Reducing Risk for Cognitive Decline in
Your 20's, 30's and Beyond:
What is or isn't in our control?
DATE
Monday, October 26, 2015
TIME
5:30 pm - Check-in
6:00 pm - Program and Q&A
8:00 pm - Reception & Book Signing
PLACE
The Times Center
242 West 41st Street
(Between 7th and 8th Avenues)
New York City
RSVP
By Monday, October 19, 2015
Crissy Vicendese (646) 744-2927
CVicendese@alznyc.org
www.alznyc.org/annualmeeting
This event is free of charge and open to the public.
Moderated by
Dr. Max Gomez, CBS 2 Medical Reporter
Distinguished Panel
Richard S. Isaacson, MD
Director of the Alzheimer’s Prevention Clinic, Weill Cornell Memory
Disorders Program, and Director of the Neurology Residency Training Program
at Weill Cornell Medical College/NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital. Dr. Isaacson
specializes in Alzheimer’s disease (AD) risk reduction and treatment,
mild cognitive impairment due to AD and pre-clinical AD. His research
focuses on nutrition and the implementation and longitudinal assessment
of dietary interventions for AD management.
Sarah Janicki, MD, MPH
Assistant Professor in Neurology at Columbia University College of Physicians
and Surgeons, in the Departments of Psychiatry and Neurology, the Taub
Institute for Research on Alzheimer’s Disease and the Aging Brain,
and the Gertrude H. Sergievsky Center. Dr. Janicki’s research focuses
on patients with Alzheimer's disease and related memory disorders.
Her work examines how genetic variations may influence exposure to estrogen
and other hormones over the lifetime, which in turn may affect onset or
progression of AD or cognitive impairment.
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