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Impact of Trauma & Violent Conflict in War Time on Brain Health
February 21 @ 4:00 pm - 5:30 pm
Exploring Core Challenges
Impact of Trauma & Violent Conflict in War Time on Brain Health & Healing .
Goals
- 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
- 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
- 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
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Jon VanLeeuwen, PhD, Assistant Professor of Neurology, UCSF and Director, Strategic Initiatives, for the 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.
