Dr. Eric Smith is Professor of Neurology, Radiology, and Community Health Sciences at the University of Calgary, and the holder of the endowed Katthy Taylor Chair in Vascular Dementia. He is the Medical Director of the Cognitive Neurosciences Clinic and a member of the Calgary Stroke Program. Dr. Smith graduated from McGill University, trained in Neurology in teaching hospitals of Harvard Medical School, and was Assistant Professor of Neurology at Harvard University before being recruited to Calgary in 2008. He has received the Robert G. Siekert New Investigator Award in Stroke from the American Heart Association and has been elected to the Royal Society of Canada College of New Scholars, Artists, and Scientists. Dr. Smith has authored or coauthored more than 400 publications referenced on Pubmed, with an H index of 101 (Google Scholar). In 2020, he was Chair of the Vascular Cognitive Impairment Working Group for the 5th Canadian Consensus Conference on Diagnosis and Treatment of Dementia. Dr. Smith’s research team investigates how cerebral small vessel diseases cause cognitive impairment and dementia.