Celebrate World Brain Day by joining the BC Brain Wellness Program and the Djavad Mowafaghian Centre for Brain Health for a live session of presentations and panel discussion about expanding research and brain health practices beyond traditional and Western models of science and care.
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Featured speakers:
Dr. Silke Appel-Cresswell
Dr. Silke Appel-Cresswell is a movement disorder neurologist and Associate Professor for Medicine/Neurology at the University of British Columbia. She holds the Marg Meikle Professorship for Research in Parkinson’s disease and directs the Pacific Parkinson’s Research Centre at UBC. Her research focusses on the role of the microbiome in Parkinson’s disease, and other brain disorders, nutrition and other lifestyle interventions as well as non-motor symptoms of Parkinson’s and is a leader in the use of ultrasound guidance for botulinum toxin injections in movement disorders. She is the founding director of the BC Brain Wellness Program and previously served as the president of the Canadian Movement Disorder Society and as the Director of the Canadian Residents Course for Movement Disorders. She is the recipient of a 2022/2023 UBC Killam Teaching Award, and was made an Honorary UBC Medical Alumna in 2024.
Dr. Tanya Barretto
Tanya Barrettois a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Neuroethics Canada and Project Lead for the Ethics arm of the Mend the Gap project. Dr. Barretto received her BSc in Biochemistry from Concordia University, Montreal, her MSc in Biochemistry from the University of Essex, England and her PhD in Medical Sciences from the University of Toronto. She uses her basic science background in regenerative medicine in neurotrauma models of spinal cord injury and traumatic brain injury to drive the ethics and knowledge translation aspects of Mend the Gap at Neuroethics Canada. In her free time, Dr. Barretto can be found travelling to explore off the beaten track locations.