Name: A DIALOGUE ON ALZHEIMER’S AND DEMENTIA
Start: 2025-01-22T16:00:00-06:00
End: 2025-01-22T17:15:00-06:00
Location: AT&T Hotel and Conference Center

$A DIALOGUE ON ALZHEIMER\u2019S AND DEMENTIA$

Featuring Ron Petersen, MD PhD, Director of the Mayo Alzheimer’s Disease Research Center and Director of the Mayo Clinic Study of Aging.
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The Texas Healthy Brain Initiative, Alzheimer’s Texas & The Darrell K Royal Fund

Invite you to join us for

Leading the Conversation Speaker Series
A DIALOGUE ON ALZHEIMER’S AND DEMENTIA

Featuring

Ron Petersen, MD PhD

Director of the Mayo Alzheimer’s Disease Research Center &

Director of the Mayo Clinic Study of Aging

Where:
AT&T Conference Center Salon C - Level M3
1900 University Blvd., Austin, TX

When:
Wednesday, January 22, 2025
Lecture Will Begin Promptly at 4:00 PM

Reception to follow:
Reception at Rowling Hall - 4th Floor | 300 W Martin Luther King Jr Blvd • Austin, Texas
From 5:15 - 7:00 PM

Register to attend this FREE event. Space is limited.

Texas Healthy Brain Initiative —

Alzheimer's Texas —

The Darrell K Royal Fund —

Ronald C. Petersen, MD, PhD, FAAN

Dr. Ronald C. Petersen received a Ph.D. in Experimental Psychology from the University of Minnesota and graduated from Mayo Medical School in 1980. He completed an internship in Medicine at Stanford University Medical Center and returned to the Mayo Clinic to complete a residency in Neurology. That was followed by a fellowship in Behavioral Neurology at Harvard University Medical School/Beth Israel Hospital in Boston, Massachusetts. Dr. Petersen joined the staff of the Mayo Clinic in 1986 and became a Professor of Neurology in 1996. In 2000 he was named the Cora Kanow Professor of Alzheimer’s Disease Research and Mayo Clinic Distinguished Investigator in 2011. He is currently the Director of the Mayo Alzheimer’s Disease Research Center and the Mayo Clinic Study of Aging and has authored over 960 peer-reviewed articles on memory disorders, aging, and Alzheimer’s disease.

Dr. Petersen is one of the recipients of the 2004 MetLife Award for Medical Research in Alzheimer’s Disease and the 2005 Potamkin Prize for Research in Picks, Alzheimer’s and Related Disorders of the American Academy of Neurology. In 2012 he received the Khachaturian Award and the Henry Wisniewski Lifetime Achievement Award in 2013 from the Alzheimer’s Association. In 2011 he was appointed by the Secretary of Health and Human Services to serve as the Chair of the Advisory Committee on Research, Care and Services for the National Alzheimer’s Disease Plan, and in 2014, he was appointed to the World Dementia Council by the UK government.