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Dr. Sarah Morrow

MD, MS, FRCPC, FAAN

Positions

Director, Calgary Multiple Sclerosis Program

Cumming School of Medicine, Department of Clinical Neurosciences

Full Member

Hotchkiss Brain Institute

Contact information

Web presence

Phone number

Office: 403.944.4241

Location

Foothills Medical Centre: South Tower907

Background

Educational Background

Master's Degree Epidemiology, State University of New York, 2011

Fellowship Research Fellowship in Cognition and Multiple Sclerosis, State University of New York, 2010

FRCPC Neurology Residency, University of Western Ontario, 2008

MD Medicine, University of Calgary, 2002

BScH Life Sciences, Queen's University, 1998

Biography

Dr. Morrow is a Professor in the Department of Clinical Neurosciences at the University of Calgary (Calgary, AB) and Director of the Calgary MS Program.

She received her MD from the University of Calgary and completed her residency training in neurology at Western University. This was followed by a clinical fellowship in MS at the London MS clinic at Western University and a research fellowship on Cognition and MS in neuropsychology at the Jacobs Neurologic Institute in Buffalo NY. Dr. Morrow has also completed a Master's of Science in Epidemiology at the State University of New York at Buffalo. 

In addition to her clinical work she is an advocate for the screening and identification of cognitive impairment and other invisible symptoms in persons living with MS. She is a Board member of the Consortium of MS Centers (CMSC) and International Multiple Sclerosis Cognition Society (IMSCOGS) as well as a the steering committee of the IMSCOGS. She is also on the steering committe MS in the 21st Century, an international collaboration with the aim of defining how MS treatment and standard of care should look in the 21st century. 

She currently has over 150 peer review papers published in the area of MS.

Research

Areas of Research

Cognition in PwMS, corticosteroids use for relapses in MS

Awards

  • Canadian Women in Medicine Award, 2023
  • Consult of the Year Award, 2023
  • MS Brain Health Innovation Award, 2022
  • Dr. Joseph Gilbert Research Contribution of the Year Award, Lawson Health Research Institute. 2019
  • Lawson Impact Award for Lawson Strategic Research Fund, Lawson Health Research Institute. 2017
  • Young Investigator Award, European Consortium for Treatment and Research in MS. 2010
  • Fellowship Scholorship, Consortium of MS Clinics. 2010