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The primary purpose of the University of Toronto Neurology Grand Rounds is to provide continuing medical education (CME) and CME credits, updates in treatment/diagnosis, share research projects/ideas, promote collaboration amongst faculty members, mentor residents and fellows, highlight faculty within the division, and to provide valuable general neurology education to our community healthcare providers, when applicable.

2025-2026 speakers

Archives (with video)

May 8, 2026 - Dr. Kenneth Mack, Rochester, MN
A combined event: Neurology Grand Rounds & John Stobo Prichard Day (with SickKids)
Childhood Migraine and Migraine-Specific Therapies

Apr 17, 2026 - Dr. Gregory Day, Rochester, MN Photo of Dr Gregory Day
A combined event: Neurology Grand Rounds & Brain Medicine Program
Anti-NMDAR Encephalitis: From Madness to Clinical Trials

Mar 27, 2026 - Dr. Mazen Dimachkie, Kansas City, KS, USA Photo of Dr Mazen Dimachkie
A combined event: Neurology Grand Rounds & Vera Bril Neuromuscular Day
Update on Immune-Mediated Necrotizing Myopathy

❌ Recording Not Available.

Mar 06, 2026 - Dr. Matthew Burke, Toronto, ON, CA.
Expectations, Brain-Body Circuits and Neuropsychiatry: The Third of Medicine You Were Never Taught

Feb 27, 2026 - Dr. Andrea Leep Hunderfund, Rochester, MN, USA
More than Metrics: Quality Improvement as a Pathway to Meaning and Well-Being in Medicine

❌ Recording Not Available. The speaker for this session requested that the presentation not be archived.

Jan 16, 2026 - Dr. Steven Vernino, Dallas, Texas, USA
POTS and PANS and Synucleinopathies – An approach to clinical autonomic disorders

Nov 21, 2025 - Dr. Jan Claassen, New York, USA.
Recovery of Consciousness following acute brain injury

Oct 24, 2025 - Dr. Philipp Mergenthaler, Berlin, Germany.
Precision Neurology and Neurometabolic Medicine: Targets, Timing, and Modeling in Mitochondrial Disease and Stroke

❌ Recording Not Available. The speaker for this session requested that the presentation not be recorded.

Sept 26, 2025 - Dr. Will Kingston, Toronto, ON, CA.
Headache in Pregnancy and lactation

Supported through formal partnership with the division of neurology by: Alexion, Argenx, Eisai, EMD Serono, Grifols, Ipsen, Novartis, Roche, Sanofi and UCB.

2024-2025 speakers:

Archives (with video)

A combined event: Neurology Grand Rounds & John Stobo Prichard Day (with SickKids)
May 23, 2025 - Dr. Rima Nabbout, Paris, France
From DEE classification to therapy change of paradigm (no video archived)

May 9, 2025 - Dr. Alex Muccilli, Toronto, ON, CA.
Neurosarcoidosis: Overdiagnosed, Underdiagnosed, and Chronically Misunderstood — A Practical Review

Apr 25, 2025 - Dr. Melissa Li and Dr. Jeff Myers, Toronto, ON, CA.
ACP/GOC & MAID Symposium: A life well lived: Navigating advance care planning, goals of care and MAID

Mar 07, 2025 - Dr. Julien Hébert, Toronto, ON, CA.
Updates in Management of Epilepsy

Feb 28, 2025 - Dr. Götz Thomalla, Germany, BE
Update Acute Stroke Management 2025

Jan 31, 2025 - Dr. Patrick Wen, Boston, MA, US.
Recent Advances in the Treatment of Gliomas

Nov 22, 2024 - Dr. Tamara Pringsheim, Calgary, AB, CA.
What TikTok tics taught us about Tourette Syndrome

Dr. Christos Ganos, Toronto, ON, CA
Neuropsychiatric Movement Disorders and Beyond: From Phenomena to Mechanisms and Treatments (Video not archived)

Oct 25, 2024 - Dr. Alan Carson, Edinburgh, UK
Functional Cognitive Disorders

Sept 27, 2024 - Dr. Aleksandra Pikula, Toronto, ON, CA.
From Life-Changing Experience to Splendors of Brain Care: Future of Stroke Prevention & Brain Health.

