in Women’s Health also at the University of Toronto. She obtained her AB at Harvard University and her PhD in Anatomy at the University of Pennsylvania. She has taught at Duke, Harvard, and currently, the University of Toronto. She has been a special advisor on FGM for the WHO, a visiting Professor of Women, Gender and Sexuality Studies at Harvard University, and is appointed to the Institute Advisory Board of the Institute of Gender and Health, CIHR.Her cognitive neuroscience and women’s health research program includes studies addressing the neurobiological effects of cultural practices such as female genital circumcision/mutilation/cutting (FGC), the effects on memory of prophylactic oophorectomy in women carrying the BRCA1/2 gene mutations, and sex differences in sensitivity to touch. She has published on vision, Alzheimer’s disease, sex differences, FGM/C, and women’s health. She has edited and annotated a book of classical papers in the field of Hormones and Behavior called, Sex and the Brain (2007, MIT Press). |
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Dr. Norman Farb Dr. Norman Farb is the Women of Baycrest Postdoctoral Fellow, Rotman Research Institute. Baycrest currently working with Dr. Tiffany Chow in the Frontotemporal Dementia Workshop. His research focuses on developing a mindfulness-based stress reduction program for family caregivers of patients with dementia.Developing techniques for strengthening mindful awareness may be an important step in promoting stress-resilience in familial caregivers and in aiding the elderly in accepting the changes and challenges that are associated with aging. |
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Senator Linda Frum Linda Frum (born January 13, 1963) is a Canadian author and journalist. She is the daughter of Murray and Barbara Frum, and the sister of David Frum. In August, 2009, she was appointed by Prime Minister Stephen Harper to the Canadian Senate.Born in Toronto, Ontario, she attended Havergal College and received a Bachelor of Arts degree from McGill University in 1984.She has authored two books, Linda Frum’s Guide to Canadian Universities (1987, with an updated edition published in 1990) and Barbara Frum: A Daughter’s Memoir (1996). Both books were Canadian bestsellers (sales of 500 copies or more).[citation needed] She is a former contributing editor to Maclean’s, and was a columnist with the National Post from 1998 to 2002 and again from 2006 to 2007. In 1996 she won a Gemini Award for Best Social-Political Documentary Program for the film Ms. Conceptions.She has served as a volunteer for many community organizations. She is vice-chair of the board of governors of Upper Canada College and a member of the board of the Bishop Strachan School in Toronto and the Canadian Club of Toronto. She is honorary patron of the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society of Canada. In 2006, she was chair of the Women’s Division of the United Jewish Appeal. She is a past board member of the Canada Israel Committee, the Art Gallery of Ontario Foundation, Soulpepper Theatre, and the Ontario Arts Council. She lives in Toronto with her husband Howard Sokolowski, a real estate developer and former co-owner of the Toronto Argonauts of the Canadian Football League, and her three children. In 2006, she and her husband received the Human Relations Award from the Canadian Council of Christians and Jews. In June 2010, she received an Honorary Degree from Yeshiva University.On August 27, 2009 she was appointed to the Senate by Prime Minister Stephen Harper. She has a Conservative affliliation and represents Ontario. She serves on the Energy and Environment Committee and the Transport and Communications Committee. |
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Dr. Carol Greenwood Baycrest senior scientist and professor in the department of nutritional sciences at University of Toronto. The focus of her research is the relationship between diet and brain function.Dr. Greenwood’s research program carries two central themes – the first being diet as a risk factor for cognitive decline with aging and the second being the role of appetite disturbances as a contributor to malnutrition risk in institutionalized seniors with cognitive impairment, including Alzheimer Disease (AD).The goal of her research relating to malnutrition risk is to understand how and why dietary intervention responses change with AD progression and to develop strategies, dependent upon stage of disease, which optimize nutrient intake in this vulnerable population. |
