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CONVENERS
Robert P. Friedland, MD
- 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th EDITIONS CONVENER - Dr Friedland is
a clinical and research neurologist interested in
behavior and aging. He is a graduate of the City College
of New York and the Mount Sinai School of Medicine
(1973). He completed his neurology residency at the
Mount Sinai Hospital in New York and from 1977-1978 was
a Fellow in dementia and aging under Dr. Robert Katzman
at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine, NY. Since
then he has worked at the University of California Davis
and the Research Medicine Group of the Lawrence Berkeley
Laboratory of the University California, Berkeley. He
served from 1985 to 1990 as Deputy Clinical Director and
Chief of the Section on Brain Aging and Dementia of the
National Institute on Aging Institute, National
Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD. Since 1990 he has
worked at Case Western Reserve University in the School
of Medicine, where he is currently Professor of
Neurology and Psychiatry and Chief of the Laboratory of
Neurogeriatrics. Dr. Friedland’s work has focused on
clinical and biological issues in Alzheimer’s disease
and related disorders. He was among the first to
document patterns of abnormal brain metabolism and
cerebral blood flow in the disease using positron
emission and single photon emission computed tomography.
He also contributed early studies on the use of magnetic
resonance imaging in dementia. The first studies of
problems of driving behavior in patients with
Alzheimer’s disease came from his group at the NIH. More
recently, Dr. Friedland has been working on the patterns
of disease occurrence and risk and protective factors,
with studies of the Kikuku in Kenya, Jews and Arabs in
Israel and Caucasian and African-American subjects in
Cleveland. He has documented a series of important
determinants of the disease, including physical and
mental inactivity, smoking and diet. This work has
focused on interactions of genetic and environmental
lifestyle elements. His group is also using animal
models to better define the pathophysiology of
Alzheimer’s disease and develop new treatments.
Changiz Geula,
PhD - 5th EDITION CONVENER - Dr. Geula
is
Professor of Neuroscience at the Cognitive Neurology and
Alzheimer’s Disease Center, Northwestern University,
Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, IL. He joined
Northwestern in 2007 after two decades at Harvard
Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts. Dr. Geula is the
Director of the Laboratory for Cognitive and Molecular
Morphometry at Northwestern University Medical School.
Dr. Geula received his doctorate in
Biopsychology/Neuroscience from Wayne State University,
Detroit, Michigan. Dr. Geula’s research interests have
focused on the aging of the brain and neurodegenerative
disorders which afflict the elderly, particularly
Alzheimer’s disease. One line of research pursued in his
laboratory concentrates on age-related changes in the
nervous system, including changes in amyloid levels and
microglia function, which contribute to selective
neuronal loss and dysfunction in Alzheimer’s disease.
Chris Messis, MD -
CHAIR, LOCAL ORGANIZING COMMITTEE - Dr. Messis is
Director Director Neuropsychiatry, YGIA Polyclinic in
Limassol and Chairman of the Cyprus Mental Health
Commission. He obtained his medical degree from
the Athens University in Greece and completed his
residence in Neurology and then Psychiatry in Brooklyn,
NY. Dr. Messis has been the President of the
Cyprus Neurological Society between 1981 and 1997 and is
currently Cyprus' delegate to EFNS, WFN and the European
Board of Neurology. He had authored several books
and papers published in peer-reviewed journals.
Marwan Sabbagh, MD -
5th EDITION CONVENER - Dr. Sabbagh is the founding director of the Cleo Roberts Center for
Clinical Research. Opened in 2000, the Center, with Dr.
Sabbagh as the principle investigator, has conducted
more than 30 clinical trials for Alzheimer's and
Parkinson's diseases, as well as prostate cancer and
arthritis. Dr. Sabbagh, a board-certified neurologist,
received his medical degree from the University of
Arizona. He is also the Associate Director of the
Arizona Alzheimer's Disease Core Center, a clinical
instructor in the Sun Health/St. Joseph's Hospitals
Geriatric Fellowship Program, clinical assistant
professor of neurosciences at the University of
California-San Diego and a visiting scientist in the
Department of Neurology at Mayo Clinic Scottsdale. Dr.
Sabbagh served his residency in neurology at Baylor
College of Medicine and a fellowship in geriatric
neurology and dementia at the UC-SD School of Medicine.
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CONVENERS and
LOCAL ORGANIZING COMMITTEE
Fifth Edition Conveners:
Changiz Geula,
PhD,
Professor, Northwestern University
Marwan Sabbagh,
MD,
Director, Cleo Roberts Center of Clinical Research, Sun Health
Research Institute
Chair, Local Organizing Committee:
Chris Messis,
MD,
Chairman, Mediterranean Neurological Society
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