Events

Gather your friends and family and register for the 5th annual Remember Me Red Run, a 5K run organized by Bailey’s Run Vineyard in beautiful New Glarus, WI. Funds raised will benefit Alzheimer’s disease research programs at UW–Madison.

Mark your calendar for Alzheimer's Disease & Related Dementias Research Day 2023! This event will highlight a diverse array of Alzheimer's Disease and Related Dementia presenters and topics.

We remember and celebrate the vast contributions of Dr. Solomon Carter Fuller to the field of Alzheimer’s disease. This year, the Wisconsin Alzheimer’s Disease Research Center will honor Dr. Fuller at the Solomon Carter Fuller Brain Health Celebration, which raises awareness of the disease in the African American community.

Designed to help people across Wisconsin live and cope with an MCI diagnosis. Join Nathaniel Chin, MD, and Bonnie Nuttkinson, MS, from the Wisconsin Alzheimer’s Disease Research Center, along with Jennifer McAlister, BA, from the Alzheimer's Association Wisconsin Chapter, and Kimberly Mueller, PhD, CCC-SLP, to learn more about Mild Cognitive Impairment (MCI). The program will end with a Q&A session. Free and open to all. Register to attend each program in person throughout the year at one of three locations across Wisconsin in Brown, Dodge or Rock counties. Or, register to attend programs for free online via Zoom.

Register to join the Mind Readers book club for an illuminating look into the book Why We Sleep by Matthew Walker, PhD. Joining us will be University of Wisconsin–Madison researchers and brain health experts Steven Barczi, MD, and Barbara Bendlin, PhD. Nathaniel Chin, MD, will moderate the discussion.

Join Nathaniel Chin, MD, and Bonnie Nuttkinson, MS, from the Wisconsin Alzheimer’s Disease Research Center and Jennifer McAlister, BA, from the Alzheimer's Association Wisconsin Chapter to learn more about Mild Cognitive Impairment (MCI).

This free community educational event will offer news about cutting-edge research in Alzheimer's disease and provide information to help people improve brain health and live healthier lives. The Fall Community Lecture will feature presentations by University of Wisconsin faculty, focusing on blood-based biomarkers and risk and protective factors of Alzheimer’s disease. The event will begin with a healthy aging resource fair and refreshments and will end with a Q & A panel with the evening's presenters.

Cynthia Carlsson, MD, MS, will help us understand how clinical trials work and the phases a drug must go through before it is approved for use.

The Wisconsin ADRC is hosting a guest lecture on August 23, from Noon-1 p.m., HSLC 1345 and Livestream. The guest lecture will feature an in-person presentation entitled, "Blood biomarkers for Alzheimer’s disease: Update, progress, and unanswered questions," by Thomas Karikari, PhD, assistant professor at the University of Gothenburg, Sweden, and the University of Pittsburgh.

This lecture is for trainees, students, staff, faculty or clinicans. All clinicians, faculty, staff, students, and trainees interested in dementia...

All are invited to join the Mind Readers book club along with host Nathaniel Chin, MD, and guest authors Cindy Weinstein, PhD, and Bruce L. Miller, MD, for a discussion about their book, 'Finding the Right Words: A Story of Literature, Grief, and the Brain.'