In this CME Outfitters Snack, expert faculty will discuss biomarker research findings presented at the Clinical Trials on Alzheimer’s Disease (CTAD) conference, review the identification and measurement of AD pathophysiology, examine a framework for evidencing biomarker profiles of AD, provide updates on prognostic performance and interpretation of biomarkers, and conduct a case-based discussion of clinical impacts and applications.
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11/30/2023
Michelle M. Mielke
Michelle M. Mielke, PhD, is Chair of the Department of Epidemiology and Prevention, Professor of Epidemiology, and Professor of Gerontology and Geriatric Medicine at Wake Forest University School of Medicine. She works as a translational epidemiologist to further understand the etiology and epidemiology of neurodegenerative diseases.
Michelle M. Mielke
Michelle M. Mielke, PhD, is Chair of the Department of Epidemiology and Prevention, Professor of Epidemiology, and Professor of Gerontology and Geriatric Medicine at Wake Forest University School of Medicine. She works as a translational epidemiologist to further understand the etiology and epidemiology of neurodegenerative diseases. One focus of her research is understanding the utility of blood-based biomarkers for implementation at the population level for screening and diagnosing Alzheimer’s disease and related dementias. Another focus of Dr. Mielke’s research is on understanding sex and gender differences in the development and progression of Alzheimer’s disease and related dementias. She is principal investigator of several National Institutes of Health (NIH)-funded clinical and epidemiological-based grants and has published over 400 manuscripts. Dr. Mielke received the John R. Raymond Mentor Award from the Women Scholars Initiative and recently became a Fellow in the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), Section on Neuroscience.
Anna D. Burke
Anna D. Burke, MD, is a board-certified geriatric psychiatrist, the Karsten Solheim Chair for Dementia, and the Director of the Alzheimer’s and Memory Disorders Division at Barrow Neurological Institute in Phoenix, Arizona.
Anna D. Burke
Anna D. Burke, MD, is a board-certified geriatric psychiatrist, the Karsten Solheim Chair for Dementia, and the Director of the Alzheimer’s and Memory Disorders Division at Barrow Neurological Institute in Phoenix, Arizona. She also currently directs the Department of Neuropsychiatry at Barrow Neurological Institute. Barrow Neurological Institute is a world-class neurological and neurosurgical institute with a mission to accept challenges, reject norms, and push boundaries. The Barrow Alzheimer’s and Memory Disorders Division is one of the leading clinical and research institutes in the world, championing research in neurodegenerative disorders.
Dr. Burke has worked extensively with patients and families suffering with neurodegenerative disorders including Alzheimer’s disease (AD). Her area of expertise includes the diagnosis and management of cognitive disorders and the treatment of challenging behavioral and psychiatric disturbances that result from neurological conditions. In addition to her clinical work, she has led the development of comprehensive multispecialty clinical care models focused on improving the quality of care for individuals with cognitive impairment as well as improving the diagnosis and management of AD and related dementias in the community. Dr. Burke is a well-respected researcher, having led over 100 clinical trials of investigational therapies for AD and related dementias, and is a well-respected author and key opinion leader in the field.
In this CME Outfitters Snack, expert faculty will discuss biomarker research findings presented at the Alzheimer’s Association International Conference (AAIC), review the identification and measurement of AD pathophysiology, examine a framework for evidencing biomarker profiles of AD, provide updates on prognostic performance and interpretation of biomarkers, and conduct a case-based discussion of clinical impacts and applications.
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08/18/2023
Henrik Zetterberg
Henrik Zetterberg, MD, PhD, is Professor of Neurochemistry at the University of Gothenburg, Sweden, and University College London (UCL), UK, and a clinical chemist at Sahlgrenska University Hospital in Gothenburg, Sweden.
Henrik Zetterberg
Henrik Zetterberg, MD, PhD, is Professor of Neurochemistry at the University of Gothenburg, Sweden, and University College London (UCL), UK, and a clinical chemist at Sahlgrenska University Hospital in Gothenburg, Sweden. He is Head of the Department of Psychiatry and Neurochemistry at the University of Gothenburg, leads the UK DRI Fluid Biomarker Laboratory at UCL, and is a key member of the Hong Kong Center for Neurodegenerative Diseases and Visiting Professor in the University of Wisconsin (UW) Department of Medicine, School of Medicine and Public Health, Madison, Wisconsin. His main research focus and clinical interest are in fluid biomarkers for brain diseases, neurodegenerative diseases in particular. He has published more than 2,000 scientific articles and received many awards.
Eric G. Tangalos
Dr. Eric Tangalos is Professor of Medicine at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota. He served as Chair of Primary Care Internal Medicine from 1997 to 2006.
