Lewy Body Disease in Aging and Dementia

Presenter(s):

Richard Camicioli, Professor of Medicine, Director of the Cognitive Neurology Program, University of Alberta.

After Dr. Camicioli completed a degree Engineering Chemistry at Queen’s University, he completed his MSc in Chemistry, medical education, and residency in Neurology at McGill University. He obtained training in Geriatric Neurology at the Portland VA Medical Center in Portland, Oregon. He is currently Professor of Medicine and director of the Cognitive Neurology Program and a member of the Movement Disorders Program at the University of Alberta. His major research interests relate to biomarkers, including blood, gait and neuro-imaging markers associated with cognition and functional decline in aging and in Parkinson’s disease. He leads the Lewy Body Team in the Canadian Consortium on Neurodegeneration in Aging (CCNA) and is a member of the Movement and Exercise (MEC) and Biomarker teams. He is a co-investigator (Dr. Eric Smith, PI) on the FAVR study. He is a co-applicant in C-OPN (the Canadian Open Parkinson Network) and has over 200 research publications. 

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