Zahinoor Ismail MD

Dr. Ismail is a clinician scientist in the Cumming School of Medicine at the University of Calgary. Dr. Ismail attended both medical school and residency in Alberta finishing in 1999 and completed a fellowship in Geriatric Neuropsychiatry at the University of Toronto in 2006. His clinical work stems the breadth of neuropsychiatry, with a focus on the interface between neurological and psychiatric disorders.

Dr. Ismail’s lab in the Ron and Rene Ward Centre for Healthy Brain Aging Research, where he is a Principal Investigator and collaborator in several areas of research including: 1) neuroimaging and biomarkers of neuropsychiatric symptoms as early presymptomatic indicators of neurodegenerative disease and dementia; 2) biomarkers of neurological mimics of psychiatric disease; 3) linked database research of adverse drug reactions with psychiatric and neurological medications; 4) clinical psychopharmacology and clinical trials in cognitive and neurodegenerative diseases; and 5) systematic reviews and meta-analyses of neuropsychiatric symptom prevalence.