Alastair Buchan - 223 - Alain Elkann Interviews

Alain Elkann Interviews

WORKING WITH THE BRAIN. Alastair Buchan is a British-Canadian doctor who specialises as a clinical neurologist. His main research interest is how to make neuroprotection a reality in the clinic. He currently holds the Chair of Stroke Research at the University of Oxford. From 2008 until 2017, he served as the Dean of Medicine and the Head of the Medical Sciences Division at the University of Oxford, and then from 2017 on as the university’s Pro-Vice-Chancellor and Head of Brexit Strategy. Working to maintain Oxford’s continued presence in Europe he brokered partnerships with the Universities and hospitals in Berlin and established the Oxford-Berlin Research Partnership, which includes an “Oxford in Berlin” centre for Oxford University in Berlin.

“We are starting to learn how to work on brain failure, which results in dementia.”

“Light is really toxic to the brain at night, and you do not want to be looking at a computer screen late at night.”

“I would put the Universities in charge of health care.”