Eric G. Tangalos
Dr. Eric Tangalos is Professor of Medicine at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota. He served as Chair of Primary Care Internal Medicine from 1997 to 2006. Dr. Tangalos received his undergraduate training from the University of Michigan, is a graduate of the Loyola University Stritch School of Medicine in Chicago, and was a resident and fellow in Internal Medicine at Mayo.
He is a past president of AMDA, The Society for Post-Acute and Long-Term Care Medicine, and is a fellow and past governor of the American College of Physicians. He is a past director of the American Geriatrics Society and serves on their Foundation for Health in Aging. Dr. Tangalos served 8 years on the national board of the Alzheimer’s Association and was a member of their executive committee. He also served as Chair of the Omnicare P&T Committee for 20 years.
Dr. Tangalos was Medical Director at the Samaritan Bethany nursing home from 1981 until his retirement from Mayo in 2019. His certification as a medical director is current and will be approved again by the American Board of Post-Acute and Long-Term Care Medicine (ABPLM) in June 2022. He is currently recredentialed by Mayo for continuing service both to the Rochester campus and the Health Care System in Minnesota. Over the past 3 years he has worked face-to-face with patients in Austin and has provided in-basket coverage to Austin, Albert Lea, Faribault, and Owatonna.
Dr. Tangalos has been an investigator with the Mayo Clinic Alzheimer’s Disease Research Center since 1987 and is currently active with the Alzheimer’s Association as course director for a Project ECHO seminar series. Additionally, Dr. Tangalos continues to review NIH SBIR/STTR grant applications while working as a founding member of the American Telemedicine Association.
Dr. Jennifer Gordon was diagnosed with EGPA in 2014 and is the Vasculitis Patient Powered Research Network (VPPRN) Co-Principal Investigator and co-Lead Patient-Partner in the EGPA Registry. During this 30-minute CMEO Snack, Dr. Gordon will join Dr. Michael Wechsler, a national expert in EGPA. They will discuss how EGPA impacts patient quality of life and how clinicians can better detect and manage hidden symptoms of disease. Patient perspectives on delayed diagnosis, disease impact on their daily functioning, treatment options, and chronic steroid use will be included in the discussion.
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12/29/2022
Michael E. Wechsler
Michael E. Wechsler is Professor of Medicine in the Division of Pulmonary, Critical Care and Sleep Medicine at National Jewish Health (NJH) in Denver, Director of the NJH/Cohen Family Asthma Institute, and Associate Vice President for Innovation and Industry Relations at NJH.
Michael E. Wechsler
Michael E. Wechsler is Professor of Medicine in the Division of Pulmonary, Critical Care and Sleep Medicine at National Jewish Health (NJH) in Denver, Director of the NJH/Cohen Family Asthma Institute, and Associate Vice President for Innovation and Industry Relations at NJH. In addition to clinical work in pulmonary and critical care medicine, Professor Wechsler’s research focuses on clinical and translational asthma with emphasis on clinical trials in asthma, novel asthma therapies, bronchial thermoplasty, asthma pharmacogenomics, and management of eosinophilic granulomatosis with polyangiitis (i.e. Churg-Strauss Syndrome). He has led studies focusing on novel biologic agents for asthma and related diseases, including benralizumab, dupilumab, mepolizumab, reslizumab, and tezepelumab. He has published more than 270 peer-reviewed manuscripts relating to asthma, EGPA, and eosinophilic lung diseases. He was a member of the Steering Committee and site Principal Investigator (PI) of the NIH-sponsored Asthma Clinical Research Network (ACRN, now called AsthmaNet), a multicenter asthma clinical trials consortium, and currently serves as the PI of the Denver site of the Precision Intervention in Severe/Exacerbating Asthma (PRECISE) network. A member of the American Society of Clinical Investigation and the Association of American Physicians, he has participated in many different task forces related to the study of eosinophilic lung diseases that were sponsored by the NIH, the FDA, the European Respiratory Society, and the International Eosinophil Society. He is currently Associate Editor of the journal Chest and has served as Associate Editor of the journal Allergy and on the editorial board of the European Journal of Clinical Investigation.
Dr. Wechsler received AB and MMSc degrees from Harvard University in Boston and an MD degree from McGill University in Montreal. He completed medical training at Beth Israel Hospital in Boston, and as part of the Harvard Combined Pulmonary and Critical Care Fellowship Training Program.</br.
Jennifer Gordon
Dr. Gordon was diagnosed with EGPA, a form of ANCA-associated vasculitis, in 2014. She holds a PhD in Pathology and spent nearly 30 years working as an NIH-funded biomedical researcher studying neurological disorders and infectious diseases.
