William K. Warren, Jr.  Frontiers in Neuroscience Conference
 
Saint Francis Health System, Education Center Auditorium – October 11, 2016
 
11:00am - 11:45 pm    Lunch (Classroom C, Registration required)
 
12:00pm - 1:00 pm      Program in Auditorium
 
“Preventing Alzheimer’s: Pipedream or Possibility?”
Dr. Pierre Tariot is a Phi Beta Kappa graduate of Amherst College who attended the University of Rochester School of Medicine.  He completed residencies in Internal Medicine and Psychiatry at the University of Wisconsin in Madison, Wisconsin.  He served as a Fellow at the Intramural Research Program of the National Institute of Mental Health.  In 1986, he joined the faculty of the University of Rochester Medical Center, achieving the rank of Professor of Psychiatry, Medicine, Neurology, and Aging and Developmental Biology. He served as Director of the Memory Disorders Clinic, Director of Psychiatry at Monroe Community Hospital, and Director of the University of Rochester component of the NIA-funded Alzheimer’s Disease Cooperative Study.  Since 2006, he has been at the Banner Alzheimer’s Institute, where he serves as Director.  Dr. Tariot has investigated, and lectured extensively on, multiple aspects of diagnosis, therapy and prevention of Alzheimer’s disease, and has published over 350 papers on these topics. He has served as author for several studies that have led to FDA approval of treatments for Alzheimer’s disease. He has led efforts to refine our ability to measure behavioral changes in dementia and contributed to large multicenter trials of a range of treatments for these neuropsychiatric features. He has participated in efforts to identify novel therapies for Alzheimer’s as well as to develop novel clinical trials methods for studying them. He serves as co-director of the Alzheimer’s Prevention Initiative, an NIH-funded international program to study experimental therapies that may delay or even prevent the symptoms of Alzheimer’s in people at high imminent risk.  Dr. Tariot leads the Banner "Dementia Care Initiative," a program designed to demonstrate the clinical and cost-effectiveness of standardized care for persons with dementia in a large health care system. He is a Research Professor of Psychiatry at the University of Arizona College of Medicine and a member of the American College of Neuropsychopharmacology.  He has earned several awards for his research, including the American Geriatrics Society New Investigator Award for Neuroscience, an NIMH Geriatric Mental Health Academic Award, the 2005 UCLA Turken Award, and he was named the 2012 Geriatrician of the Year by the Arizona Geriatrics Society.  Dr. Tariot’s research affiliations include the National Institute of Mental Health, the New York State Department of Health, Arizona Department of Health, the National Institute on Aging, the Institute for Mental Health Research, and the Alzheimer’s Association. 
 
Three Learning Objectives: 

1. Explain the clinical and biological features of Alzheimer’s disease
2. Understand the nature of experimental approaches to treatment and prevention of Alzheimer’s disease
3. Review the current rationale and design of Alzheimer’s prevention research

 
To register, email:  Lauren Haguewood at lehaguewood@saintfrancis.com
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PLEASE NOTE CHANGE IN LOCATION
In our upcoming "Healthy Brains for a Healthy Oklahoma" lecture, Dr. Martin Paulus will provide parents, teachers and community members with valuable information on how the brain is affected by alcohol, exercise, meditation, sleep and the Zika virus in his lecture "The Brain- from Alcohol to Zika".

​Cost: FREE
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The Healthy Brains for a Healthy Oklahoma lecture series is sponsored by the Laureate Institute for Brain Research (LIBR) and the Adolescent Brain Cognitive Development (ABCD) group at LIBR.

​The brain is affected by many factors in our environment. This lecture will select a few topics and discuss the latest findings in the literature.  In some cases, e.g. Zika, new information is still emerging, but it is important to separate fact from fiction. Dr. Paulus will discuss what we know and don’t know about how the brain is affected by (1) alcohol, (2) exercise, (3) meditation, (4) sleep, and the (5) Zika virus.  The review of the brain findings will be followed by a question and answer session with the audience.

Dr. Paulus is a Board Certified Psychiatrist and Neuroscientist.  He studied Medicine at the Johannes Gutenberg University in Mainz from 1979-1985. Dr. Paulus completed his medical training and internship at the Long Island Jewish Medical Center / Zucker Hillside Hospital on Long Island, NY.  Subsequently, he joined the Department of Psychiatry at UCSD and also became a staff psychiatrist at the Veterans Affairs San Diego Health Care System (VASDHS). In May 2014, Dr. Paulus moved to Tulsa OK to take the position as the Scientific Director and President of the Laureate Institute for Brain Research (LIBR).