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Dr. Nasreen Khatri Dr. Nasreen Khatri is a clinical psychologist and Clinician Leader of the Mood and Related Disorders Clinic/ Cognitive Behaviour Therapy in the Brain Health Centre at Baycrest. Dr. Khatri’s clinical research is committed to refining and tailoring nonpharmacological treatments (such as CBT) for mid-to-late life depression, as well as studying the cognitive mechanisms underlying depression. |
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Dr. Jean Marmoreo Jean Marmoreo is a Toronto-based Family Physician who has been caring for women and their families for more than 30 years. She continues to deliver the babies of her patients and now their babies as well.In addition, she specializes in treating mid-life women and managing the issues that surround the transition through menopause. These include the squeeze we call The Sandwich Generation, the pitfalls of raising teens, the disruption of family splits and reconfigurations, love lost and found again, the crucible and the lessons of illness.Jean lectures widely on these topics to lay audiences and has provided the necessary medical expertise in evaluating the use of hormone replacement during and after the change for women in a variety of venues.Her experience in the ‘trenches’ was the basis of her columns in the National Post and the Globe and Mail and led to her writing the book, The New Middle Ages, in 2002.That same year she and her husband founded JeansMarines, a running group aimed at taking women off the couch and to the starting line of the Marines Corps Marathon in Washington in nine months – the time it takes to have a baby. Hundreds of women have done the JeansMarines program and have changed their lives because of it.An avid hiker and kayaker, Jean Marmoreo has climbed Mt. Kilimanjaro and hiked to the base camp at Mt. Everest. |
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Dr. Randy McIntosh Dr. Randy McIntosh, 45, is currently leading a multi-million dollar project which has the RRI partnered with an international team of scientists to construct the world’s first virtual functioning brain. The massive project – akin to decoding the human genome – has the potential to revolutionize how clinicians assess and treat various brain disorders, including cognitive impairment caused by stroke and Alzheimer’s disease.A world-renowned expert in the use of neuro-imaging methods (fMRI, PET, EEG and MEG) and computational modeling to understand how brain networks change with aging and how the brain recovers from damage or disease, The Globe and Mail has ranked Dr. McIntosh among the top scientists in Canada’s largest city poised to break new ground in their field of research. |
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Dr. Kelly Murphy Dr. Kelly Murphy is a Clinical Neuropsychologist with Neuropsychology and Cognitive Health at Baycrest, an assistant professor of Psychology at the University of Toronto, and an adjunct faculty member in graduate studies (Psychology) at both York University and Queen’s University. Dr. Murphy runs a clinical service specializing in the early detection and treatment of memory decline in older adults with mild cognitive impairment (MCI) who are at risk of developing future dementia. The service includes Memory Intervention for MCI, which is a program providing education about lifestyle factors for optimizing memory function, training on practical memory strategies, and psychosocial support for clients with MCI and their family members. Her research focuses primarily on cognitive aging, memory intervention, and mild cognitive impairment (MCI). |
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Dr. Tomáš Paus Dr. Tomáš Paus is a Czech-born scientist and brain mapping expert who is conducting large population-based studies in Canada and the U.K. examining brain maturation and cognitive development from childhood to adolescence to understand how environmental and genetic factors shape the human brain and cognition. He is the Joint Baycrest and University of Toronto Anne and Max Tanenbaum Chair, and co-director of the novel Toronto Trans-generational Brain and Body Centre (TTBBC) – the first centre of its kind in North America.As co-director of the TTBBC, Dr. Paus and his research team will recruit multigenerational family members from various close-knit communities across Toronto to participate in studies that take a comprehensive and holistic approach to brain and body health – from a basic understanding of the relation of brain and body physiology to mental function, to the identification of key environmental and genetic risk factors that compromise brain function.”Working with multi-generational families should give us an edge for making predictions about the way in which an individual’s genes and environment shape his or her brain and body over time. Our goal is to identify those individuals at risk and design interventions to increase brain and heart health of the young generation.” |
