This page aims at featuring our early careers researchers. Please feel free to browse through their pages. They all answered several questions regarding their career path and interests.
Dr. Sheila Castro Suarez, MD
Position: Neurologist
Instituto Nacional de Ciencias Neurologicas, Lima, Peru
Frontotemporal dementia, behavioural variant of FTD
📧 [email protected]
What is your area of research as it relates to FTD?
I am doing basic clinical research en bvFTD
What inspired you to do FTD research?
The suffering of patients and their families, the challenges they face in diagnosis and then living with them in a country with no information in Spanish.Â
What challenges have you faced in FTD research?
In my country this type of dementia is not taught in most universities, health professionals have a great lack of knowledge about this disease
What hopes do you have for FTD research?
I wish to provide some kind of support to caregivers, encourage courses to improve the knowledge of this disease in professionals and to learn and research more about this disease (clinical, genetic aspects), do collaborative studies with other countries.Â
