Meeting on Frontotemporal Dementia Offered at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine 5/5/2004
From: Karen Kreeger, 215-349-5658 or Karen.kreeger@uphs.upenn.edu PHILADELPHIA, May 5 -- The University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine will host a conference on the latest research and clinical advances on frontotemporal dementia (FTD). "Frontotemporal Dementia: Clinical, Genetic, Biomarker, and Pathological Perspectives" takes place on Thursday and Friday, July 15 and 16 at the Meyerson B1 Auditorium on the campus of the University of Pennsylvania. There are no registration fees, but registration is strictly required by June 1. To reserve attendance at the meeting please call, 215-662-4708. To view the meeting agenda and register online go to: http://www.uphs.upenn.edu/cndr/retreat.html. International experts will discuss state-of-the-art clinical and research approaches to FTD in this two-day satellite meeting to be held just prior to the 9th International Conference on Alzheimer's Disease and Related Disorders. Physicians, scientists, and caregivers are welcome to register without cost. In addition, caregivers can go to an adjacent classroom after each presentation to talk with an expert. To culminate the event, Don Drake, a former medical writer at the Philadelphia Inquirer, will give a reading on July 15 from his play Gorked, a romantic comedy about an Alzheimer's patient who is joyously reliving the earlier years of his life. The organizing committee includes Penn researchers, Murray Grossman, MD; Virginia M-Y Lee, PhD; and John Q. Trojanowski, MD, PhD along with John Van Swieten, MD, Erasmus University, the Netherlands; and Bruce Miller, MD, Memory and Aging Center, University of California, San Francisco According to the Association for Frontotemporal Dementias, FTD is a degenerative condition of the front part of the brain, which affects the frontal and anterior temporal lobes. These brain regions control reasoning, personality, movement, speech, social graces, language, and some aspects of memory. | |