Supported through formal partnership with the division of neurology by: Alexion, Argenx, Eisai, EMD Serono, Novartis, Paladin Pharma, Roche, and UCB.

2023-2024 speakers:

Archives (with video)

May 31, 2024 - Dr Michael Okun, Gainesville, FL, USA
Pearls in Parkinson’s Disease Care and Research

May 10, 2024 - Dr Kristen Krysko, Toronto, ON, CA
Management of multiple sclerosis during pregnancy and breastfeeding

Apr 26, 2024 - Dr Keith Josephs, Rochester, MN, USA
Primary Progressive Apraxia of Speech: types, neuroimaging signatures & pathogenetics

Mar 08, 2024 - Dr Christine Hawkes, Toronto, ON, CA
Innovations in Neurointervention

Feb 23, 2024 - Dr Ellen Moro, Dr Marianne de Visser, Dr Amy Hessler, Dr Esther Bui, Dr Amy Yu, Dr Ginette Moores and Dr Alex Muccilli
Sex and Gender Issues in Neurology, Symposium

Jan 26, 2024 - Dr Gordon Smith, Virginia, USA
A Crisis in US Drug Pricing

Nov 24, 2023 - Dr John Gordon Boyd, Kingston, ON
Neuroprognostication after Cardiac Arrest

Oct 27, 2023 - Dr Eduardo Benarroch, Mayo Clinic Rochester MN
An approach to evaluation of autonomic failure

Sept 22, 2023 - Dr Jonathan Rohrer, UCL Queen Square Institute of Neurology, London, UK
Edging closer to therapies for frontotemporal dementia

Supported through formal partnership with the division of neurology by: Alexion, Amylyx, Argenx, EMD Serono, Grifols, Novartis, Paladin Labs, Roche, Sanofi Genzyme, and UCB.

2022-2023 speakers:

Archives (with video)

A combined event: Neurology Grand Rounds & John Stobo Prichard Day (with SickKids)
May 26, 2023 - Dr Silvia Tenembaum, National Pediatric Hospital Dr. Juan P. Garrahan
The wide spectrum of MOG-antibody-associated diseases

May 12, 2023 - Dr Tanya Simuni, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine
Are we ready for Parkinson's prevention studies?

Feb 24, 2023 - Dr Stephanie Debette, u-bordeaux
Genomics of cerebrovascular disease: from mechanistic insights towards clinical applications

Jan 27, 2023 - Dr Leonard van den berg, UMCU
Towards effective treatment of patients with ALS

Nov 25, 2022 - Dr Francesca Morgante, SGUL
Deep Brain Stimulation in Hyperkinetic Movement Disorders

Oct 28, 2022 - Dr. Lara Cooke, Cumming School of Medicine, UCalgary
From Audit and Feedback to Quality Indicators and Back Again: Leveraging Data to Enhance Physician Performance

Sept 23, 2022 - Dr. Raphael Schneider, UofT, Unity Health Toronto: St Michael's
The earliest signs of multiple sclerosis

Supported through formal partnership with the division of neurology by: Alexion, Amylyx, Biogen, EMD Serono, Grifols, Novartis, Paladin Labs, Roche, Sanofi Genzyme, Teva and UCB.

2021-2022 speakers:

Archives (with video)

May 27, 2022 - Dr. Andy Josephson, UCSF, Weill Institute for Neurosciences
The Rise of the Neurohospitalist Movement and the Future of Inpatient Neurology

A combined event: Neurology Grand Rounds & John Stobo Prichard Day (with SickKids)
May 13, 2022 - Dr. Asif Doja, Ottawa, uOttawa, CHEO
The Hidden Curriculum, Neurophobia and the Implications for Neurology Education

Apr 22, 2022 - Dr. Jeff Cummings, Las Vegas, NV, UNLV
The Alzheimer’s drug development pipeline: what’s coming for the treatment of Alzheimer patients?