Jennifer Gordon
Dr. Gordon was diagnosed with EGPA, a form of ANCA-associated vasculitis, in 2014. She holds a PhD in Pathology and spent nearly 30 years working as an NIH-funded biomedical researcher studying neurological disorders and infectious diseases, most recently as an Associate Professor in the Department of Neuroscience at Temple University School of Medicine in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. She recently retired from academia and is now Head of Research & Development at Excision BioTherapeutics, a biotech start-up company developing CRISPR-based gene editing for the treatment of HIV and other viral diseases. Jenn is active in the vasculitis community. She is a patient partner in the Vasculitis Patient Powered Research Network (VPPRN) and a member of the VPPRN-VCRC EGPA Registry Joint Steering Committee. She currently hosts the EGPA Caf? Zoom Chat through the Vasculitis Foundation. You can find her blog online at www.vasculitides.com or follow her on Twitter at @vasculitides.
In this CME Outfitters Snack, expert faculty will review data presented at the Alzheimer’s Association International Conference (AAIC) and will focus on established, new, and emerging ATTs as well as a case-based discussion on clinical impacts and applications to provide point-of-care tactics that will have a positive impact on patient outcomes.
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08/09/2023
Nicolas Villain
Nicolas Villain, MD, PhD, is a tenured Associate Professor of Neurology at Sorbonne University, Paris, France and a cognitive and behavioral neurologist at the Institute of Memory and Alzheimer’s Disease, Department of Neurology, Pitié-Salpêtrière Hospital, Paris.
Nicolas Villain
Nicolas Villain, MD, PhD, is a tenured Associate Professor of Neurology at Sorbonne University, Paris, France and a cognitive and behavioral neurologist at the Institute of Memory and Alzheimer’s Disease, Department of Neurology, Pitié-Salpêtrière Hospital, Paris. He trained as an MD and a clinical fellow in Paris in Prof. Bruno Dubois’ group and carried out his PhD with Dr. Gaël Chételat in Caen, France, where he worked on multimodal neuroimaging and disconnection mechanisms in Alzheimer’s disease. He currently leads projects on brain network vulnerability using multimodal neuroimaging and on fluid biomarkers of Alzheimer’s disease in Prof. Kaj Blennow’s new group at the Paris Brain Institute.
Eric G. Tangalos
Dr. Eric Tangalos is Professor of Medicine at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota. He served as Chair of Primary Care Internal Medicine from 1997 to 2006.
Eric G. Tangalos
Dr. Eric Tangalos is Professor of Medicine at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota. He served as Chair of Primary Care Internal Medicine from 1997 to 2006. Dr. Tangalos received his undergraduate training from the University of Michigan, is a graduate of the Loyola University Stritch School of Medicine in Chicago, and was a resident and fellow in Internal Medicine at Mayo.
He is a past president of AMDA, The Society for Post-Acute and Long-Term Care Medicine, and is a fellow and past governor of the American College of Physicians. He is a past director of the American Geriatrics Society and serves on their Foundation for Health in Aging. Dr. Tangalos served 8 years on the national board of the Alzheimer’s Association and was a member of their executive committee. He also served as Chair of the Omnicare P&T Committee for 20 years.
Dr. Tangalos was Medical Director at the Samaritan Bethany nursing home from 1981 until his retirement from Mayo in 2019. His certification as a medical director is current and will be approved again by the American Board of Post-Acute and Long-Term Care Medicine (ABPLM) in June 2022. He is currently recredentialed by Mayo for continuing service both to the Rochester campus and the Health Care System in Minnesota. Over the past 3 years he has worked face-to-face with patients in Austin and has provided in-basket coverage to Austin, Albert Lea, Faribault, and Owatonna.
Dr. Tangalos has been an investigator with the Mayo Clinic Alzheimer’s Disease Research Center since 1987 and is currently active with the Alzheimer’s Association as course director for a Project ECHO seminar series. Additionally, Dr. Tangalos continues to review NIH SBIR/STTR grant applications while working as a founding member of the American Telemedicine Association.
This CMEO Snack will aid clinicians in overcoming these inadequacies by equipping them with a clear picture of what IH is and the poor QoL outcomes it is associated with. Please join expert faculty in a discussion on how to better recognize the significant impact of IH symptoms on QoL.
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07/20/2023
Anne Marie Morse
Dr. Anne Marie Morse is the Director of Child Neurology and Pediatric Sleep Medicine at Geisinger, Janet Weis Children’s Hospital.
