Michael Schlossmacher

Michael Schlossmacher MD is Professor in Neurology at the University of Ottawa in Canada. After his medical education in Vienna and postgraduate studies on Alzheimer’s disease at Harvard University, he pursued clinical training at Brigham & Women’s Hospital and Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston. Since 2000, he has focused his research activities on Parkinson’s disease, first at the Center for Neurologic Diseases at Brigham & Women’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School. Since 2006, he has been based at the University of Ottawa, where he co-directs the Parkinson’s Research Consortium. In 2012, he was named the Bhargava Research Chair in Neurodegeneration at the Ottawa Hospital Research Institute; in 2015, he was appointed director of its Neuroscience Program.