February 25, 2022 - Dr. Marieke Wermer, LUMC, Netherlands
Cerebral Amyloid Angiopathy: Emerging concepts and clinical phenotypes

January 28, 2022 - Dr. Morris Freedman, Baycrest, UofT
Virtual Behavioural Medicine Program (VBM): A Game Changer in Care for Neuropsychiatric Symptoms in Dementia

November 26, 2021 (Joint University of Toronto Neurology Grand Rounds & National Grand Rounds)
Pediatric to Adult Transition Care in Neurology Transition Symposium II
Transition Care from Pediatric to Adult Neurology, University of Toronto
Joint initiative between the Division of Adult Neurology, Dept. of Medicine and Division of Pediatric Neurology, Dept. of Pediatrics, University of Toronto

- Left to Their Own Devices: Building the First Canadian Pediatric Neuromodulation Clinic and a New Model of Care of Transition
Dr. Cristina Go, Dr. Carolina Gorodetsky, SickKids and Dr. Alfonso Fasano, UHN, UofT
- The Challenges of Transitioning Care of Patients with Mitochondrial Disease
Dr. Ingrid Tein, SickKids and Dr. Graeme Nimmo, UHN, UofT
- Transitioning care: What can we learn from patient’s experience?
Ms. Melanie Marshall (family of patient)
- Trainees’ Perspectives on Transition of Care
Dr. Katherine Sawicka, Dr. Lindsey Logan and Dr. Kathryn Yang, UofT Adult and Pediatric Neurology Residents
- SMA Therapy: Effect of Cost of Therapy on Transition of Care
Dr. Hernan Gonorazky, SickKids and Dr. Aaron Izenberg, SHSC, UofT
- Insights from Transition in Other Fields: Transitioning Kidney Transplant Care from Pediatrics to Adults
Dr. Mina Matsuda-Abedini, SickKids
- Lessons I’ve learned from treating adolescents & young adults with headache
Dr. Hope O’Brien, (Visiting Professor speaker) Cincinnati, Ohio, University of Cincinnati College of Medicine

October 22, 2021 - Dr. Jon Stone, CCBS, University of Edinburgh
Functional Neurological Disorders - "If I only had a brain"

September 24, 2021 - Dr. Mary Jane Lim-Fat, SHSC, UofT
Precision medicine in glioma: rethinking brain tumors in the molecular era

Supported through formal partnership with the division of neurology by: Alexion, Biogen, Bristol Myers Squibb, EMD Serono, Grifols, Novartis, Paladin Labs, Roche, Sanofi Genzyme, Sunovion, Teva, UCB.

2020-2021 speakers:

Archives (with video)

May 28, 2021 - Dr. Sashank Prasad, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts
The History, and Mystery, of Higher Cortical Visual Disorders

April 23, 2021 - Dr. Nathalie Jette, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, NY, USA
Neuro-epidemiology in action: Findings that are changing clinical practice for people with epilepsy

February 26, 2021 - Transition Care from Pediatric to Adult Neurology, University of Toronto Joint initiative between the Division of Adult Neurology, Dept. of Medicine and Division of Pediatric Neurology, Dept. of Pediatrics, University of Toronto

- Transition Care for Neuroinflammatory Conditions
Dr. Ann Yeh (SickKids), Dr. Jiwon Oh (UHT:SMH, UofT), Jennifer Boyd, Clinical Nurse Specialist (SickKids)
- Transitioning successful models of pediatric complex care
Dr. Eyal Cohen (SickKids)
- Pediatric Transition Preparation in Neuromuscular Disease
Dr. Laura McAdam (Holland Bloorview Kids Rehabilitation Hospital)
- Accessibility Patient Care Advocate
Ms. Maayan Ziv, Patient Advocate, CEO ACCESSNOW.CA
- Transition Care for Neurovascular Disease
Dr. Elizabeth Pulcine (SickKids) and Dr. Cheryl Jaigobin (UHN, UofT)
- Transition Care in Epilepsy
Dr. Elizabeth Donner (SickKids) and Dr. Danielle Andrade (UHN, UofT)
- Transition program in Epilepsy at Necker Hospital: The 2 faces of the medal
Dr. Rima Nabbout, (Visiting Professor speaker) (Paris Descartes University, Paris, France)

November 27, 2020 - Dr. Mary A. O’Neal, Boston, Massachusetts, Brigham and Women's Hospital.
Dr. Esther Bui and Dr. Aleksandra Pikula, UHN, UofT

October 23, 2020 - Dr. Gabor Kovacs, UHN, UofT
Rapidly progressive dementia: causes and diagnostic approach

September 25, 2020 - Dr. Charles Kassardjian, UHT: SMH, UofT, Dr. Houman Khosravani and Dr. Sara Mitchell, SHSC, UofT
The new virtual reality: Neurologic care during COVID and beyond

