Officer of the Order of Canada

• Awarded on: May 7, 2015
• Invested on: November 17, 2016

Sandra Black, O.C.
Toronto, Ontario

For contributing to improved diagnosis and treatment of vascular dementia, Alzheimer’s disease and stroke.

Sandra Black has made internationally recognized connections between Alzheimer’s disease, stroke and dementia. She is the director of the Brain Sciences Research Program at Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre, a professor at the University of
Toronto and a practicing physician. She has developed new imaging techniques to better diagnose the early stages of cognitive impairment and has shown that even small strokes that go unnoticed by individuals cumulatively lead to cognitive decline and dementia. Her findings are being widely used by physicians to help in the prevention and treatment of neurological disorders.