Prof. Nathan Herrmann – Cognitive Assessment in the Elderly: To Screen, or Not to Screen?

Описание: This lecture was recorded as part of the 2nd Cuenca Conference: "Bridges for Health in Old Age: Building Common Ground Across Professions and Stakeholders".
Dr. Nathan Herrmann is Director of Psychopharmacology Services at Merchavim Center for
Brain and Mental Health in Be’er Yaacov, Israel, and a visiting professor at Tel Aviv
University. He is a Professor Emeritus of Psychiatry in the Faculty of Medicine at the
University of Toronto and was formerly the Richard Lewar Chair in Geriatric Psychiatry at
Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre and the University of Toronto. He headed the Division of
Geriatric Psychiatry at Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre from 1991 to 2019 and the
Division of Geriatric Psychiatry at the University of Toronto from 1994 to 2005.

Dr. Herrmann’s research focuses on pharmacotherapy for Alzheimer’s disease and related
disorders, studying treatments for cognition and neuropsychiatric symptoms. He has over
900 publications and has held over 170 research grants, including grants from the Canadian
Institutes of Health Research, the National Institutes of Health, the Alzheimer’s Association,
the Alzheimer’s Drug Discovery Foundation, the Alzheimer’s Society of Canada, Brain
Canada, and the Heart and Stroke Foundation. He has won the Award for Outstanding
Achievements in Geriatric Psychiatry from the Canadian Academy of Geriatric Psychiatry and
the International Psychogeriatric Association’s Distinguished Service Award.

This video is part of a playlist:    • The 2nd Cuenca Conference  

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