Discovery Café – Dementia Update 2025 – Dr. Christopher Skinner
Thursday, September 25, 2025 at 7:00 PM at the Blackburn Community Hall, 190 Glen Park Drive
Join Dr. Skinner for this informative session during which he will:
- review the different types of dementia and how dementia affects daily life;
- review strategies to delay the progression of the different types of dementia; and
- review some the medications available and their side effects.
A period for questions and discussion will follow.
Dr. Skinner received his B.Eng (Electrical) from the Royal Military College in 1970. He worked as a CELE officer in Moosonee and then at NDHQ between 1970 to 1975.
He received his medical degree from Queen’s in 1979 and then served as a Flight Surgeon at CFB North Bay and then as the Base Surgeon at CFB Ottawa. He received his specialist certification in General Internal Medicine in 1986 in Neurology in 1987 and qualified as a Diplomat of the American Board of Sleep Medicine in 2005.
In 2011, Dr. Skinner completed a three-month sabbatical with the Institute of Medical and Biological Problems of the Russian Space Agency in Moscow studying the neurological and sleep related complications of long duration space flight.
He has co-authored two editions of a textbook of neurology entitled “The Integrated Nervous System” with Dr Walter Hendelman and Dr. Peter Humphreys which includes an interactive web site “integratednervoussystem.com”.
He is currently a member of the Aviation Medical Review Board at Transport Canada and is a consultant for the Department of National Defence in Aerospace Medicine.
He has taught clinical neurology, aviation medicine, and sleep medicine at all levels including medical students, residents, physician assistants and military Flight Surgeons, and continues to teach Neurology, Psychiatry and Neuropathology to medical students and residents at the University of Ottawa, Faculty of Medicine.