Cohort 
2022

Maison Abu Raya, MD

Neurologist

In the worldwide dementia crisis struggle, we need to address several impeding factors including: cultural, lingual, gender, social and financial factors and the lack of experts in this domain.

Current Work

Maison is a neurologist specializing in Cognitive and Behavioral Neurology.

Personal Hero

My Mother

Words of Strength

Spread love and be human

Vision

Brain health global crisis necessitates a continuous dynamic interprofessional communication to maintain health care professionals’ competencies kept in pace with current standards and to enhance skills needed to stay abreast of the newest evidence.

Strategy

Maison intends to develop validated communalized test batteries in cognitive neurology, taking in account lingual, cultural and social diversities and paving the way towards better prevention, education for brain health and appropriate therapy.

Impact

As an Atlantic Fellow, Maison intends to advance research in ethnicities genetics, lingual and psychosocial differences in dementia, and to develop applicable community-specific recommendations for dementia prevention, detection, diagnosis and treatment.

Motivation

In the Israeli heterogenous society, as in the worldwide dementia crisis struggle, we need to address several impeding factors including: cultural, lingual, gender, social and financial factors and the lack of experts in this domain.