Sandra Black

Sandra E. Black, MD, FRCPC, holds the inaugural Brill Chair in Neurology, Department of Medicine, University of Toronto, Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre. She is the Brain Sciences Program Research Director, Sunnybrook Research Institute, directs the LC Campbell Cognitive Neurology Research Unit, and is Site Director for the Heart and Stroke Foundation Centre for Stroke Recovery. Her research interests include the cognitive and behavioural consequences of stroke and vascular brain disease, stroke recovery, the differential diagnosis of dementia, and the use of neuroimaging techniques to elucidate brain-behavior relationships in stroke and dementia, including quantitative structural imaging ad functional magnetic resonance imaging. She has authored/co-authored over 300 publications and is actively engaged in treatment trials for stroke and stroke recovery, Alzheimer’s Disease, and Vascular Cognitive Impairment.


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