Aging Really Matters: New Directions in Understanding Late Life Neuropsychiatric Disorders

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Aging Really Matters: New Directions in Understanding Late Life Neuropsychiatric Disorders

Constantine Lyketsos, MD Elizabeth Plank Althouse Professor in Alzheimer’s Disease Research and Chair, Department of Psychiatry, Johns Hopkins University

Join us on November 20th when we welcome renowned scientist Constantine Lyketsos, MD as our Distinguished Scientist Lecture series speaker. 

Dr. Lyketsos is the Elizabeth Plank Althouse Professor in Alzheimer’s Disease Research and Chair of the Department of Psychiatry at Johns Hopkins University. An active clinician, teacher, and researcher he founded the Johns Hopkins Memory and Alzheimer’s Center which he directs. Dr. Lyketsos leads the recently constituted Johns Hopkins Precision Medicine Center of Excellence on Alzheimer’s Disease, and is Associate Director of NIA-funded Alzheimer’s Disease Research Center. A world authority in treatment development for Alzheimer’s, he has received multiple major awards, and authored over 400 peer-reviewed articles, chapters, commentaries, as well as five books. His work has been cited over 47,000 times with an h-index of 117 (Google Scholar). Castle-Connolly has named him as one of America’s Top Doctors every year since 2001.

Date & Time: November 20, 2020, 12:00pm to 1:30pm

Join via Zoom. Click on this link to join the lecture; Meeting ID: 926 6123 0747; Passcode: 746167. If you experience any problems with the link, email patrickfm@upmc.edu.  

Learning Objectives: At the conclusion of this lecture, participants will be able to:

  1. Explain of usual brain changes with aging.

  2. Discuss the interface between late life neuropsychiatric disorders and Alzheimer’s disease. 

  3. Propose a new nosology for late life neuropsychiatric disorders.

The entirety of this program will be a lecture by the speaker(s). All individuals able to control the content of this educational activity are required to disclose all relevant financial relationships with any proprietary entity producing, marketing, re-selling, or distributing health care goods or services, used on, or consumed by, patients. Registration is not required for this event. This event is free and there will be no refunds. The University of Pittsburgh is an affirmative action, equal opportunity institution.

For More Information. Please contact Frances Patrick (patrickfm@upmc.edu).

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