Supported through formal partnership with the division of neurology by: Alexion, Biogen, Bristol Myers Squibb, EMD Serono, Grifols, Novartis, Paladin Labs, Pendopharm, Roche, Sanofi Genzyme, Sunovion, Teva

2019-2020 speakers:

Archives (with video)

May 22, 2020 - rounds canceled

April 24, 2020 1. Preparedness and response to the COVID-19 pandemic: experience from a tertiary referral hospital in Barcelona, Spain - Dr. Susana Otero-Romero, Vall d'Hebron University Hospital, Barcelona 2. Protected Code Stroke - Dr. Houman Khosravani, SHSC, UofT 3. COVID-19 and Multiple Sclerosis - Dr. Xavier Montalban, UHT: SMH, UofT 4. COVID-19 and Movement Disorders - Dr. Sohaila Alshimemeri, Fellow, UHN: TWH 5. COVID-19 and Neuromuscular Disorders - Dr. Hans Katzberg, UHN: TGH 6. COVID-19 and Epilepsy - Dr. Danielle Andrade, UHN: TWH 7. COVID-19 and Role of Neuroimaging - Dr. Patrick Nicholson, Fellow, UHN: TWH 8. COVID-19 and Neurocritical care – Dr. Jeff Singh, UHN: TWH Special COVID-19 Grand Rounds
February 28, 2020 - Dr. Alfonso Fasano and Dr. Renato Munhoz, UHN, Uof T Deep Brain Stimulation for Movement Disorders: State of the Art and Where We Are Headed
November 22, 2019 - Dr. Richard Camicioli, UAlberta, Canada Cognitive Impairment and Lewy Bodies
October 25, 2019 - Dr. Dariush Dowlatshahi, OHRI, Canada Predicting Intracerebral Hemorrhage Expansion
September 27, 2019 - Dr. Rick Swartz, SHSC, UofT Ontario Neurodegenerative Disease Research Initiative (ONDRI)
Supported through formal partnership with the division of neurology by: Akcea, Alexion, Allergan, Biogen, Celgene, EMD Serono, Grifols, Novartis, Roche, Sanofi Genzyme, UCB

2019	Dr. Agessandro Abrahao
	Dr. Alberto Javier Espay
2018	Dr. Andrew Demchuk
	Dr. Meah Gao, Dr. Russell Rasquinha, Dr. Priti Gros
	Dr. Howard Chertkow
	Dr. Jonathan Trobe
2017	Dr. Dwight Moulin
	Dr. Carolina Barnett-Tapia
2016	Dr. Kenneth Aldape
	Dr. David Chan
	Dr. Bryan Traynor
2015	Dr. Howard Chertkow
	Dr. Aylin Reid
	Dr. Peter Crino
2014	Dr. David Gladstone, Dr. Muhammad Mamdani
	Dr. Enza Maria Valente
	Dr. Peter Whitehouse
	Dr. Richard Aviv, Dr. Danny Mandell
2013	Dr. Murat Emre
	Dr. Alfonso Fasano
	Dr. Bradley Vaughn
2012	Dr. Michael Tymianski
	Dr. Hans Katzberg
	Dr. Andrew Lim
	Dr. Bradley Boeve
2011	Dr. Carmela Tartaglia
	Dr. Arturas Petronis
	Dr. Jacqueline French
2010	Dr. Rick Swartz
	Dr. Allan Purdy
	Dr. Warren Olanow
2009	Dr. Derek van der Kooy
	Dr. Cynthia L. Comella
	Dr. Bryan Young
2008	Dr. Edward Margolin
	Dr. David Mikulis
2007	Dr. Connie Marras
	Dr. Robert S. Fisher
	Dr. Antonio Strafella
	Dr. Nancy Newman
2006	Dr. Gyl Midroni
	Dr. Martin A. Samuels
	Dr. Martin McKneally
	Dr. Andres Lozano
2005	Dr. William Pryse-Phillips
	Dr. Frank Silver
	Dr. Susan Fox
	Dr. Karen Roos
	Dr. Tiffany Chow
	Dr. Jon Ween
	Dr. Jose Biller
2004	Dr. Neil Cashman
	Dr. Anthony Lang

University of Toronto Neurology Grand Rounds

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