Mandar S. Jog, MD, FRCPC, is the Director of the National Parkinson Foundation Centre of Excellence in Parkinson Disease and Movement disorders program at London Health Sciences Centre and a Professor of Neurology at Western University, both in London, Ontario, Canada. He is also one of the Assistant Directors of the Lawson Health Research Institute.

He trained in Neurology in Toronto and completed a fellowship in movement disorders with Dr. Anthony Lang. This was followed by a 4-year post-doctoral fellowship in computational neuroscience at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Boston, Massachusetts, and a visiting professorship at Stanford Research Institute in California.

In addition to a large clinical practice Dr. Jog supervises many masters, PhD and post-doctoral research and clinical fellows in his laboratory. With 4 patents and 6 provisional patents for innovative technology he is the co-founder of Medtrode Inc. and founder of ManJog Enterprises and MDDT Inc. Dr. Jog's research attempts to probe the structure and function of the basal ganglia and their role in movement disorders. His research projects on which he has published more than 150 papers and over 230 abstracts focus on:

• Technology for the assessment and treatment of movement disorders
• Speech, gait, balance, and posture and planning;
• Virtual reality based navigation in disorders of motor control
• High resolution magnetic resonance imaging
• Animal models and electrophysiology of the basal ganglia;
• Human intraoperative electrophysiological recording;
• Computational and mathematical modeling of information processing in the brain.

Dr. Jog travels internationally to conduct workshops and courses, along with many speaking engagements. Dr. Jog has also published two books including one on the mathematical basis of information processing in the brain, over 150 peer reviewed papers and over 300 conference and abstracts. In addition, Dr. Jog participates in many national and international clinical trials of new treatments for movement disorders.

Dr. Jog was awarded the Dean’s Award for Excellence in Research (2012), Queens Diamond Jubilee award (2013) and has been awarded the 2014 Faculty Scholar Award for exemplary research, teaching and service, the 2014 President’s Award for Innovation from the London Health Sciences Centres and the 2015 Strategic Research Fund Award from the Lawson Health Research Institute.

AGE-WELL Funded Projects

• An In-home Intelligent Exercise System for Physical Rehabilitation, Enhancing Musculoskeletal Function, and Preventing Adverse Events (5.3 IIES-PHYS)

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