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Dr. Lise Eliot
Dr. Steven G. Feifer
Dr. David Levine
Dr. John Mighton
Dr. Rex E. Jung
Dr. Garfield Gini-Newman
Dr. George McCloskey
Dr. Fraser Mustard
Dr. Daniel Ansari
Dr. Lise Eliot
Dr. Lise Eliot is Assistant Professor of Neuroscience at The Rosalind Franklin University of Medicine & Science/The Chicago Medical School and author of What’s Going On in There? How the Brain and Mind Develop in the First Five Years of Life (Bantam, 2000). A Chicago native, she received an A.B. degree from Harvard University, a Ph.D. from Columbia University, and did post-doctoral research at Baylor College of Medicine in Houston. She is currently writing a book about sex differences in children’s brains and learning, to be published by Houghton-Mifflin. Dr. Eliot lives in Lake Bluff, Illinois with her husband and their 12-year-old daughter and 12- and 9-year-old sons.
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Brain Development & Early Learning
The Truth About Sex Differences in the Brain and Behavior
Dr. Steven G. Feifer, D.Ed., NCSP, ABSNP
Dr. Steven G. Feifer is a nationally renowned speaker in the field of learning disabilities and has conducted numerous seminars and trainings for educators and psychologists throughout the United States and Canada. He is dually trained as both a nationally certified school psychologist from James Madison University, and is also board certified by the American Board of School Neuropsychology. His doctorate work was conducted at Indiana University of Pennsylvania, with research stints at the National Institute of Health (NIH) in Bethesda, MD. His first book, The Neuropsychology of Reading Disorders: Diagnosis and Intervention was voted neuropsychology publication of the year for 2001 by the National Association of School Psychologists. His second book, The Neuropsychology of Written Language Disorders: Diagnosis and Intervention has also received critical acclaim. Dr. Feifer currently works as a school psychologist in Frederick, MD, teaches in the Baltimore/Washington.
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The Neuropsychology of Written Language Disorders
The Neuropsychology of Emotional Disorders
The Neuropsychology of Mathematics
Dr. David Levine
David A. Levine, teacher, author, facilitator, and musician, has been working with students, teachers, and parents across the United States and abroad since 1984. He is the founder and director of In Care of Students, a training, development and research group which is devoted to creating Schools of Belonging. He is the author of three books including the Teaching Empathy: A Blueprint for Caring, Compassion and Community and The School of Belonging Plan Book.
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The School of Belonging
Dr. John Mighton
John Mighton is a mathematician, author, playwright, and the founder of JUMP Math. He tirelessly volunteers his time and expertise at JUMP as the lead curriculum developer for the JUMP Math Student Workbooks and Teacher's Manuals. He also donates all proceeds from publications to JUMP.
Dr. Mighton completed a Ph.D. in mathematics at the University of Toronto and was awarded an NSERC fellowship for postdoctoral research in knot and graph theory. He is currently a Fellow of the Fields Institute for Research in Mathematical Sciences and has also taught mathematics at the University of Toronto. Dr. Mighton also lectured in philosophy at McMaster University, where he received a Masters in philosophy.
Dr. Rex E. Jung
Dr. Rex E. Jung, Ph.D., is a research scientist with the Mind Research Network (MRN), an Assistant Research Professor with the Department of Neurosurgery at the University of New Mexico, and a neuroscience consultant with Sandia National Laboratories. ~His research interests focus upon the structural correlates of intelligence, creativity, and positive affect, particularly white matter contributions to higher cognitive functioning in normal human brain. ~He was the first researcher to describe neurochemical correlates of intelligence and cognition in humans using proton Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy, resulting in a patent to measure intelligence with MRI (#6,708,053).
Dr. Jung holds a Bachelor's degree from the University of Colorado, Boulder, and Master's and Ph.D. degrees in Psychology from the University of New Mexico, Albuquerque. ~He completed an internship in clinical psychology at the Baylor College of Medicine in the departments of neurosurgery and behavioral medicine, and is a practicing clinical neuropsychologist. ~He is currently funded by the National Institutes of Health to study clinical populations including schizophrenia and systemic lupus erythematosus.
Dr. Jung is a member of the Society for Neuroscience, the International Society for Magnetic Resonance in Medicine, the Organization for Human Brain Mapping, and the International Society for Intelligence Research. ~He has appeared on BBC, CNN, and other news programs designed to facilitate better understanding of neuroscience research within the non-professional public.
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Neuromythology of Creativity (and the Brain)
The Einstein Hypothesis
Dr. Garfield Gini-Newman
The Critical Thinking Consortium is a Social Studies Lecturer at OISE/University of Toronto and a senior national consultant with The Critical Thinking Consortium. Formerly he was a curriculum consultant with the York Region District School Board and a classroom educator for 15 years teaching a range of subject including History, Philosophy, Politics and English. He has spoken across Canada and internationally on critical thinking, brain compatible classrooms, curriculum design and effective assessment practice. Garfield has also authored seven textbooks and has taught in the faculties of education at York University and the University of British Columbia.
