Sarah Furtado
Clinical Professor of Neurology
MD, PhD, FRCPC
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Biography
Dr. Furtado is a Clinical Professor in the Division of Neurology of DCNS and a full member of the Hotchkiss Brain Institute. She completed medical school and Neurology residency training at the University of Calgary after having obtained a PhD in neurosciences at McMaster University. Following the completion of her Neurology residency, she completed a fellowship in movement disorders and PET imaging with Dr. Jon Stoessl at UBC.
She works in both the Movement Disorders and Urgent Neurology clinics at the Foothills Hospital. She is an executive member of Canadian Movement Disorders Group, as well as a member of the Royal College Examination Board in Neurology and the Royal College Specialty Committee for Neurology. She has been a past member of the Neurology residency training programme in Calgary and ongoing member of the Parkinson Study Group and Huntington Study Group. She has initiated and co-leads, with Dr Lara Cooke, a programme of physician wellness for the Division of Neurology.