Protecting the Brain While Healing Hearts Kalliopi Megari
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Discover how specialised brain training programmes can boost recovery and quality of life after heart surgery.
Cardiac surgery can unfortunately lead to cognitive decline which affects the patient’s ability to think, learn, remember and make decisions. This not only impacts an individual’s wellbeing, but can also result in morbidity and higher health care costs.
Clinical neuropsychologist Kalliopi Megari of the CITY College, University of York Europe Campus, will explain how cognitive reserve - the brain’s ability to cope with damage - plays a key role in recovery. She’ll stress the need for assessments that target this reserve so that patients can be guided into specialised cognitive enhancement programmes designed to improve post-surgery recovery and outcomes.
Kalliopi will also discuss how rehabilitation programmes pre-surgically might also be able to reinforce cognitive reserve before any surgery-related decline occurs.
This event will take place live on Zoom Webinar. You will receive a link to join a couple of days before the event and a reminder an hour before. During the event, you can ask questions via a Q&A function, but audience cameras and microphones will remain muted throughout.
About the speaker
Dr Kalliopi Megari is an Academic Director of the postgraduate programme in Clinical psychology at CITY College, University of York Europe Campus, and a Postdoctoral Researcher at Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. She is also Adjunct Lecturer at the University of Western Macedonia in Florina. She holds undergraduate degrees in Nursing and Psychology, as well as a Masters and a PhD in Neuropsychology from Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. Currently, she is a Global Membership Committee member of International Neuropsychological Society and leader of Rehabilitation of COVID-19 patients working group of NeuroCOVID International Neuropsychology Taskforce SIG. Her work has earned her many prestigious international awards. She was an Ambassador of National Academy of Neuropsychology (NAN), USA Leadership and Ambassador Development Program (2022-23).
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