Full Name
Yasser Iturria-Medina
Speaker Bio
Dr. Yasser Iturria-Medina is an Assistant Professor in the Montreal Neurological Institute (McGill) and a Canada Research Chair in Multimodal Data Integration in Neurodegeneration. He is also an associate member of the Ludmer Centre for Neuroinformatics and Mental Health, and the McConnell Brain Imaging Centre (McGill). Iturria-Medina’s Lab – Neuroinformatics for Personalized Medicine – pursues primarily the goal of making precision medicine in Neurology a reality. It focuses on defining and implementing multiscale and multifactorial brain models for further understanding of neurological disorders from a multifactorial perspective and identifying effective personalized interventions. The lab develops integrative mathematical and computational approaches to combine molecular, imaging (PET/MRI) and clinical data, creating both individual and population-based mechanistic brain models.
Yasser Iturria-Medina