BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:VideoCast CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Charting the Path for Alzheimer's Prevention with the Colombian Kindred with Autosomal Dominant Alzheimer's Disease DTSTART:20220608T190000Z DTEND:20220608T200000Z DTSTAMP:20220610T202100Z UID:Videocast--44272 LOCATION:https://videocast.nih.gov/watch=44272 DESCRIPTION:Yakeel T. Quiroz\, Ph.D.\, Associate Professor\, Departments of Psychiatry and Neurology\, Harvard Medical School\nNIH Director’s Wednesday Afternoon Lecture Series\n\nFlorence Mahoney Lecture on Aging. \n\nQuiroz will discuss how longitudinal studies conducted with Colombian families with autosomal dominant Alzheimer's disease have informed biomarker research\, disease prevention\, and treatment development.\n\nAn associate professor in the Departments of Psychiatry and Neurology at Massachusetts General Hospital\, Harvard Medical School\, Quiroz currently serves as director of the MGH Multicultural Assessment and Research Center and the Multicultural Alzheimer's Prevention Program-MAPP. She is also principal investigator on the NIH-funded COLBOS (COLombia-BOSton) biomarker study that follows individuals from the world's largest extended family with a single\, Alzheimer's-causing mutation (E280A in Presenilin1).\n\nHer findings have helped researchers re-conceptualize Alzheimer's as a sequence of changes that begins decades before cognitive decline\, and which may be targeted by promising disease-slowing treatments and prevention strategies at a time in which they might have their most profound effect. \n\nQuiroz hails from Colombia\, South America\, where she earned her bachelor's degree from the University of Antioquia\, Medellin\, Colombia. She also holds a Master's in Cognitive Neuroscience and Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology\, both from Boston University. Her postdoctoral training was in Clinical Neuropsychology\, Department of Neurology and Psychiatry\, at Massachusetts General Hospital\; where she joined the faculty of Harvard Medical School/Massachusetts General Hospital where she remains.\n\nQuiroz has been recognized broadly for her research\, including with the NIH Director's Early Independence Award\, an MGH Research Scholar Award\, and the Alzheimer' Association's Inge Grundke-Iqbal Award for Alzheimer's Research.\n\nThe NIH Mahoney lecture is named in honor of Florence Stephenson Mahoney (1899–2002)\, who devoted much of her life to successfully advocating for the creation of NIA and increased support for NIH. \n\nFor more information go to https://oir.nih.gov/wals https://oir.nih.gov/wals X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:\n\n
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