Event Date: Feb 25, 2025

This webinar will review knowledge and action points about heart and blood health. It will briefly explain the link between heart and brain health. We will review evidence about vascular health that are important to know in the context of brain health. Finally, we will focus on the recommended actions one can take to maintain and improve vascular health to lower dementia risk. The knowledge and action points are summarized from the content of Brain Health PRO – a brain health educational program.
 
This integrated KTE webinar series is brought to you by brainXchange in partnership with the Canadian Consortium of Neurodegeneration in Aging (CCNA).  
 
              


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Presenter(s):

Dr. Eric Smith, MD, MPH, FRCPC, FAHA

Dr. Eric Smith is Professor of Neurology, Radiology, and Community Health Sciences at the University of Calgary, and the holder of the endowed Katthy Taylor Chair in Vascular Dementia. He directs the Cognitive Neurosciences Clinic at Foothills Medical Centre in Calgary, Alberta, Canada. Dr. Smith is a member of the Steering Committee of the 5th Canadian Consensus Conference on the Diagnosis and Treatment of Dementia, Research Executive Committee of the Canadian Consortium on Neurodegeneration in Aging (ccna-ccnv.ca; Canada's federally funded national dementia research network), and is a member of the Board of Directors of the Canadian Consortium of Centres for Clinical Cognitive Research (c5r.ca; a national dementia clinical trials network). He has been the site principal investigator (PI) for numerous trials in Alzheimer’s disease and dementia at the University of Calgary. His investigator-initiated research program seeks to understand vascular contributions to Alzheimer’s disease and dementia through clinical trials, cohort studies, and epidemiological studies on aging, often employing imaging biomarkers. He has more than 550 peer-reviewed publications, with an H index of 130 on Google scholar.