Carmela Tartaglia

Biography

Dr. Tartaglia is a clinician-scientist at the University Health Network University of Toronto. She received her medical degree from McGill University, completed her residency at the University of Western Ontario and did three years of clinical/research fellowship in Cognitive/Behavioral neurology at the University of California, San Francisco Memory and Aging Center. She maintains a cognitive/behavioral clinic within the UHN Memory Clinic where she sees patients with neurodegenerative diseases with a focus on Frontotemporal lobar degeneration-related syndromes. As well, she is interested in the delayed effects of concussions and sees patients with persisting symptoms of concussion and those with multiple concussions who are at risk of developing a neurodegenerative disease. She holds the Marion and Gerald Soloway Chair in Brain Injury and Concussion Research. She uses a multi-modal approach to develop biomarkers for early detection of neurodegeneration with the ultimate goal of bringing precision medicine and targeted treatments to her patients.