SECOND ANNUAL DEMENTIA CONGRESS - 2003
 
Agenda | Faculty
 

Congress Chairs

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

Chair, Track I: Primary Care Issues in Dementia
Richard J. Ham, MD
Director, West Virginia University Center on Aging
Professor of Geriatric Medicine
West Virginia University College of Medicine
Morgantown, West Virginia

Chair, Track II: Geriatric Psychiatry and Behavioral Issues in Dementia
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
Los Angeles, California

Chair, Track III: Neurologic Perspective on the Management
and Future of Dementia Care

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

Faculty Presenters

Steven E. Arnold, MD
Assistant Professor
Director, Laboratory for Cellular and Molecular Neuropathology
Center of Neurobiology and Behavior
Department of Psychiatry
University of Pennsylvania
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Jeffrey L. Cummings, MD
Augustus S. Rose Professor of Neurology
Professor of Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Sciences
Director, UCLA Alzheimer's Disease Center
David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA
University of California, Los Angeles
Los Angeles, California

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

Steven T. DeKosky, MD
Director, Alzheimer's Disease Research Center
Professor and Chairman, Department of Neurology
University of Pittsburgh
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

Davangere P. Devanand, MD
Professor of Clinical Psychiatry and Neurology
Columbia University
College of Physicians and Surgeons
Co-Director of the Memory Disorders Center and Late-Life Depression Clinic
New York State Psychiatric Institute
New York, New York

P. Murali Doraiswamy, MB, ChB
Associate Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences
Duke University School of Medicine
Durham, North Carolina

Howard Feldman, MD
Division of Neurology
Clinic for Alzheimer’s Disease and Related Disorders
University of British Columbia
Vancouver, Canada.

Patrick J. Gillette, MD
Director
Mood and Memory Center of Southern Oregon
Senior Staff Physician
Clinical Research Institute of Southern Oregon
Assistant Medical Director
Providence Medford Medical Center Hospice
Medford, Oregon

Philip B. Gorelick, MD, MPH, FACP
Deborah R and Edgar D Jannotta Presidential Professor of Neurology
Rush Medical College
Director, Center for Stroke Research
Section of Cerebrovascular Disease and Neurologic Critical Care
Rush Hospital
Chicago, Illinois

Kevin F. Gray, MD
Director
Geriatric Neuropsychiatry Clinic
Dallas Veterans Affairs Medical Center
Assistant Professor of Psychiatry and Neurology
UT Southwestern Medical School
Dallas, Texas

Dilip V. Jeste, MD
Estelle and Edgar Levi Chair in Aging
Professor of Psychiatry and Neurosciences
Chief, Division of Geriatric Psychiatry
University of California, San Diego, School of Medicine
VA San Diego Healthcare System
San Diego, California

Bennett P. Leifer, MD
Clinical Instructor, Department of Geriatrics & Adult Development
Mount Sinai School of Medicine
New York, New York
Attending Physician, Internal Medicine/Geriatrics
Department of Medicine
The Valley Hospital
Ridgewood, New Jersey

Donna L. Masterman, MD
Director of the Katherine and Benjamin Kagan Alzheimer's Disease Treatment Program
Associate Clinical Professor, Neurology
Department of Neurology
David Geffen School of Medicine
University of California, Los Angeles
Los Angeles, California

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

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

Gustavo C. Roman, MD
Professor, Department of Medicine
University of Texas Medical School at San Antonio
Division of Neurology
UTHSCSA Medical School
San Antonio, Texas

Stephen Salloway, MD, MS
Associate Professor of Clinical Neurosciences
Brown Medical School
Director of Neurology and The Memory Disorders Program
Butler Hospital
Providence, Rhode Island

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

Gisele Wolf-Klein, MD
Associate Professor
Albert Einstein College of Medicine
Bronx, New York
Chief, LIJ Division of Geriatric Medicine
Long Island Jewish Medical Center
New Hyde Park, New York

Keynote Presenters

Konrad Maurer, MD
Professor
Center of Psychiatry
Johann Wolfgang Goethe University
Frankfurt, Germany

David Snowdon, PhD
Director, The Nun Study
University of Kentucky
Sanders-Brown Center on Aging
Lexington, Kentucky

David Hyde Pierce
Actor