2022 Markesbery Community Symposium

We are pleased to announce the twelfth annual Markesbery Symposium for 2022, named in honor and memory of the late William R. Markesbery, MD, founding Director of the Sanders-Brown Center on Aging and Alzheimer's Disease Research Center. Dr. Markesbery's legacy of groundbreaking research has formed the bedrock for our quest to understand and treat Alzheimer's disease and to improve the quality of life of the older adults.

2022 Markesbery Community Symposium Schedule
Saturday, November 19, 2022
Central Bank Center and via Zoom

8:00 am

• Registration and Continental Breakfast

9:00 am

• Welcome
  Linda Van Eldik, PhD, Director, Sanders-Brown Center on Aging and Alzheimer’s Disease Research Center, University of Kentucky 

9:15 am

• First Keynote Speaker

  Can We Prevent Alzheimer’s?
  Josh Grill, PhD, Director, UC Irvine ADRC and Director, UCI MIND; Professor, Psychiatry and Human Behavior

9:45 am

• Second Keynote Speaker

  The Inconvenient Truth About Football
  Ann McKee, MD, Director of the Neuropathology Core, BU-ADRC, Professor of Neurology and Pathology, Boston University.

10:15 am

• Coffee Break

10:30 am

• Lauren Whitehurst, PhD, Assistant Professor of Psychology, University of Kentucky

10:45 am

• Elizabeth Rhodus, PhD, Assistant Professor of Behavioral Sciences and Sanders-Brown Center on Aging, University of Kentucky

11:00 am

• Panel Discussion

  Moderator, Donna M Wilcock PhD, Associate Director, Sanders-Brown Center on Aging, Professor of Physiology
  
  Gregory Jicha, MD, PhD, Clinical Core Director, University of Kentucky ADRC; Professor of Neurology

  Ann McKee, MD, Director of the Neuropathology Core, BU-ADRC, Professor of Neurology and Pathology, Boston University

  Elizabeth Rhodus, PhD, Assistant Professor of Behavioral Sciences and Sanders-Brown Center on Aging, University of Kentucky
  
  Lauren Whitehurst, PhD, Assistant Professor of Psychology, University of Kentucky

11:45 am

• Closing Remarks – Linda Van Eldik, PhD