Dec. 8 Public Health Forum: Defining the Alzheimer's Disease Phenotype
Join Deborah Blacker, MD, ScD, as she presents the talk “Defining the Alzheimer’s Disease Phenotype” at the BUSPH Public Health Forum on Wednesday, Dec. 8 at noon in L-112.
Blacker is the director of the Gerontology Research Unit at MGH and is an associate professor of epidemiology at Harvard School of Public Health. Her primary work concerns the clinical and genetic epidemiology of Alzheimer’s disease (AD). She is extensively involved in efforts to locate genes that contribute to AD risk, including several different projects to collect, evaluate, and follow clinical samples for the study of AD genetics.
The BUSPH Public Health Forum is a regular series presented by the School of Public Health. It is free and open to the public.
BUSPH Public Health Forum
“Defining the Alzheimer’s Disease Phenotype”
Presented by Deborah Blacker, MD, ScD, director of the Gerontology Research Unit at MGH and associate professor in the Department of Epidemiology, Harvard School of Public Health
Date: December 8, 2010
Time: 12 – 1 p.m.
Location: BUSM Instructional Building, Room L-112
Contact: Diane Beliveau