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Dr. Zdenka Pausova Dr. Zdenka Pausova is Scientist at the world-renowned Hospital for Sick Children (Sick Kids). Trained in internal medicine and molecular and statistical genetics, her research interest is metabolic and cardiovascular health in adolescence – specifically how genes and environment interact to generate common disorders such as obesity, diabetes and hypertension in this previously unaffected population. She’ll co-direct the TTBBC. |
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Lynn Posluns Lynn Posluns is Founder & Chair of Women of Baycrest, the visionary and dynamic campaign to fund research and innovation in women’s brain health. Lynn is also Managing Director of Cedarpoint Investment Inc., a private equity and alternative investments management firm based in Toronto, Ontario. Before joining Cedarpoint in 1997, Lynn was President and C.E.O. of Fairweather, Canada’s largest women’s wear chain. Over the years, Lynn has held a number of senior management positions within the retail and fashion industries.Other community involvements include Director, Baycrest Centre Foundation, Trusteeship Council, Koffler Centre of the Arts and Founding Member, Invest in Research Program, Princess Margaret Hospital. Fundraising campaigns include Baycrest Centre, University of Western Ontario, Princess Margaret Hospital, Toronto Fashion Incubator, United Jewish Appeal and Israel Cancer Research Fund. |
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Dr. William Reichman Dr. William Reichman is President and Chief Executive Officer of Baycrest, one of the world’s premier academic health sciences centres focused on aging and brain function. Dr. Reichman, an internationally-known expert in geriatric mental health and dementia is also Professor of Psychiatry on the Faculty of Medicine at the University of Toronto. He is a noted authority on the delivery of mental health and dementia services in nursing home settings.Dr. Reichman is a former President of the American Association for Geriatric Psychiatry and the Geriatric Mental Health Foundation and serves as a consultant to the Civil Rights Division of the United States Department of Justice on dementia and mental health-care delivery within nursing homes. He previously served as the Senior Health columnist for the Star Ledger, New Jersey’s highest circulation newspaper and has been interviewed and quoted by most of the major media outlets in the United States and Canada. Among honors received, Dr. Reichman is named among the Best Doctors in America and Canada and previously has been recognized by the New Jersey Society on Aging as Gerontologist of the Year. He is a recipient of a Bronze Telly award for an educational documentary film entitled, Reflections of Memory Lost: Understanding Alzheimer’s disease. |
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Dr. Brain Richards Dr. Brian Richards, Psychologist, Neuropsychology & Cognitive Health Psychologist Dr. Brian Richards obtained his Ph.D. from York University and has been a member of Baycrest’s department of psychology since its inception in 1986. He specializes in the treatment of severe memory disorders and provides neuropsychological assessment services within the department of Behavioural Neurology at Baycrest.Dr. Richard’s primary research focus is in the design and training for use of external memory prosthetics. He has developed a program called Memory-Link: a multidisciplinary memory rehabilitation program that addresses the full spectrum of cognitive occupational and social problems that arise following amnesia. |
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Dr. Jennifer Ryan Dr. Jennifer Ryan is a Senior Scientist with the Rotman Research institute at Baycrest, an Associate Professor, department of Psychology and Associate Professor in the department of Psychiatry at the University of Toronto and the Canada Research Chair in Cognitive Neuroscience of Memory. Her research employs reaction time studies, eye movement paradigms and recently, magnetoecephalography (MEG), to examine memory performance of younger and older adults to determine how memory is organized and how it transforms with age and/or brain damage. |
