2021 SPEAKERS & PANELISTS
Dr. Chris Bowie
Treating cognitive impairment in mental illness
Dr. Chris Bowie is a Professor in the Department of Psychology, and a member of the Psychiatry Department and Centre for Neuroscience Studies, at Queen’s University in Kingston, Ontario. He is the Head Consulting Psychologist at the Early Psychosis Intervention Program in Kingston and a Clinician Scientist at the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health in Toronto. His research interests focus on determining the causes and correlates, and developing treatments for, cognitive deficits in mental disorders such as schizophrenia and mood disorders.
Dr. Judy Illes
Moving out of the darkness of neurocovid
Dr. Judy Illes is a Professor of Neurology and Canada Research Chair in Neuroethics at UBC. She is the Director of Neuroethics Canada, and a faculty in the Centre for Brain Health and at the Vancouver Coastal Health Research Institute. Dr. Illes’ research, teaching and outreach initiatives are devoted to ethical, legal, social and policy challenges at the intersection of the brain sciences and biomedical ethics. She has made groundbreaking contributions to neuroethical thinking for neuroscience discovery and clinical translation
Dr. Myra Fernandes
Interactive q&a panelist
Dr. Myra Fernandes is a Professor at the University of Waterloo under the Department of Psychology. Dr. Fernandes teaches cognitive neuroscience and her lab, the Fernandes Lab, investigates the cognitive and neural factors that influence our ability to encode and remember the past. Her research interests lie in the area of developing an understanding of the cognitive processes, and brain regions, that are involved in memory and language. Dr. Fernandes was recently elected President of the Canadian Society for Brain Behaviour & Cognitive Sciences.
Felicitas Kluger
Interactive q&a panelist
Felicitas Kluger is a PhD candidate in the faculty of science at the University of Alberta. Felicitas studies human verbal memory behaviour and its basis in cognitive and neural processes at the Computational Memory Lab under supervision by Dr. Jeremy Caplan. Her research interest and background lie in mnemonic strategies that allow extraordinary memory recall abilities, as seen in the World Memory Championships.
Dr. Myuri Ruthirakuhan
INTERACTIVE Q&A PANELIST
Dr. Myuri Ruthirakuhan is a postdoctoral fellow at the Sunnybrook Research Institute. Dr. Ruthirakuhan earned her PhD at the University of Toronto in the Department of Pharmacology and Toxicology. Her most recent work has dealt with topics surrounding biomarkers of Alzheimer’s and the use of nabilone to treat agitation and aggression caused by Alzheimer's.
Dr. Con Stough
Interactive Q&A Panelist
Dr. Con Stough is a Professor of Cognitive Neuroscience and Psychology at Swinburne University of Technology in Australia. Dr. Stough is also the Director of the Swinburne's University's Centre for Human Psychopharmacology. His research interests lie in the area of intelligence, the biological basis of intelligence, and ways in which we can improve our intelligence.
