Principal Investigator

Vladimir Hachinski, CM, MD (Toronto), DSc (London), FRCPC, FRSC, is a Distinguished University Professor of Neurology and Epidemiology and a Scientist at the Robarts Research Institute, University of Western Ontario, Canada. He has made major contributions to the understanding, diagnosis, treatment and prevention of stroke and dementia. He has published 17 books and
over 1,000 articles. He was President of the World Federation of Neurology. He introduced the concept of vascular cognitive impairment-the vascular treatable and preventable component of most dementias and devised a method of identifying it (an ischemic score). In 2017 he received the Prince Mahidol Award in Public Health. He leads a Dementia Prevention/Brain Health
Initiative.