Clinical Neuroscience Rounds
Grand Rounds are held Fridays from 8:00am-10:15am.
In 2026, Grand Rounds will be held in the LIBIN THEATRE, CLARA CHRISTIE, OR THEATRE 4 in HSC. Please check this web page or emailed posters for details each week. Contact: quentin.collier@ahs.ca
The Department of Clinical Neurosciences (DCNS) Grand Rounds is a self-approved group learning activity (Section 1) as defined by the Maintenance of Certification Program of the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada.
DCNS Grand Rounds
A list of upcoming speakers is also available
in the Rounds Reporter app.
Sept. 25: Jan Braun (LIBIN THEATRE)
Oct. 2: Sarah Morrow (LIBIN THEATRE)
Oct. 9: Ève Boissonault (Dukelow)
(THEATRE 4)
Please see weekly email for details.
Alberta Physiatry Rounds
A list of upcoming speakers is also available
in the Rounds Reporter app.
Calgary Physiatry Rounds via Zoom. Please see emails for details and the Zoom meeting link.
Oct. 8: Chantel Debert
Nov. 12: Aravind Ganesh
Dec. 10: Gary Linassai, Stephanie Lovo (UofS)
HBI Seminar Series
More information: https://hbi.ucalgary.ca
DCNS Health Equity Rounds
Recordings
With the presenters' permission, the following recordings are available. All will require AHS login credentials to watch.
DCNS Grand Rounds
2026
Jan. 16: Tait Shanafelt
“Organizational Approaches
to Foster Clinician Well-being”
Jan. 23: Aravind Ganesh
“Large Vessel Disease in Stroke:
Insights from Clinical &
Imaging Innovations”
Feb. 13: Scott Berry (Sam Wiebe Lecture)
“The Fallacy of Ordinal Outcomes:
How to Analyze Stroke Trials”
March 20: Calvin Howard
“The Research and Emerging
Clinical Practice
of Brain Circuit Therapeutics"
May 15: Fiona Costello
"Eyes on the Future:
How Visual Biomarkers are
Advancing Care in Neurology
and Neurosurgery"
Sept. 18: Prashanth S. Ramachandran
Erin L. Palmer Memorial Lectureship
in Neuro-Immunology
“Outside the Box”
2025
Jan. 24: Werner J. Becker
“The History of Migraine:
From Mystery to Science”
Jan. 31: Nathalie Jetté
"Health services research and
neuro-epidemiology in action:
Findings that can inform clinical practice
for people with epilepsy and
neurological conditions”
Feb. 7: Oksana Suchowersky
"Autosomal Dominant
Spinocerebellar Ataxias -
Diagnosis and Treatment”
March 7: Zahra Goodarzi
“Management of Neuropsychiatric
Symptoms in Dementia”
March 14: Valerie Taylor
“Science in Health Policy
Decision Making”
March 21: Chris Hahn, Shaza Almweisheer
“Improving Care in
Autoimmune Encephalitis”
April 25: Michael Nicolle
“Management of Myasthenia Gravis
in 2025 and the Use of Biologics”
May 2: Aleksandra Mineyko
“Beyond Deficits: Neuroscience
Perspectives on Learners in Difficulty”
May 9: Katie Wiltshire, Mei Lan Liem-Beckett
“Clinical Adverse Events.
What to do When the Unexpected Happens”
May 30: Amy H. Ng
“Prehab Before Rehab:
The Why, When and How”
June 20: Lauren Capozzi
“Redefining Recovery: Advancing
Cancer Rehabilitation Across
the Care Continuum”
June 27: Sean Dukelow
“Canadian Stroke Recovery Trials in 2025”
Oct. 24: Markus Reuber
“Trauma and Functional/
Dissociative Seizures”
Nov. 7: Phil Barber
“Climate Change and
Sustainable Health Care”
Nov. 14: Mark Hamilton
“The Next Era for Patients with Idiopathic
Normal Pressure Hydrocephalus (iNPH):
Results of the PENS RCT”
Dec. 12: Farrah Mateen
“Global Neurology and the Three Questions”
2024
Jan. 12: Jacob Alant
“Exploring the pathogenesis, presentation
and management of lumbo-sacral
extradural CSF cysts”
Jan. 26: Mohammed Almekhlafi
“Enemy Within the Walls:
Advancing In-Hospital Stroke Care
Through Innovative Detection &
Zone-Wide Pathway”
May 3: Tamara Pringsheim
“A Tale of Two Registries:
Successes, Failures and Advice
for New Researchers”
May 10: Alicia Hilderley + Maya Pajevic
“Building Authentic
Patient Partnerships
in Research”
May 31: Darren L. Clark
“The Ongoing Quest for
Response Biomarkers
in Neuromodulation”
June 21: Bruce Campbell, Leonid Churilov
“Innovations in design and
analysis of neurology trials:
Adaptive features and
novel outcome measures”
June 28: Juan Silvestre G. Pascual
“Global Neurosurgery
(and Neuroscience):
Challenges, Innovations,
and Opportunities”
Sept. 13: Shelagh Coutts
“Tenecteplase versus standard of care
for minor ischaemic stroke with
proven occlusion (TEMPO-2)"
Sept. 27: Nicholas Earle
“Cultural Shock Among
Postgraduate Students:
A Double Challenge to Consider"
Oct. 25: Christina Sampaio
“Trials and Tribulations of
Evidence-Based Medicine
for Movement Disorders"
Nov. 29: Eran Klein
“Trust in Neurotechnology
Research: Does it Matter?”
Alberta Physiatry Rounds
2026
Jan. 8: Lisa Murphy
“Bridging the Gap:
A Physiatrist's Approach
to Peripartum Pain”
March 12: Amanda Kleisinger
“From diagnosis to function:
The Physiatry approach to
Dystonia Management”
May 14: Hunter Loewen
“What's the Pointe?
Elevating Dance Medicine
in Calgary”
Sept. 10: Ali Bateman
“QI for Patients and the Planet:
Lessons from Doing, Leading,
and Teaching”
2025
Jan. 8: Angie Andreoli, Andria Bianchi,
Danielle Jepson, Meiqi Guo
“ ‘Therapeutic’ Falls: A toolkit
for embracing risk, enhancing
autonomy, and accelerating
recovery in rehab ”
Nov. 13: Anne-Sophie Cauchon
“Lymphedema in breast cancer”
Dec. 11: Najam Mian
“Updates in Pain Medicine”
2024
June 12: Alycia Amatto (UofA)
“The Use of Botulinum Toxin
in the Treatment of
Neuropathic Pain”
Sept. 11: Nancy Harrington
“Use your power for Good:
Integrated Para Sport +
Doing Classification Differently”
Nov. 13: Chris Grant
“Physiatry in Unusual Places"
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