Anne Marie Morse
Dr. Anne Marie Morse is the Director of Child Neurology and Pediatric Sleep Medicine at Geisinger, Janet Weis Children’s Hospital. She has significant clinical and research experience and interest in children, adolescents, and adults with sleep wake disorders, particularly central disorders of hypersomnolence. In addition, her research interests extend more broadly to include investigating the relationship between sleep and neurologic and neurodevelopmental disorders. Dr Morse’s commitment to sleep health extends into the community. She has developed a school-based sleep education and surveillance program called Wake Up and Learn. This program was developed to provide education about sleep health and perform school-based sleep screening to improve recognition of pediatric sleep disorders in middle and high school students. It has now expanded to include learners in college, medical school, and medical residency programs with a clinical and health plan delivery, called Sleep to Be Well. Dr. Morse envisions a world where sleep can be acknowledged as the vital sign of health, wellness, and performance that it is designed to be.
Richard K. Bogan
Dr. Bogan is the President of Bogan Sleep Consultants, LLC. He is also Associate Clinical Professor at the University of South Carolina School of Medicine and Associate Clinical Professor at the Medical University of South Carolina in Charleston, SC.
Richard K. Bogan
Dr. Bogan is the President of Bogan Sleep Consultants, LLC. He is also Associate Clinical Professor at the University of South Carolina School of Medicine and Associate Clinical Professor at the Medical University of South Carolina in Charleston, SC.
Dr. Bogan received his bachelor’s degree in chemistry from Wofford College and his MD degree from the Medical University of South Carolina in Charleston. He served his internship and residency, as well as Chief Medical Resident, at the University of Alabama Hospital and Clinics in Birmingham. Thereafter, he completed a fellowship and assistant professorship in the Pulmonary Division of the Department of Medicine at the University of Alabama School of Medicine. He has been certified by the American boards of Sleep Medicine, Internal Medicine, and Pulmonary Diseases.
Dr. Bogan has served as principal investigator on numerous clinical trials in the past and continues to do so now. He has a variety of publications and research interests that focus on topics such as narcolepsy, insomnia, sleep apnea, shift work sleep disorder, restless legs syndrome/periodic limb movement disorder, chronic fatigue/fibromyalgia, and circadian rhythm abnormality.
In this CME Snack, expert faculty will discuss how to better identify the impact of symptoms on QoL and work, school, and/or psychosocial functioning for pediatric and adult patients with narcolepsy.
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07/24/2023
Anne Marie Morse
Dr. Anne Marie Morse is the Director of Child Neurology and Pediatric Sleep Medicine at Geisinger, Janet Weis Children’s Hospital.
Anne Marie Morse
Dr. Anne Marie Morse is the Director of Child Neurology and Pediatric Sleep Medicine at Geisinger, Janet Weis Children’s Hospital. She has significant clinical and research experience and interest in children, adolescents, and adults with sleep wake disorders, particularly central disorders of hypersomnolence. In addition, her research interests extend more broadly to include investigating the relationship between sleep and neurologic and neurodevelopmental disorders. Dr Morse’s commitment to sleep health extends into the community. She has developed a school-based sleep education and surveillance program called Wake Up and Learn. This program was developed to provide education about sleep health and perform school-based sleep screening to improve recognition of pediatric sleep disorders in middle and high school students. It has now expanded to include learners in college, medical school, and medical residency programs with a clinical and health plan delivery, called Sleep to Be Well. Dr. Morse envisions a world where sleep can be acknowledged as the vital sign of health, wellness, and performance that it is designed to be.
Richard K. Bogan
Dr. Bogan is the President of Bogan Sleep Consultants, LLC. He is also Associate Clinical Professor at the University of South Carolina School of Medicine and Associate Clinical Professor at the Medical University of South Carolina in Charleston, SC.
Richard K. Bogan
Dr. Bogan is the President of Bogan Sleep Consultants, LLC. He is also Associate Clinical Professor at the University of South Carolina School of Medicine and Associate Clinical Professor at the Medical University of South Carolina in Charleston, SC.
Dr. Bogan received his bachelor’s degree in chemistry from Wofford College and his MD degree from the Medical University of South Carolina in Charleston. He served his internship and residency, as well as Chief Medical Resident, at the University of Alabama Hospital and Clinics in Birmingham. Thereafter, he completed a fellowship and assistant professorship in the Pulmonary Division of the Department of Medicine at the University of Alabama School of Medicine. He has been certified by the American boards of Sleep Medicine, Internal Medicine, and Pulmonary Diseases.
Dr. Bogan has served as principal investigator on numerous clinical trials in the past and continues to do so now. He has a variety of publications and research interests that focus on topics such as narcolepsy, insomnia, sleep apnea, shift work sleep disorder, restless legs syndrome/periodic limb movement disorder, chronic fatigue/fibromyalgia, and circadian rhythm abnormality.
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