Dr. Jon Erik Ween appointed director of new Stroke and Cognition Clinic at Baycrest

Toronto, CANADA – Baycrest Centre for Geriatric Care is pleased announce the appointment of Dr. Jon Erik Ween as director of the Stroke and Cognition Clinic in the Brain Health Centre Clinics.
Dr. Ween comes to Baycrest from Loma Linda University in California where he was the director of the Stroke Program, an assistant professor of Neurology, and a staff neurologist.

Baycrest’s new Stroke and Cognition Clinic will fill a gap in service throughout the GTA by providing assessment, diagnostic and rehabilitation services to help stroke patients recover lost cognitive function.

“Most of the stroke rehabilitation services available right now don’t focus on cognitive deficits – such as memory -- that occur along side motor (movement) deficits,” says Dr. Ween, who has a special interest in behaviour and stroke. He adds that this gap in service was recognized by the agencies that are part of the Provincial Stroke Strategy.

“By addressing cognitive issues such as perception and memory alongside the physical issues, we can enhance the client’s understanding of the exercise and enhance the benefit it will have for this individual,” says Dr. Ween.

In addition to his administrative and clinical responsibilities as director of the Stroke and Cognition Clinic, Dr. Ween is a clinical investigator in Baycrest’s Kunin-Lunenfeld Applied Research Unit.

“It was the opportunity to apply a research-driven approach to stroke care that enticed me to come to Baycrest,” Dr. Ween explains. “Baycrest, through generous funding by supporters such as the Posluns Family Foundation, has been able to establish a world-renowned academic environment. This environment will surely foster great innovation in the care of stroke victims.”

The new Stroke and Cognition Clinic is affiliated with the Louis and Leah Posluns Centre for Stroke and Cognition at Baycrest and the Heart and Stroke Foundation of Ontario’s Centre for Stroke Recovery.

The Stroke and Cognition Clinic is one of three clinics recently opened as part of Baycrest’s newly-created Brain Health Centre Clinics. The clinics help people with disorders related to mood, memory and stroke. Clients get easy, timely access to a skilled multi-disciplinary health care team, so they can begin therapies as soon as possible. All clients must have a physician referral.

For more information on Baycrest’s Brain Health Centre Clinics, call the central number at 416-785-4359 or visit Baycrest’s website at www.baycrest.org.