Speaker: Dr. Carmela Tartaglia

Dr. Carmela Tartaglia, M.D., FRCPC, is a clinician-scientist at the University Health Network and University of Toronto. She maintains a cognitive/behavioral clinic within the UHN Memory Clinic where she sees patients with neurodegenerative diseases including those at risk of developing a chronic traumatic encephalopathy after repetitive head injury. She is a PI at the Canadian Concussion Centre and holds the Marion and Gerald Soloway Chair in Brain Injury and Concussion Research. She uses a multi-modal approach that combines imaging and biofluid biomarkers to better diagnose and understand the pathological substrates that cause cognitive, behavioral, and motoric dysfunction. The goal of her research program is to develop biomarkers for early detection of disease and bring precision medicine and targeted, early treatments to her patients.