Fourteenth Annual Markesbery Symposium on Aging & Dementia Community Session

Name: Fourteenth Annual Markesbery Symposium on Aging & Dementia Community Session
Start: 2024-09-28T08:00:00-04:00
End: 2024-09-28T12:00:00-04:00
Location: The Campbell House

Schedule

Sat Sep 28 2024 at 08:00 am to 12:00 pm

UTC-04:00

Location

The Campbell House | Lexington, KY

Come hear the latest updates regarding research and treatments on brain degenerative disease!
Lisa Barnes, PhD, Professor of Neurological Sciences and Associate Director of the Rush Alzheimer's Disease Center, will present on “Factors that shape brain health and risk of Alzheimer’s disease in older adults."
Charles DeCarli, MD, Distinguished Professor of Neurology and Co-Director of the University of California Davis Alzheimer's Disease Research Center, will discuss "Life’s Essential 8: What you can do to improve your brain health."
Shannon Macauley, PhD, and Greg Jicha, MD, PhD, will present briefly on research at Sanders-Brown Center on Aging.
This year there will be a panel of community members who are engaged in clinical research at the center to share their perspectives on what it means to be a research volunteer. The program will wrap up with everyone’s favorite part, an expert panel, to answer all of your questions directly.
Free Registration & Continental Breakfast begin at 8 a.m. The program will begin at 9 a.m. There is also an option to attend via Zoom.
To register for the Markesbery Symposium Community Session, visit https://tinyurl.com/2024-register-Markesbery.
Need assistance? Call (859) 323-5550 to register by phone.
The Markesbery Symposium is held annually in memory of the late William R. Markesbery, MD, founding director of the Sanders-Brown Center on Aging and Alzheimer's Disease Research Center. Dr. Markesbery's legacy of groundbreaking research has formed the bedrock for our quest to understand and treat Alzheimer's disease and to improve the quality of life of older adults.