2006 Spring ADRC Meeting

Note: Following are links to available presentations from the meeting. The full agendas can be found here.

Directors Meeting

Updates
Alzheimer's Association
Harry Johns, MBA — President
Clinical Task Force.
John Morris, MD — Chair
Scientific Symposium: The Metabolic Syndrome
Metabolic Syndrome: Bad for the Heart, Bad for the Brain?
Kristine Yaffe, MD — University of California, San Francisco
Insulin Metabolism and Alzheimer’s Disease: A Novel Therapeutic Target.
Suzanne Craft, PhD — University of Washington
Brain Insulin Deficiency and Insulin Resistance in Alzheimer’s Disease: Is This Type 3 Diabetes?
Suzanne DeLaMonte, MD — Brown University
Experimentally Induced Diabetes in Transgenic AD Mice Accelerates Brain Pathology.
Giulio Pasinetti, MD, PhD — Mount Sinai School of Medicine
The Biological Markers of Alzheimer’s Disease are Also Present in Islet Amyloid Deposits in Type 2 Diabetes.
Judith Miklossy, MD, PhD — University of British Columbia

Administrators Meeting

Lessons from Past ADCS Recruitments, Including ADNI.
Jackie Bochenek — Program Manager, ADRCS
Panel: Recruitment Success Stories in the ADRCs
Virginia Buckles, PhD, Moderator — Director, Washington University
UDS: The Importance of Informants in Dementia Detection.
John Morris, MD — Director, Washington University