Preparing for the Dementia Tsunami: Join the Conversation

TEDMED, a community of people who are passionate about imagining the future of health and medicine, teamed up with BrigthtFocus Foundation and others to present Preparing for the Dementia Tsunami. It is one of TEDMED's 20 Great Challenges of Health and Medicine.

• BrightFocus' Vice President of Scientific Affairs, Dr. Guy Eakin, is one of six experts who recently responded directly to a series of crowd-sourced questions and comments that were submitted via the TEDMED website.
• View a moderated discussion with multi-disciplinary thought leaders who shared their views and responded to questions on Preparing for the Dementia Tsunami.
  Participants: Guy Eakin, PhD, Meryl Comer, George Vradenburg, Sharon A. Brangman, MD, Jeffrey L. Cummings, MD, ScD, William Thies, PhD,

The TEDMED Challenge Team

The Challenge Team Members are leaders in their fields and reflect multidisciplinary, passionate, and thoughtful perspectives for the Challenge they represent.

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