Christina Wolfson

CLSA Principal Investigator

Site Principal Investigator, Montreal

Scientific Director, Data Curation Centre

Dr. Christina Wolfson is a professor in the Department of Epidemiology, Biostatistics Occupational Health and Department of Medicine at McGill University, and a senior scientist in the Brain Repair and Integrative Neuroscience Program at the Research Institute of the McGill University Health Centre. She is trained as a biostatistician and epidemiologist. Her program of research lies in the epidemiology of neurodegenerative disorders (dementia, multiple sclerosis, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, epilepsy, and Parkinson’s disease) and in the health of older Veterans. She also maintains a methodological and statistical research program, the goals of which are to improve both the design and analysis of observational studies. As a principal investigator on the Canadian Longitudinal Study on Aging, she leads the Neurological Conditions Initiative and the Veterans Health Initiative. She is also the director of the CLSA Data Curation Centre and was the inaugural chair of the CLSA Interim Data and Sample Access Committee. Dr. Wolfson has served on national and international advisory and research review committees including the Medical Advisory Committee of the Multiple Sclerosis Society of Canada, the Neurological Disease Surveillance Advisory Committee of the Public Health Agency of Canada. She has also been a member on five U.S. National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine panels, charged with examining various aspects of the neurological health of military veterans. She is currently the chair of the Steering Committee for the EnvIMS (Environmental Risk Factors for Multiple Sclerosis) study, a case-control study of MS risk factors carried out in Canada, Italy, Norway, Sweden and Serbia and is a member of the Scientific Advisory Board of the Canadian National Progressive Multiple Sclerosis Cohort (CanProCo). Dr. Wolfson is also the program director for the endMS National Education and Training Program. At the university level, Dr. Wolfson is the McGill University Research Integrity Officer. She supervises undergraduate students, graduate students and clinical fellows in the departments of epidemiology, biostatistics and occupational health, neurology and neurosurgery, and mathematics and statistics at McGill University.