Rachel Shayna Rosenbaum

Biography

Shayna Rosenbaum received her Ph.D. in Cognitive Neuropsychology from the University of Toronto in 2004. She then completed a postdoctoral fellowship in Clinical Neuropsychology and Cognitive Neuroscience at the Rotman Research Institute at Baycrest in Toronto and became registered as a Clinical Psychologist with the College of Psychologists of Ontario. She has been an Assistant Professor in the Department of Psychology and Neuroscience Graduate Diploma Program at York University and Associate Scientist at the Rotman Research Institute in Toronto since 2005. She combines patient and fMRI studies to investigate the organization of spatial, episodic, and semantic memory, and the relationship between remote memory and non-mnemonic abilities. Her work is supported by the Canadian Institutes of Health Research and the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council. She is a recipient of a Canadian Institutes of Health Research New Investigator Award and early career awards from the Ontario Ministry of Research and Innovation, Canadian Association for Neuroscience (CAN), and the Canadian Society for Brain, Behaviour, and Cognitive Science (CSBBCS). Recently, she was elected as a member of the inaugural cohort of the College of Scholars, Artists, and Scientists of the Royal Society of Canada and received the inaugural President's Emerging Research Leadership Award.

Research Interest

Behavioural Sciences, Clinical Psychology, Cognitive Processes, Dementia, Neuroscience