5 BAYCREST | 2024
Working together: a story
of success and recognition
Our donors, our staff, and our extended
community all share in our achievements
• Baycrest Academy for Research and Education (BARE)
includes the internationally recognized cognitive
neuroscience centre, Rotman Research Institute, and is
led by President and Chief Scientist Dr. Allison Sekuler.
Baycrest is the #1 most research-intensive hospital
in Canada. Many scientists are ranked by Stanford
University among the most highly cited in the world;
• Baycrest is the scientific headquarters of the Canadian
Consortium on Neurodegeneration in Aging (CCNA),
which includes more than 300 leading dementia
researchers across Canada. Led by Dr. Howard Chertkow,
CCNA is Canada's largest federally funded dementia
research program;
• The Anne & Allan Bank Centre for Clinical Research Trials
at Baycrest has more dementia-related studies of new,
emerging therapies than any other site in Canada, from
pharmaceuticals to novel interventions such as non-
invasive brain stimulation;
• Baycrest President & CEO Dr. Bill Reichman co-chaired
the Government of Canada's Dementia Advisory Board
tasked with developing the nation's dementia strategy;
• Care, education, research and innovation come together
in a spirit of collaboration and inquiry to create a unique
entity that is greater than the sum of its parts. Programs
are informed by physicians, scientists, people living with
dementia and their caregivers;
• Baycrest has a large database of research volunteers,
and assessment/data collection tools that are
inaccessible to most seniors' facilities: MRI, EEG, MEG
and eye-trackers as well as expertise in non-invasive
brain stimulation approaches.
