SMGH Foundation to host Lunch & Learn on the topic of Alzheimer’s featuring Geriatrician and Professor, Dr. Michael Borrie
The SMGH Foundation is pleased to present the fall edition of its Donor Conversation Series on Thursday November 7th, 2024 at Willow Tree Golf Club’s banquet hall from 11:30 am to 1:30 pm. The topic to be discussed is, ‘Alzheimer’s – from diagnosis to treatment and care’.
The keynote speaker will be Dr. Michael Borrie, acclaimed Geriatrician of the Parkwood Institute and a Professor in the Department of Medicine, Division of Geriatric Medicine at Western University. Dr. Borrie is also the Medical Director for the Aging Brain and Memory Clinic, an investigator with the Cognitive Clinical Research Group (CCRG), and Past President and current executive member of the Consortium for Canadian Centres for Clinical Cognitive Research (C5R).Since 1995 the CCRG has been a leading Canadian research site conducting randomized controlled trials of new potential treatments for Subjective Cognitive Decline, Mild Cognitive Impairment and Alzheimer’s disease. There will also be information available about outreach programs in the Strathroy-Caradoc community for caregivers and families supporting patients who have been diagnosed with Alzheimer’s
