Student Neurology Symposium - Second Edition
Second Edition

List of the speakers :

Alexandre Poppe, MD. Associate professor in the department of Neurosciences at Université de Montréal. 

• Adult Neurology residency program director. Vascular Neurologist at CHU Notre-Dame.
• His principal interest is Vascular Neurology, more specifically stroke in the young adult, cerebral vasculitis, stroke imaging and treatment of acute stroke. 
• Dr. Poppe sits on the Canadian Stroke Best Practice Recommendations consulting board.
• Training :
  • MD - McGill University
  • Neurology Residency - McGill University
  • Vascular Neurology fellowship - University of Calgary

Amit Bar-Or, MD. Professor in the department of Neurology and Neurosurgery at McGill University. 

• Dr. Bar-Or's principal interest is Multiple Sclerosis and related disorders. 
• He is currently President of the Canadien Consortium of MS Clinics (CNSMS) and Scientific Director of the Clinical Research Unit at the Montreal Neurological Institute (MNI) as well as founder and director of the Experimental Therapeutics Program at MNI. 
• He also directs a cellular and molecular Neuroimmunology laboratory that studies basic principles of immune regulation and immune-neural interaction, in the context of inflammation, injury and repair of the human central nervous system (CNS). 
• Training : 
  • MD from McGill University
  • Neurology residency and Fellowship training in Neuroimmunology at Harvard University 
  • Harvard/MIT Clinical Investigator Training Program (CITP)

Jeanne Teitelbaum, MD, Clinical Professor in Medicine and Neurology at Université de Montreal and Associate Professor, Department of Neurology and Neurosurgery, McGill University, Montreal. 

• Program Director for the Neurocritical Care Fellowship at the Montreal Neurological Institute. 
• President of the Canadian Neurological Sciences Federation
• Training : 
  • MD from Université de Montréal 
  • Residency in Int. Med./Neurology at McGill University 
  • Fellowship in Neurocritical Care at John Hopkin's University and University of Baltimore

Ryoa Chung, PhD in Philosophy. Associate professor at Université de Montréal in the department of Philosophy. 

• Dr. Chung has authored multiple articles published in journal such as Critical Review of International Social and Political Philosophy and Public Health Ethics, and in collective publications such as Bioethics in Canada.
• Training :
  • PhD - Université de Montréal
  • Post doctoral Fellowship - Harvard School of Public Health and Columbia 

Michel Bojanowski, MD. Associate Professor at Université de Montréal and Former Chief of the Neurosurgical service at CHUM Notre-Dame, Montreal. Vascular Neurosurgeon at CHU Notre-Dame, Montreal. 

Cathy Gendron, MD, Neurosurgeon at Centre Hospitalier Régional de Trois-Rivières

• Training : 
  • MD at Université de Sherbrooke
  • Residency in Neurosurgery at Université de Sherbrooke