March 9, 2024
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The Changing Dementia Landscape: Risk Reduction, Early Detection, and Treatment.
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A ONE – DAY CONFERENCE: Designed to bring together health care professionals, including providers, clinical researchers, residential care facility and community agency administrators in the greater Los Angeles area who care for persons with Alzheimer’s disease and other dementias. This year’s conference will focus on the changes taking place in prevention, early recognition and diagnosis and new and emerging treatments. Presentations by clinicians and researchers with expertise and extensive experience in dementia will be complemented by first person experiences of individuals and their care

WHO SHOULD ATTEND: Physicians, Physician Associates/Assistants, Nurses, Nurse Practitioners, Psychologists, Social Workers, Marriage and Family Therapists, Care Managers, Gerontologists, RCFE and Nursing Home Administrators, Pharmacists, Dentists, Clergy, Physical and Occupational Therapists, Speech Therapist and other providers/health care professionals. 

CE and CME Hours will be available pending board approval.
Registration is now open.
$100 in person registration with CEs
$75 in person registration no CEs
$75 virtual registration with CEs
$50 virtual registration no CEs
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Conference Schedule

8:00 AM

Check-in and continental breakfast

9:00 AM

Overview and background: Freddi Segal-Gidan, PA, PhD
Keck USC/Rancho CADC

9:10 AM

Tony Kuo, MD
Department of Public Health, Los Angeles County Health Agency

9:30 AM

Michelle Keller, PhD
USC School of Gerontology

10:00 AM

Janet Choi, MD
Keck USC

10:30 AM

10:45 AM

Ruth Lopez, La Buena Vida Instructor and Rancho Los Amigos Wellness Center

10:50 AM

David Johnson, PhD
UC Davis

11:20 AM

Heather Schickendanz, MD
Los Angeles County Department of Health

11:50 AM

Soo Borson, MD
CDC BOLD Public Health Center of Excellence,
Keck USC

12:20 PM

1:00 PM

Lon Schneider, MD
Keck USC

1:30 PM

(Panel arranged by Alzheimer's Los Angeles)
Panel Facilitator- Cassandra Rivera, MSW

2:30 PM

2:45 PM

(Panel arranged by Alzheimer's Los Angeles)
Panel Facilitator- Heather Cooper Ortner
Helena Chui, MD, Keck USC/Rancho CADC
Scott Kaiser, MD, Pacific Brain Health Center
Anthony Hou, MD, Kaiser Permanente LA Medical Center
Dung D. Trinh, MD, Healthy Brain Clinic

3:45 PM

Freddi Segal-Gidan, PA, PhD
Keck USC/Rancho CADC

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