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Past Events - Alzheimer Day

June 1, 2007
Keynote Speaker:
Rudolph Tanzi, PhD
Professor of Neurology, Harvard University
Director, Genetics and Aging Research Unit
Massachusetts General Institute for Neurodegenerative Disease
"Alzheimer's Disease: From Genes to Therapies"

May 12, 2006
Keynote Speaker:
Bruce Miller, MD
Professor of Neurology and Clinical Director of the Memory & Aging Center and the Alzheimer’s Disease Research Center University of California – San Francisco
"What's New in Frontotemporal Dementia"

May 6, 2005
Keynote Speaker:
Marilyn S. Albert, PhD
Director of the Division of Cognitive Neuroscience Department of Neurology Co-Director, Johns Hopkins Alzheimer’s Disease Research Center Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
"Understanding Prodromal Alzheimer's Disease"

May 7, 2004
Keynote Speaker:
Zaven S. Khachaturian, PhD
Director of the Alzheimer's Association's Ronald & Nancy Reagan Research Institute in Potomac, Maryland, and former director of the National Institute on Aging's Office of Alzheimer's Disease Research.
"Barriers and Opportunities in Alzheimer's Disease Research: A Case Study for the Politics of Science"

May 16, 2003
Keynote Address:
Leon Thal, MD
Professor of Neurosciences
University of California, San Diego
“Alzheimer’s Disease: Update on Research and Treatment”

May 10, 2002
Keynote Address:
Dennis Dickson, MD
Consultant and Professor of Pathology
Mayo Clinic Jacksonville
“The Amygdala in Alzheimer’s Disease: Identification of a Real Lewy Body Variant of Alzheimer’s Disease”

May 11, 2001
Keynote Address:
John Hardy, MD
Director of the Center for Neuroscience
Consultant and Professor of Neuroscience and Pharmacology
Mayo Clinic Jacksonville
“Dissecting the Etiology of Neurodegenerative Disease and Building the Perfect Beast”

Community Leadership Award:
Melvin and Carolyn Hicks
Founders, Renaissance Adult Day Services – The Renaissance Center

May 12, 2000
Keynote Address:
Carl W. Cotman, PhD
Director, Institute for Brain Aging and Dementia
Professor, Neurology and Neurobiology and Behavior, University of California – Irvine
“Mechanism of Neuronal Degeneration in the AD Brain: Apoptosis vs. Tangle Formation?”
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Community Leadership Awardee:
Thomas Jones
Southeast Regional Director, Chicago Department on Aging

May 7, 1999
Keynote Address:
John Growdon, MD
Professor of Neurology, Harvard University
Director, Massachusetts Alzheimer’s Disease Research Center
“Arnold Pick Tangles with Alois Alzheimer: A Story of Tau”

May 8, 1998
Keynote Address:
John Trojanowski, MD, PhD
Professor of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine
University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine
“Fatal Attractions: Abnormal Protein Aggregation and Neuron Death in Alzheimer’s Disease and Lewy Body Dementia”

May 16, 1997
Keynote Address:
Donald Price, MD
Professor of Pathology, Neurology and Neuroscience
Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
Neuropathology Laboratory
“Alzheimer’s Disease and Lou Gehrig’s Disease: Lessons from a Model System”

May 17, 1996
Keynote Address:
Dennis Selkoe, MD
Professor of Neurology and Neuroscience, Harvard Medical School
Co-Director, The Center for Neurologic Diseases, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Boston
“Amyloid-B Protein: Connecting Genetics to Therapeutics in Familial Alzheimer’s Disease”
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May 19-20, 1995
Keynote Address:
Zaven Khachaturian, PhD
Associate Director, Neuroscience and Neuropsychology of Aging Program, National Institutes on Aging
“National Overview of Alzheimer’s Research”
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