Dr. Sandra Black is appointed as an Officer of the Order of Canada

Sandra Black, MD, FRCP(C) is an internationally renowned cognitive and stroke neurologist who holds the inaugural Brill Chair in Neurology, Department of Medicine, University of Toronto and Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre.

In 2011 she was named to the Order of Ontario, cited as an assiduous physician leader and influential architect of the Ontario Stroke System. She has authored/co-authored over 450 papers in a 25-year research career that has bridged dementia and stroke, using neuroimaging to study brain behavior relationships, with a recent focus on interactions of

Alzheimer’s and silent stroke disease. She has earned numerous mentorship and research awards, including election to the Royal Society of Canada in 2012.

In July 2015 she was appointed an Officer to the Order of Canada for her contributions to Alzheimer’s disease, stroke and vascular dementia.

RSI congratulates our very own Dr. Sandra Black on being recently appointed as an Officer of the Order of Canada!

Source: http://www.neuroscience.utoronto.ca/communications/news_cpin_faculty_members.htm