Welcome

Thanks to everyone for stopping by our booth at ICAD 2010 - it was a pleasure meeting each of you and being able to share our knowledge together. C5R was very honoured to attend ICAD this year, and privileged to share our resources. Alzheimer’s Association International Conference on Alzheimer’s Disease (ICAD)

The Consortium of Canadian Centres for Clinical Cognitive Research (C5R) was founded in 1991 by a group of neurologists, geriatricians and psychiatrists from across Canada. A number of the founding members had worked together on the Canadian Study on Health and Aging (CSHA) and the C5R grew from this practical experience of Canadian collaborative research.

The C5R has 32 accredited sites in all of the Canadian provinces with 49 full members, 33 associate members and 5 corporate members. Essentially, all academic clinical dementia researchers in our country are members, creating a network of 32 sites who have participated in phase 2, phase 3 and phase 4 dementia drug trials.

If you wish to apply for C5R membership please download the C5R Membership Application Form.

C5R Objectives

• facilitate collaborative clinical cognitive research in Canada .
   
• establish a forum for the exchange of information relevant to research in cognitive disorders.
   
• consider and make recommendations upon methodologies of clinical cognitive research and to advocate for appropriate treatment of clinical cognitive disorders.
   
• provide consensus opinion upon clinical research issues as may most expediently benefit the health of the Canadian population, including guidelines for practice.
   
• develop liaison with agencies supporting cognitively impaired patients.