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A graphic of Dr. Art Walaszek presenting at the Fall Community Conversation.
On Tuesday, September 10, from 4:30 to 7:30 p.m. the Wisconsin Alzheimer’s Disease Research Center (ADRC) will present the 2024 Fall Community Conversation: The Impact of Social Connections on Brain Health. Free and open to all, the event will provide information to help people stay connected, improve brain health, support memory and live healthier, happier lives.
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Community-Clinical Linkages to Promote Brain Health graphic with white text on a purple background
Maria Mora Pinzon, MD, MS, helped develop a newly released toolkit with support from the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) and others.
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Aerial image of University Hospital in Madison, WI
The article includes interviews with several scientists and faculty members from UW–Madison, including Cynthia Carlsson, MD, MS, and Nathaniel Chin, MD.
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On the left is the headline, "IEA Innovation Fund awards $450,000 in first funding cycle across five recipients". Next to this headline is a drawing of a head with interconnected lines and nodes coming from it against a dark background, like stars in the sky.
The IEA Innovation Fund launched in 2023 to advance promising new ideas in UW–Madison Alzheimer’s Disease (AD) research and programming, enhance resources available to researchers and respond to innovative and emerging needs of this area of medicine.
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Group of people exercising at the UW South Madison Partnership office
The UW South Madison Partnership (UWSMP) is a community hub in the heart of Madison's south side that fosters collaboration between dozens of local groups, University of Wisconsin programs and other organizations. Annik Dupaty, MA, highlights the partnership's importance in making resources available to the community.
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Doctor at a desk going over notes with a patient
Nathaniel Chin, MD, and Claire M. Erickson, PhD, MPA, co-wrote a guest essay recently featured in The New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM) asserting that primary care currently lacks the training and resources for biomarker testing and that more support is needed through infrastructural changes.