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Removing the Barriers: It’s Time for a Check Up from the Neck Up CME Program
June 19, 2020 @ 9:00 am - 11:30 am EDT
To protect the health and safety of our participants, this event will be held virtually over the Internet.
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Program Agenda
Removing the Barriers: It’s Time for a Check Up from the Neck Up CME Program
9:00 am – 9:10 am: Welcome & AFA Overview
Charles J. Fuschillo, Jr., President & CEO, Alzheimer’s Foundation of America
Donna de Levante Raphael, National Memory Screening Program Director, Alzheimer’s Foundation of America
9:10 am – 9:30 am: Alzheimer’s & Dementia Overview
Aaron Pinkhasov, MD
Chairman, Department of Behavioral Health at NYU Winthrop Hospital
Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at NYU Long Island School of Medicine
9:30 am – 10:00 am: Screening and Diagnosing Alzheimer’s Dementia
Carole Filangieri, PhD
Clinical Psychiatrist, NYU Winthrop Hospital
Clinical Assistant Professor at NYU Long Island School of Medicine
10:00 am – 10:35 am: Medications and Dementia
FDA approved medications used in dementia
Irving Gomolin, MD
Professor of Medicine at NYU Long Island School of Medicine
Approach to Behavioral and Psychological Symptoms of Dementia
Aaron Pinkhasov, MD
Chairman, Department of Behavioral Health at NYU Winthrop Hospital
Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at NYU Long Island School of Medicine
10:35 am – 10:55 am: COVID Crisis and Dementia Care
Allison B. Reiss, MD
AFA Medical, Scientific & Memory Screening Advisory Board Member
Head of the Inflammation Laboratory at NYU Winthrop Hospital Research Institute
Associate Professor of Medicine at NYU Long Island School of Medicine.
10:55 am – 11:25 am: Question and Answer Session with Speakers
11:25 am – 11:30 am: Closing Remarks
Donna de Levante Raphael, National Memory Screening Program Director, Alzheimer’s Foundation of America
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