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Dr. Marla Shapiro Dr. Marla Shapiro MDCM, CCFP. MHSc, FRCP, FCFP, NCMP Medical Contributor to CTV’s Canada AM and Medical Consultant for CTV NewsDr. Marla completed medical school at McGill University and trained at the University of Toronto for her Masters of Health Science in Community Health and Epidemiology. She trained in Family Medicine and is certified by the Canadian College of Family Practice. She concluded her specialty training in Community Medicine receiving her Fellowship in Community Medicine from the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada. She holds a Fellowship in Family Medicine and is a NAMS credentialed menopause specialist.In 2000 Dr. Shapiro became the Health and Medical Contributor for CTV’s Canada AM. In addition to her weekly appearances on Canada AM, she is seen on CTV News Channel and as the medical consultant on CTV’s National News with Lloyd Robertson. 2003 saw the exciting addition of Balance: Television for Living Well, in which Dr. Shapiro appeared as host. This refreshing daily health and lifestyle show is seen across North American households and has sold internationally. Dr. Shapiro wrote a regular column for the Globe and Mail and currently writes a health column for Canadian Health and Living as well as her weekly blog on the CTV website. She is Editor of ParentsCanada as well as Health Essentials. She writes a regular Ask Dr. Marla column for ParentsCanada. She is a member of several committees and advisory boards including Cancer Care Ontario, the newly formed Canadian Partnership Against Cancer, Baycrest Hospital, Research Canada and SIGMA Canadian Menopause Society.Dr. Shapiro is the recipient of the 2005 Media Award from the North American Menopause Society for her work in expanding the understanding of menopause, and won the Society of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists of Canada/Canadian Foundation for Women’s Health Award for Excellence in Women’s Health Journalism in 2006 for her documentary Run Your Own Race. The documentary, written, presented and co-produced by Dr. Shapiro, has won numerous industry awards including the New York Film Festival and the Columbus International Film and Video award. Dr. Shapiro received an Award of Excellence from the College of Family Physicians of Canada for her lifelong commitment and dedication to family medicine in 2008. As well she was awarded the Excellence in Creative Professional Activity in 2009 by the University of Toronto, Department of Family and Community Medicine. She was the winner of the 2010 May Cohen Award from the Federation of Medical Women of Canada. The award recognizes a commitment to the professional, social and personal advancement of women physicians and to the promotion of the well-being of women both in the medical profession and in society at large. She is the recipient of the 2010 Peter R Newman Humanitarian Award in recognition of an exemplary commitment to the welfare of individuals or the community, at home or abroad. In 2011 she was honored as a Woman of Action by the Israeli Cancer Research Foundation.Her book Life in the Balance: My Journey with Breast Cancer, was released in Fall 2006 and is a National Bestseller. |
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Dr. Eva Svoboda Dr. Eva Svoboda – Psychologist. Dr. Svoboda is part of a groundbreaking pilot program at Baycrest for individuals who have memory issues, or the early warning signs associated with Alzheimer’s, also knonw as Mild Cognitive Impairment (MCI). |
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Hilary Swank Hilary Ann Swank (born July 30, 1974) is an American actress and film producer.Swank’s film career began with a small part in Buffy the Vampire Slayer (1992) and then a major part in The Next Karate Kid (1994), as Julie Pierce, the first female protégé of sensei Mr. Miyagi. She won the Academy Award for Best Actress twice, as Brandon Teena, a transman in Boys Don’t Cry (1999) and as struggling waitress-turned-boxer, Maggie Fitzgerald, in Million Dollar Baby (2004).Since 2003, Swank has worked as an executive producer, co-producing and starring in Conviction (2010).In 2007, Swank promoted the Pantene Beautiful Lengths Campaign, which donates real-hair wigs to women who have lost their hair due to cancer treatment. She promoted them again in 2008. She donated her own hair both times. |
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Dr. Angela Troyer Dr. Angela Troyer Psychologist and Acting Director of Neuropsychology and Cognitive Health at Baycrest. Dr. Troyer’s primary clinical practice involves neuropsychological evaluation of early cognitive impairment and memory intervention in normal aging and early cognitive impairment. Her research interests focus on memory changes in normal aging and dementia; effectiveness of memory interventions; and relationship between executive functions and memory. |