FOURTH ANNUAL DEMENTIA CONGRESS - 2005
 
Agenda | Faculty
 

Congress Chairs

Dementia Congress Chair
David S. Geldmacher, MD
Director, Memory Disorders Program
Associate Professor of Neurology
Department of Neurology
University of Virginia Health System
Charlottesville, Virginia

Chair, Track I: Primary Care
Peter J. Lin, MD, CCFP
Past Medical Director
University of Toronto
Director of Primary Care Initiatives
Canadian Heart Research Centre
Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Chair, Track II: Psychiatry
Gary W. Small, MD
Parlow-Solomon Professor on Aging
Professor of Psychiatry & Biobehavioral Sciences
David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA
University of California, Los Angeles
Director, UCLA Memory and Aging Research Center at the
    UCLA Neuropsychiatric Institute
Director, UCLA Center on Aging
Los Angeles, California

Chair, Track III: Neurology
and Future of Dementia Care

Stephen Salloway, MD, MS
Professor of Clinical Neurosciences and Psychiatry
Brown Medical School
Director of the Neurology and Memory and Aging Program
Butler Hospital
Providence, Rhode Island

Faculty Presenters

George S. Alexopoulos, MD
Professor of Psychiatry
Weill Medical College of Cornell University
Director, Weill Cornell Institute of Geriatric Psychiatry
Director, Specialized Services Division
New York-Presbyterian Hospital, Payne Whitney Westchester
White Plains, New York

David A. Bennett, MD
Robert C. Borwell Professor of Neurological Sciences
Director, Rush Alzheimer’s Disease Center
Rush University Medical Center
Chicago, Illinois

Sandra E. Black, MD, FRCP(C)
Professor of Medicine (Neurology)
Head, Division of Neurology
Sunnybrook & Women’s College Health Sciences Centre
University of Toronto Faculty of Medicine
Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Daniel D. Christensen, MD
Clinical Professor of Psychiatry
Clinical Professor of Neurology
Adjunct Professor of Pharmacology
Neuropsychiatric Institute
University of Utah School of Medicine
Salt Lake City, Utah

Rachelle S. Doody, MD, PhD
Effie Marie Cain Chair in Alzheimer's Disease Research
Department of Neurology
Baylor College of Medicine
Houston, Texas

Howard M. Fillit, MD
Clinical Professor of Geriatrics and Medicine
Department of Geriatrics
Mount Sinai Medical Center
Executive Director
Institute for the Study of Aging
New York, New York

Kevin F. Gray, MD
Associate Professor of Psychiatry and Neurology
University of Texas Southwestern Medical School
Director, Geriatric Neuropsychiatry Clinic
Dallas Medical Center
Dallas, Texas

James A. Joseph, PhD
Lead Scientist, Director
Neuroscience Laboratory
USDA Human Nutrition Research Center on Aging
Tufts University
Boston, Massachusetts

Barry D. Lebowitz, PhD
Professor of Psychiatry and Deputy Director
The Sam and Rose Stein Institute for Research on Aging
University of California, San Diego, School of Medicine
La Jolla, California

Bennett P. Leifer, MD
Adjunct Clinical Instructor, Department of Geriatrics and Adult Development
Mount Sinai School of Medicine
New York, New York
Medical Director
Van Dyk Manor Nursing Home
Ridgewood, New Jersey

Daniel Marson, JD, PhD
Professor of Neurology
Associate Director
Alzheimer’s Disease Research Center
Department of Neurology
University of Alabama at Birmingham
Birmingham, Alabama

Ian G. McKeith, MD, F Med Sci
Professor of Old Age Psychiatry
University of Newcastle upon Tyne Institute for Ageing and Health
Wolfson Research Centre
Newcastle General Hospital
Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom

Bruce L. Miller, MD
A.W. and Mary Margaret Clausen Distinguished Chair and Professor of Neurology
University of California, San Francisco School of Medicine
San Francisco, California

John C. Morris, MD
Harvey A. and Dorismae Hacker Friedman Distinguished Professor of Neurology
Director, Alzheimer’s Disease Research Center, Memory and Aging Project,
   and Center for Aging
Washington University
St. Louis, Missouri

Norman R. Relkin, MD, PhD
Associate Professor of Clinical Neurology and Neuroscience
Cornell University
Joan and Sanford I. Weill Medical College
New York, New York

Kenneth Rockwood, MD, FRCPC
Professor of Geriatric Medicine and Neurology
Kathryn Allen Weldon Professor in Alzheimer Research
Dalhousie University
Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada

Gustavo C. Roman, MD
Professor, Department of Medicine/Neurology
University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio
Staff Physician
Department of Neurology
Audie L. Murphy Memorial Veterans Hospital
San Antonio, Texas

Pierre N. Tariot, MD
Professor of Psychiatry, Medicine, Neurology, and Aging and Developmental Biology
University of Rochester
Director, Psychiatry
Program in Neurobehavioral Therapeutics
Monroe Community Hospital
Rochester, New York

Linda Teri, PhD
Professor, Department of Psychosocial and Community Health
Adjunct Professor, Department of Psychiatry
     and Behavioral Sciences and Department of Psychology
Founding Director, de Tornyay Center on Healthy Aging
University of Washington
Seattle, Washington

Gisele P. Wolf-Klein, MD
Professor of Clinical Medicine
Albert Einstein College of Medicine at Yeshiva University
Bronx, New York
Chief, Division of Geriatric Medicine
Long Island Jewish Medical Center
New Hyde Park, New York

Keynote Presenters

John C. Morris, MD
Harvey A. and Dorismae Hacker Friedman Distinguished Professor of Neurology
Director, Alzheimer’s Disease Research Center, Memory and Aging Project, and Center for Aging
Washington University
St. Louis, Missouri

V. S. Ramachandran, MD, PhD
Director, Center for Brain and Cognition
Director, Brain and Perception Laboratory
Professor, Neurosciences and Psychology
University of California, San Diego
La Jolla, California