Dr. George McCloskey
Dr. George McCloskey, is a Professor and Director of School Psychology Research in the Psychology Department of the Philadelphia College of Osteopathic Medicine. He is also the Director of the SPARK Project (School Psychologists Adopting Refined Knowledge) for the New York City Department of Education, which involves updated skills training for 1100 school psychologists. He maintains a private practice that involves consulting with state departments of education, universities, and school districts, and performing independent evaluations and conducting interventions for schools and private clients. Dr. McCloskey frequently presents at national, regional and state meetings on executive function assessment function prompts and the executive function demands embedded in instruction and other classroom activities, and become aware of resources to assist with planning, implementing, and monitoring the outcomes of interventions designed to improve the classroom performance of students with executive function difficulties.
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Executive Functions and Classroom Learning and Production
Memory, Learning and Production
The Role of Visual Processing in Reading and Learning
Dr. Fraser Mustard
Following the completion of his MD in Toronto in 1953, Dr. Mustard began his distinguished research career during his PhD. studies at Cambridge where he focused on the role of blood platelets in cardiovascular disease. This research continued for ten years at the Blood and Vascular Disease Research Unit in Toronto and during this time the inhibitory effect of aspirin on platelet function was demonstrated.
Platelets remained the focus of his research after he moved to McMaster University in 1966 where he recruited many international scientists who helped to establish McMaster as a major center for thrombosis research. As a founding member of its medical school he was deeply involved in developing its innovative problem-based program of medical education that has been adopted as a model around the world.
In 1982 Fraser Mustard changed his career path and took on the challenge of establishing the Canadian Institute for Advanced Research [CIAR], serving as its president for 14 years. To create this “institute without walls” Fraser brought together distinguished investigators from across Canada and around the world to carry out research in interdisciplinary teams exploring significant scientific and social challenges.
Fraser Mustard now heads the Founders’ Network, involving more than 1000 individuals with whom he made connections as he developed and arranged funding for the CIAR programs. Currently, his primary mission is emphasizing the crucial importance of a child’s experiences in the first six years of life. In 1999 he co-authored the Early Years Study on early learning with specific community recommendations. In 2002 he set up the Council for Early Child Development and Parenting and has become a tireless advocate nationally and internationally of the importance of early brain development for health, behaviour, learning, and quality of life.
Throughout his career, Fraser Mustard influenced health policy in Canada by serving on many federal and provincial committees, councils and royal commissions. He has received many awards and honorary degrees, including the Gairdner International Award, the Canada Council Izaak Walton Killam Memorial Prize, and the William J. Dawson Medal of the Royal Society of Canada. He is a Companion of the Order of Canada and a Laureate of the Canadian Medical Hall of Fame.
Fraser Mustard’s many accomplishments have relied on his outstanding ability to establish connections, networks and interdisciplinary research. Those who have worked with him are awed by his energy, vision, insight, and leadership ability.
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Human Development in the 21st Century
Dr. Daniel Ansari
Daniel Ansari received his undergraduate degree in Psychology at the University of Sussex (1999). From there he went on to study for his PhD at the Institute of Child Health, University College of London, UK. At UCL he worked under the supervision of Professor Annette Karmiloff-Smith and wrote his PhD thesis on the numerical and mathematical abilities of children with Williams syndrome. During his PhD studies, he became increasingly interested in Neuroscience, leading him to study for an MSc in Neuroscience at the University of Oxford. From 2003-2006 he was an Assistant Professor of Education at Dartmouth College, where he was part of an Education Department whose principle mission was Educational Neuroscience.
Since 2006, Daniel Ansari has been Canada Research Chair in Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience at the University of Western Ontario in Canada, where he heads the Numerical Cognition Laboratory. Ansari and his team explore the developmental trajectory underlying both the typical and atypical development of numerical and mathematical skills, using both behavioral and neuroimaging methods.
Daniel Ansari – brief description of presentation
In this presentation, Dr. Ansari will review what is currently known about “The Mathematical Brain”. That is, how the brain represents numerical quantity (the number of items in a set) and how it transforms quantities in the process of calculation. In the presentation, particular attention to the brain processes involved in enumerating and calculating and how these change over the course of learning and development. Moreover, Dr. Ansari will discuss discusses how the brains of individuals with and without mathematical difficulties differ both functionally and structurally from each other. At several points throughout his presentation, Dr. Ansari will suggest ways in which the evidence reviewed may inform both the thinking and practice of educational professionals.
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Typical and atypical development of numeracy and arithmetic: insights from cognitive neuroscience
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