AAIC Satellite Symposium 2023 Highlights

05/29/23 • 31 min

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In today's episode, Dr Chi Udeh-Momoh, Research Programme and Biomarker Lead at Imperial College London and GHBI Fellow at University California, San Francisco talks to a line-up of captivating guests as we dive into sharing insights from the AAIC Satellite Symposium 2023 – focussing on the latest research from Latin America. -- This week’s guests are all currently GBHI Fellows, and highly respected researchers at their home institutions: Dr Adolfo M. García, Director, Cognitive Neuroscience Center, Universidad de San Andres / Senior Atlantic Fellow, Global Brain Health Institute, University of California, San Francisco / Associate Researcher, Universidad de Santiago de Chile. Adolfo specializes in language in neurodegenerative diseases. Dr Alison Canty, Associate Professor, & Atlantic Fellow for Equity in Brain Health at Global Brain Health Institute, Trinity College Dublin / Wicking Dementia Research and Education Centre, University of Tasmania. Alison is researching Neuroplasticity in ageing and neurodegenerative disease. Dr Jayashree Dasgupta, is a GBHI Fellow and Clinical Psychologist working on translating evidence based practices to develop services for mental well-being, active aging and dementia care in India. She is also an ethics researcher and my work involves highlighting perspectives from under-represented settings into clinical research. Michelle Moses-Eisenstein, Atlantic Fellow for Equity in Brain Health and Performing Artist at Global Brain Health Institute, University of California, San Francisco. Michelle is committed to improving the lives of people with dementia and their care partners through innovation across arts programs, grants, communications, and policy. She is a creative and empathetic problem solver motivated to achieve public health solutions and health equity through relationship building, advocacy, education, stakeholder engagement, and strategic partnerships. Dr Chi Udeh-Momoh, Research Programme and Biomarker Lead and currently GHBI Fellow. Chi was I was born in Nigeria and relocated to the UK as a teenager. She has always been fascinated by the brain - how we think, learn and remember; and how these processes can be affected in disease/ alleviated therapeutically. Chi studied Neuroscience all the way through undergrad to PhD, then did my post-doc in neuroepidemiology, her focus is now on Dementia Prevention and biomarkers. -- For more information on the event visit: https://www.alz.org/satellite-symposium/overview.asp For more information on GBHI visit: https://www.gbhi.org/events/gbhi-annual-conference-2023 -- Full biographies on all our guests and a transcript can be found on our website https://www.dementiaresearcher.nihr.ac.uk -- Like what you hear? Please review, like, and share our podcast - and don't forget to subscribe to ensure you never miss an episode – and if you prefer to watch rather than listen, you’ll find a video version of this podcast with full captions on our YouTube Channel – https://youtu.be/zy7mKB49vuw -- This podcast is brought to you by University College London / UCLH NIHR Biomedical Research Centre in association with Alzheimer’s Association, Alzheimer's Research UK, Alzheimer's Society and Race Against Dementia who we thank for their ongoing support.

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