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Evdokia Anagnostou and the concept of a good life
The Holland Bloorview clinician and research director discusses how growing up on a small island shaped her career and the existential questions that keep her up at night.
By
Brady Huggett
1 September 2023 | 1 min read
Evdokia Anagnostou is a child neurologist, vice president of research and director of the Bloorview Research Institute in Toronto, Canada. In this episode of “Synaptic,” Anagnostou discusses emigrating from Greece to the United States, the translational goal of mining for autism genes, and the nature of sin.
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