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   National Dementia Awareness Week 2009

Participate in activities and events throughout Dementia Awareness Week 2009, 15 - 25 September.
 

DAW 2009







> DAW Activities around Australia
> DAW Guest Speaker - Professor Constantine Lyketsos
World Alzheimer's Day
> National Dementia Research Forum

DAW Activities and Events around Australia

Want to reduce your risk of Dementia? Attend a Dementia Awareness Week activity in your local area and find out more about Dementia .....facing the epidemic.

Attend a Dementia Awareness Week activity in your local area between 15 September to 25 September 2009.

                         NSW   QLD   VIC 


DAW Guest Speaker - Professor Constantine Lyketsos

Constantine G Lyketsos

 
Dr. Lykestos is an active clinician, teacher, and researcher, Dr. Lyketsos is The Elizabeth Plank Althouse Professor in Alzheimer’s disease research, Vice Chair of Psychiatry at Johns Hopkins University, and Chair of Psychiatry, at Johns Hopkins Bayview. He also directs the Johns Hopkins Memory and Alzheimer's Treatment Center, which provides cutting edge care to large numbers of patients while facilitating the translational research mission for the field.

 

An expert in the care and treatment of patients with Alzheimer’s and related dementias, he has carried out pioneering work regarding the epidemiology and treatment of neuropsychiatric features of Alzheimer disease. His team is developing biomarker methods to accelerate treatment development for Alzheimer’s and designing and implementing innovative clinical trials for the treatment of Alzheimer’s. He also leads efforts to ensure the provision of state of the art Dementia Care to people with dementia in their community or assisted living homes.

 

His clinical expertise has been recognized by citation as one of America’s Top Doctors for several years and was recently cited as a Best Doctor In America. He has been honoured by election to membership of the American College of Psychiatrists, the American College of Neuropsychopharmacology, and as Distinguished Fellow of the American Psychiatric Association. Dr Lyketsos has authored over 250 publications, book chapters, and commentaries, and Guest Edited several Journal special issues. He is the co-author of Practical Dementia Care (with Peter Rabins and Cynthia Steele) and of Psychiatric Aspects of Neurologic Diseases: Practical Approaches to Patient Care (with Peter Rabins, John Lipsey, and Philip Slavney).


 Constantine Lyketsos Australian Itinerary
PDF file, 32 KB, August  2009

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World Alzheimer's Day
21 September 2009


Dementia Collaborative Research Centre's
National Dementia Research Forum
24 - 25 September 2009
The theme of the Forum is Translating Research into Practice. This is applied research – how can the lessons from academia translate into best practice at the clinical coalface? The Forum will showcase the latest research in diagnosis, treatment and management of dementia, as well as providing updates on drug treatments, prevention of dementia and maintaining quality of life with dementia.

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 National Dementia Research Forum Program 2009
PDF file, 417 KB, June 2009


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