[IE-03] International Education Course 03「Educational session dementia」

[IE-03-5] Disease Modifying Treatments for Alzheimer's Disease

Christopher Chen (National University of Singapore)

Dr Chen is a Senior Clinician-Scientist and Senior Consultant Neurologist at the Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University of Singapore, supported by a Singapore Translational Research Investigator Award from the National Medical Research Council of Singapore.

He trained at Cambridge, Oxford and the Institute of Neurology, London. His major research and clinical interests are in blood biomarkers, neuroimaging and treatment of stroke and dementia. He has published over 500 peer-reviewed papers, leads studies on the treatment and prevention of stroke and dementia, and is a member of trial steering and safety committees.

As Director of the Memory Aging and Cognition Centre he has supervised over 40 post-graduate students, and as co-chair of the World Stroke Organisation’s Future Leaders Program hopes to enhance mentorship of young academics and clinicians.

Through his role as President of the Asian Society Against Dementia and Secretary-Treasurer of the Asian Oceanian Association of Neurology, he aims to build more regional collaborations.