{"version":1,"type":"rich","provider_name":"Libsyn","provider_url":"https:\/\/www.libsyn.com","height":90,"width":600,"title":"Alastair Buchan - 223 - Alain Elkann Interviews","description":"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\u2019s Pro-Vice-Chancellor and Head of Brexit Strategy. Working to maintain Oxford\u2019s continued presence in Europe he brokered partnerships with the Universities and hospitals in Berlin and  established the Oxford-Berlin Research Partnership, which includes an \u201cOxford in Berlin\u201d centre for Oxford University in Berlin. \u201cWe are starting to learn how to work on brain failure, which results in dementia.\u201d \u201cLight is really toxic to the brain at night, and you do not want to be looking at a computer screen late at night.\u201d \u201cI would put the Universities in charge of health care.\u201d ","author_name":"Alain Elkann Interviews","author_url":"https:\/\/www.alainelkanninterviews.com\/","html":"