Overview

A postdoctoral fellowship is available with Dr. Rick Swartz at Sunnybrook Research Institute. Dr. Swartz is a stroke neurologist at Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre, a clinician‑scientist in the Hurvitz Brain Sciences Program at Sunnybrook Research Institute, an Associate Professor in the Department of Medicine (Neurology) and the Institute of Medical Science at the University of Toronto, and an Adjunct Scientist at ICES. His research program focuses on stroke, vascular cognitive impairment, and the development of clinically meaningful cognitive outcome measures in large‑scale randomized controlled trials.

This one‑year fellowship will focus on cognitive outcomes measurement in randomized controlled trials (MACE‑Cog). The successful candidate will contribute to the development, validation, and implementation of pragmatic cognitive outcome approaches that are rigorous, feasible, patient‑relevant, and scalable across trial settings. This work will draw o...