Global Neurology Forum: Impact of Trauma & Violent Conflict in War Time on Brain Health & Healing

Exploring Core Challenges / Track 2 

Impact of Trauma & Violent Conflict in War Time on Brain Health & Healing 

Goals

1. Understand how violent conflict and physical and mental trauma impact the brain health of individuals of different ages and implications for cognitive impairment and neurodegenerative conditions
2. Explore examples from established research and emerging work on brain health equity in war zones and situations of forced migration in a variety of geographic settings
3. Consider approaches for healing and recovery, including the role of the arts

Speakers

• Tala Al Rousan, MD, MPH, Epidemiologist Physician, Atlantic Fellow for Equity in Brain Health - GBHI, and Assistant Professor and Founding Faculty at the Herbert Wertheim School of Public Health and Human Longevity, UC San Diego

• Laura María Calderón Cuevas, MA, Musician, Dancer, Teaching Artist, and Internationalist, Atlantic Fellow for Equity in Brain Health - GBHI, and Project Manager & Music-Centered Workshop Senior Leader at Musicians For Human Rights in Greece

• Raquel Gardner, MD, Neurologist, Director of Clinical Research, Joseph Sagol Neuroscience Center, Sheba Medical Center, Tel Hashomer, Ramat Gan, Israel, and former UCSF MAC Faculty

• Bruce Miller, MD, A.W. And Mary Margaret Clausen Distinguished Professor in Neurology, UC San Francisco; Director, UCSF Memory and Aging Center (MAC); Founding Director, Global Brain Health Institute  (Introductory Remarks)

• Hernando Santamaría-García, MD, MSc, PhD, Psychiatrist, Atlantic Fellow for Equity in Brain Health - GBHI, and Director of the Ph.D. Program in Neuroscience at the Javerian University Bogotá, Colombia

Other speakers with added global perspectives will be announced soon.

Moderators

• Jon VanLeeuwen, PhD, Assistant Professor of Neurology, UCSF and Executive Director, UCSF Weill Institute for Neurosciences and Camellia Latta, MLA, Program Director for Alumni Relations & Special Initiatives, Global Brain Health Institute, UCSF

Co-curators

UCSF Department of Neurology faculty members Jon Van VanLeeuwen (GBHI) and Riley Bove with the UCSF Global Teleneurology Service; GBHI staff member Camellia Latta.