Baycrest's new and exciting speaker series Aging, Innovation and the Mind will explore features and characteristics of the brain. Aimed at aging baby boomers this 'in conversation' series will feature our internationally renowned scientists discussing their research.
Our internationally recognized researchers will teach you how to keep your brain sharp and healthy as you age.
Speaker Series Topics
Featuring
Dr. Fergus Craik
Senior Scientist
Rotman Research Institute
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. His research has found that certain types of cognitive processes hold up better than others in later life. 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.
Earlier this year Dr. Craik traveled to London, England to receive a highly-prestigious honour. He is internationally recognized for his experimental study of human memory processes and was elected a Fellow of The Royal Society.
Professor Emeritus at the University of Toronto, Dr. Craik is among 44 new Fellows and eight Foreign Members elected this year to the renowned national science academy of the United Kingdom and Commonwealth, which dates back to 1660.
For more information about the work Dr. Craik has done, and his bio please click on the links below:
- Video Biography: Dr. Fergus Craik, Senior Scientist
- People with severe memory loss have brighter future (video)
- Baycrest senior scientist elected to The Royal Society
- About Dr. Fergus Craik
- Canadian study shows bilingualism has protective effect in delaying onset of dementia by four years
- Dr. Fergus Craik's research
Guest host
Dr. Marla Shapiro
CTV medical contributor
www.drmarla.ca
Marla Shapiro MDCM, CCFP, MHSc, FRCP(C), FCFP, completed medical school at McGill University. She is a certificant of the College of Family Physicians of Canada and a Specialist in Community Medicine as recognized by her Fellowship from the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada.
She is an Associate Professor in the Department of Family and Community Medicine at the University of Toronto and is in full-time private practice.
In 2000, she became the Health and Medical Contributor for CTV's Canada AM. In addition to her weekly appearances on Canada AM, she is seen on Newsnet and as the medical consultant on CTV’s National News with Lloyd Robertson.
Her book Life in the Balance: My Journey with Breast Cancer, was released in Fall 2006.