Howard Chertkow MD

Dr. Howard Chertkow is a cognitive neurologist and co-founder and Director of the Jewish General Hospital / McGill Memory Clinic, the largest such clinic in Canada. He has been continuously funded by the Canadian Institutes for Health Research (CIHR) and its forerunner, the MRC, for the past 20 years. He currently holds CIHR grants to explore the natural history of mild cognitive impairment and the neural substrate of semantic memory. Dr. Chertkow’s salary support has included a prestigious Chercheur national award from the FRSQ.

Dr. Chertkow is past President of the Canadian Consortium of Centres for Clinical Cognitive Research (C5R). He was coordinator of the cognition axis of the FRSQ Network on Aging. He currently sits on the Research Advisory Board of the Alzheimer Society of Canada, and was a key member of a Quebec committee mandated in 2008 to draw up a provincial strategy for dementia management. He is the only non-American sitting on the NIH committee which funds Alzheimers Disease Research Centres across the United States. Dr. Chertkow is the Scientific Organizer of the 2011 world meeting of Alzheimer’s Disease International.