Poster Presentations from the CGS 35th Annual Scientific Meeting 2015 -Montreal QC
Congratulations
Congratulations to Dr. Ryota Sakurai for winning a travel award to the 2015 International Congress on Gait and Posture World Congress (ISPGR) in Seville Spain . Well done Ryota!
Congratulations Dr. Ryota Sakurai
Congratulations to postdoctoral fellow, Dr. Ryota Sakurai who has been awarded with the 2015 AGS New Investigator Award. His award was presented during the 2015 AGS Annual Meeting in National Harbor, Maryland, on May 15th 2015
CIHR Age Plus Prize for our Lab!
Congratulations to Anam Islam & Cedric Annweiler who have been awarded the prestigious CIHR Age Plus Prize in December 2014. The Gait and Brain Lab is so pleased to have 2 of our trainees recognized in this competitive selection which awarded
Dr. Montero-Odasso receives $924,000 to help tackle dementia
LONDON, ON – Lawson Health Research Institute’s Dr. Manuel Montero-Odasso has been awarded $924,000 as part of the Canadian Consortium on Neurodegeneration in Aging (CCNA), a collaborative research program focused on tackling the challenge of dementia and other neurodegenerative illnesses.
There is something about the way you walk! Gait disturbances can help to predict dementia in older adults
About 500,000 Canadians are living with Alzheimer’s disease or a related dementia. Unless the swelling tide of dementia turns, this number is expected to soar to 1.1 million within 25 years. To date, there is no definitive way for health
Dr. Montero Odasso to be features on CHOICE – Japan
Dr. Montero Odasso was interviewed on November 10th by NHK Japan Broadcasting Corporation (the Japanese PBS station) from New York. This will air in Japan early in 2015, on a health care program called CHOICE, which will focus on Dr.
The Canadian Medical Hall of Fame: Discovery Days
The Division of Geriatric Medicine, the Gait and Brain Laboratory at Parkwood Hospital and the Lawson Health Research Institute, are proud to announce their participation in “The Canadian Medical Hall of Fame: Discovery Days”. Elyse Gordon, a Master’s student with
Congratulations to Elyse Gordon
Congratulations to Elyse Gordon who has been awarded the Faculty of Kinesiology Travel Award 2014 and the competitive CIHR Travel Award to present her thesis work entitled ‘Deficits in specific cognitive domains are related to gait performance”, at the 34th
Gait and Brain Week Oct 21-25 2013
The Gait and Brain Lab in conjunction with the Division of Geriatric Medicine and the Western Visiting Scholar Program is proud to announce the upcoming “Gait and Brain Week” at Western from October 21 to October 27. There are several