Carmela Tartaglia

Dr. Tartaglia is an Associate Professor at the University of Toronto. She received her medical degree from McGill University, completed residency at the Western University and did a clinical/research fellowship in Cognitive/Behavioral neurology at the University of California, San Francisco Memory and Aging Center. She is a cognitive-behavioral neurologist at the UHN Memory Clinic where she sees patients with neurodegenerative diseases with a focus on atypical dementias including young onset Alzheimer’s disease and frontotemporal dementia. She is a scientist at the Centre for Research in Neurodegenerative Diseases where she uses a multi-modal approach for biomarker discovery to facilitate early detection of neurodegenerative diseases. The goal of her research programs is to develop biomarkers for early detection of disease so as to provide treatments to her patients. She has published extensively on FTD and collaborates with local, national, and international consortium to improve diagnosis and understanding of FTD.