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Appendix C: Speaker Biographies
Pages 23-28

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... She moved to Johns Hopkins in 2003, after having been on the faculty of the Harvard Medical School for 22 years, where she directed the Gerontology Research Unit at Massachusetts General Hospital. Her major research interests are in the areas of cognitive change with age, disease-related changes of cognition (with a particular focus on Alzheimer's disease)
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... He has a strong interest in behavioral neurology, with specific emphasis on dementing disorders, including degenerative dementias such as Alzheimer's disease and frontal dementias. He also focuses on dementias related to movement disorders and vascular disease, as well as cognitive impairment after closed head injury.
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... He is an active member of several societies, including the Dutch Society for Neurology, the International Psychogeriatric Association, the American Academy of Neurology, the Alzheimer Imaging Consortium, the ISTAART Consortium, and the European College of Neuropsychopharmacology. He is Associate Editor of the Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery and Psychiatry and Book Review Editor of Alzheimer Disease and Associate Disorders.
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... Under his direction, the organization's annual grant budget has doubled, and the program has designated special focus areas targeting the relationship between cardiovascular risk factors and Alzheimer's disease, care giving and care systems, and research involving diverse populations. He played a key role in launching Alzheimer's & Dementia: The Journal of the Alzheimer's Association, and in establishing the Research Roundtable, a consortium of senior scientists from industry, academia, and government who convene regularly to explore common barriers to drug discovery.
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