Coach Matthew Mitchell to Headline Sanders-Brown Center on Aging Dinner

University of Kentucky women's basketball coach Matthew Mitchell will headline the University of Kentucky Sanders-Brown Center on Aging Foundation Dinner celebrating great minds on April 23. The event, presented and sponsored by Alltech, will be held at the Lexington Center in downtown Lexington, with more than 700 people expected to attend. Each year, the dinner hosts a guest speaker who is either an example of successful aging or who has a personal connection to Alzheimer’s and age-related diseases. Previous guest speakers have included such well-known figures as Captain Chesley B. "Sully" Sullenberger, Barbara Bush, Colin Powell, John Glenn, Bob Dole, Willard Scott, Lauren Bacall, Andy Rooney, Hugh Downs, Newt Gingrich, Ed McMahon, Dr. Pearse Lyons and James W. Host. Coach, athlete and inspirational speaker, Coach Mitchell watched as his mentor, friend, and legendary University of Tennesssee women’s basketball coach Pat Summit was diagnosed with early onset dementia, Alzheimer's type at the age of 59. To honor her, the Mitchell Family Foundation joined the fight against Alzheimer’s by donating $50,000 in the last two years. The dinner will fund internationally recognized ongoing research at the Sanders-Brown Center on Aging, where researchers are engaged in the battle against Alzheimer's disease and other age-related illnesses. Individual tickets to the dinner are $175 ($200 at the door), with proceeds benefiting SBCoA. Corporate and individual table sponsorships are available starting at $1,500. For more information or to purchase tickets, go to: http://www.uky.edu/coa, or contact the SBCoA Foundation at (859) 323-5374 or lisa.greer@uky.edu. About the Sanders-Brown Center on Aging: The UK Sanders-Brown Center on Aging has been conducting research on Alzheimer’s disease, stroke and other aging-related concerns for more than 30 years. Through a gift from the Eleanor and John Y. Brown Jr. Foundation and a matching grant from the Commonwealth of Kentucky, the Sanders-Brown Center on Aging opened in 1979 and is one of 10 original National Institutes of Health-funded Alzheimer’s Disease Research Centers. Today, the center is an internationally prestigious research center. About the Foundation The Board of Directors are committed to supporting the efforts to slow down and eventually find a cure for the diseases of the elderly. Foundation board members from around Kentucky personally support the center and serve as its ambassadors, cultivating relationships and partnerships to benefit the center’s important work. In its lifetime, this organization has made considerable progress in obtaining support from corporations, foundation and individuals to support endowments, research and efforts to improve the health of elderly in Kentucky, through raising funds, increasing awareness and building external relationships at local, state and national levels.