University of Toronto Institute of Biomaterials and Biomedical Engineering

• C. Allen
• C. Amon
• B. Benhabib
• S. Black
• G. Borschel
• K. Brock
• J. Cafazzo
• C. Caldarone
• P. Carlen
• M. Chakravarty
• Y. L. Cheng
• A. Cheung
• D. Cheyne
• D. Cvitkovitch
• J. Drake
• Y. Finer
• B. Ganss
• H.J. Ginsberg
• A.A. Goldenberg
• T. Grantcharov
• A. Gross
• A. Guenther
• R.V. Harrison
• B. Hatton
• B. Hinz
• K. Hynynen
• M. Islam
• D. Jaffray
• S. John
• K. W. Johnston
• A. Keating
• S. Kelley
• S. Keshavjee
• P. Kim
• E. Kumacheva
• S. Lapinsky
• R. Li
• R. Mahadevan
• B. Maki
• A. Mandelis
• K.M. McConville
• P. Milgram
• J. Milstein
• C. Morshead
• A. Nachman
• H.E. Naguib
• N. Paul
• K.P.H. Pritzker
• W.S. Ryu
• T. Schweizer
• K. Shojania
• J.G. Sled
• W. Stanford
• C. Steele
• B. Strauss
• Y. Sun
• M. Thompson
• P. van Lieshout
• C. Werner
• C. Whyne
• T. Willett
• K. Woodhouse
• G.A. Wright
• A.J.M. Yee
• G. Zheng

S. Black

Professor

• Brill Chair in Neurology, Department of Medicine
• Neuroscience Program Research Director, Sunnybrook Research Institute
• Institute of Medical Science
• Graduate Department of Rehabilitation Science
• Adjunct Professor, Kinesiology, University of Waterloo
• Clinical Integrative Biology - Brain Sciences Program, Senior Scientist, Director
• LC Campbell Cognitive Neurology Research Unit Director
• Heart and Stroke Foundation Centre in Stroke Recovery Medical Director, Regional Stroke Centre, North and East Greater Toronto Area

Sandra E. Black, MD, FRCPC, holds the inaugural Brill Chair in Neurology, Department of Medicine, University of Toronto, Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre. She is the Brain Sciences Program Research Director, Sunnybrook Research Institute, and Medical Director of the Regional Stroke Centre for the North and East Greater Toronto Area. She directs the LC Campbell Cognitive Neurology Research Unit, and is Site Director for the Heart and Stroke Foundation Centre for Stroke Recovery. She is also a Senior Scientist at the Rotman Research Institute at Baycrest. She served as Head of the Division of Neurology at Sunnybrook from 1995-2006.

Research Interests

The cognitive and behavioural consequences of stroke and vascular brain disease, stroke recovery, the differential diagnosis of dementia, and the use of neuroimaging techniques to elucidate brain-behavior relationships in stroke and dementia, including quantitative structural imaging and functional magnetic resonance imaging. She has authored/coauthored over 300 publications and is actively engaged in treatment trials for stroke and stroke recovery, Alzheimer’s Disease, and Vascular Cognitive Impairment.

Recent Publications

Gabryelewicz T, Masellis M, Berdynski M, Bilbao J, Rogaeva E, St. George-Hyslop P, Barczak A, Czyzewski K, Barcikowska M, Wszolek Z, Black SE, Zekanowski C. Intra-familial Clinical Heterogeneity Due to FTLD-U with TDP-43 Proteinopathy Cause by a Novel Deletion in Progranulin Gene (PGRN). Journal of Alzheimer’s Disease (in press August 2010) (Co-SRA)

Patterson KK, Gage WH, Brooks D, Black SE, McIlroy WE. Changes in Gait Symmetry and Velocity After Stroke: A Cross-sectional Study from Weeks to Years After Stroke. Neurorehabilitation and Neural Repair (in press)

Protzner AB, Mandzia JL, Black SE, McAndrews MP. Network Interactions Explain Effective Encoding in the Context of Medial Temporal Damage in MCI Patients. Human Brain Mapping (in press)(C)

Ramirez J, Gibson E, Quddus A, Lobaugh NJ, Feinstein A, Levine B, Scott CJM, Levy-Cooperman N, Gao FQ, Black SE. Lesion Explorer: A Comprehensive Segmentation and Parcellation Package to Obtain Regional Volumetrics for Subsortical Hyperintensities and Intracranial Tissue. NeuroImage (in press September 2010) (SRA)

Herrmann N, Black SE, Li A, Lanctôt KL. Discontinuing Cholinesterase Inhibitors: Results of a Survey of Canadian Dementia Experts. International Psychogeriatrics (Epub ahead of print September 2010)