Event Date: May 28, 2025



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This presentation will provide an overview of tools for remote cognitive diagnostic assessment and digital biomarkers of dementia.
At the end of the session participants will:
  1. Have an approach to remote cognitive, affective and functional assessment of older persons living with cognitive impairment, and,
  2. become familiar with novel strategies for detection and tracking of cognitive and behavioral change using digital biomarkers.
 
This integrated KTE webinar series is brought to you by brainXchange in partnership with the Canadian Consortium of Neurodegeneration in Aging (CCNA).  
 
              


Presenter(s):

Dr. Maiya Geddes, MD, FRCPC

Dr. Maiya Geddes is a Neurologist Scientist at McGill University and the Director of the Cognitive Neurology Clinical Fellowship Program. Dr. Geddes leads a research program and lab at the Montreal Neurological Institute that is focused on understanding motivational processes in aging and early Alzheimer’s disease using cutting-edge cognitive neuroscience and brain imaging techniques. She applies this new knowledge to design intervention studies and behavioural randomized controlled trials with the ultimate goal of dementia prevention.

Dr. Geddes completed medical school at UBC, a residency in Neurology at McGill followed by a six-year Canadian Institutes of Health Research postdoctoral fellowship at MIT and a second fellowship in Behavioral Neurology and Neuropsychiatry at Harvard. After her fellowship, she joined the faculty at Harvard before returning to McGill in 2019. Dr. Geddes is a Killam Scholar; she is also the recipient of the 2024 Brain Canada Future Leaders award, the 2023 Alzheimer Society Research Program New Investigator Award, and the American Neuropsychiatric Association Career Development Award.