Sunday | 24 Nov 2024

EMEA Advisor, Harris Eyre, presents at the European Academy of Neurology Annual Meeting

On July 1st, EMEA Advisor, Harris Eyre, Fellow in Brain Health at the Rice University Baker Institute for Public Policy, provided a keynote at a European Academy of Neurology Symposium titled ‘Brain Health: Buzzword of the Future for Neurologists?’.

Dr Eyre’s presentation was titled ‘Unearthing the Socio-economic Burden of Neurological Disorders
to Drive Large-scale Innovation and Investment’. He provided an overview of the new field of Brain Health Policy Entrepreneurship, the value of the IHME Brain Health Atlas as a tool for policy makers, and a range of other brain health innovations such as the Brain Capital Dashboard.

Dr Eyre provided his remarks remotely from his home in the United States.

Other symposium contributors included:

  • Prof. Anne Hege Aamodt, Oslo University Hospital; The Norwegian Centre for Headache Research, Department of Neuromedicine and Movement Science, NTNU, Norway
  • Dr Orla Galvin, European Federation of Neurological Associations, Belgium
  • Prof. Giovanni Frisoni, Geneva University and University Hospitals, Switzerland
  • Dr Agne Straukiene, Torbay and South Devon NHS Foundation Trust, UK

This event was sponsored by Roche.