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Eat, Sleep and Be Merry: What We Know About Brain Health

On Monday, October 22, 2018, CaringKind, NYC’s leading expert on Alzheimer’s and dementia caregiving, will host its 31st Annual Research Meeting, “Eat, Sleep and Be Merry: What We Know About Brain Health.” Moderated by CBS 2 Medical Reporter Dr. Max Gomez, a panel of distinguished medical and scientific experts will explore new and surprising findings about maintaining brain health and possibly reducing the risk for Alzheimer’s disease and other dementias through sleep, diet, exercise, stress reduction and other lifestyle factors. The meeting will be followed by a book signing.

Jed A. Levine, newly appointed President and CEO of CaringKind, will begin the program with opening remarks and will introduce the expert panelists.

The panelists will include:

Lisa Mosconi, Ph.D., INHC, is the Associate Director of the Alzheimer’s Prevention Clinic at Weill Cornell Medical College (WCMC)/New York-Presbyterian Hospital, where she is Associate Professor of Neuroscience in Neurology She also is an adjunct faculty member at the Department of Psychiatry at NYU School of Medicine, and at the Department of Nutrition at NYU Steinhardt. During the reception Dr. Mosconi will be available to sign her new book, “Brain Food: The Surprising Science of Eating for Cognitive Power” (Avery/Penguin Random House).

Andrew W. Varga, MD, Ph.D., is an Assistant Professor in the Mount Sinai Integrative Sleep Center in the Department of Medicine at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai. He has a PhD in neuroscience from Baylor College of Medicine and an MD from New York Medical College. Dr. Varga has a longstanding interest in mechanisms of learning and memory, the role of sleep in cognition, and the effects of sleep disorders and sleep loss on cognitive function and risk for Alzheimer’s and related neurodegenerative diseases.

CaringKind was formerly known as the Alzheimer’s Association, New York City Chapter.

5:30 p.m. – Check-in
6:00 p.m. – Program
7:30 p.m. – Book Signing

TheTimesCenter
242 West 41st Street
(Between 7th and 8th Avenues in Manhattan)

To R.S.V.P. and receive more information please visit https://www.caringkindnyc.org/annualmeeting/ or call CaringKind’s 24-hour helpline: (646) 744-2900











When: Mon., Oct. 22, 2018 at 5:30 pm - 7:30 pm

On Monday, October 22, 2018, CaringKind, NYC’s leading expert on Alzheimer’s and dementia caregiving, will host its 31st Annual Research Meeting, “Eat, Sleep and Be Merry: What We Know About Brain Health.” Moderated by CBS 2 Medical Reporter Dr. Max Gomez, a panel of distinguished medical and scientific experts will explore new and surprising findings about maintaining brain health and possibly reducing the risk for Alzheimer’s disease and other dementias through sleep, diet, exercise, stress reduction and other lifestyle factors. The meeting will be followed by a book signing.

Jed A. Levine, newly appointed President and CEO of CaringKind, will begin the program with opening remarks and will introduce the expert panelists.

The panelists will include:

Lisa Mosconi, Ph.D., INHC, is the Associate Director of the Alzheimer’s Prevention Clinic at Weill Cornell Medical College (WCMC)/New York-Presbyterian Hospital, where she is Associate Professor of Neuroscience in Neurology She also is an adjunct faculty member at the Department of Psychiatry at NYU School of Medicine, and at the Department of Nutrition at NYU Steinhardt. During the reception Dr. Mosconi will be available to sign her new book, “Brain Food: The Surprising Science of Eating for Cognitive Power” (Avery/Penguin Random House).

Andrew W. Varga, MD, Ph.D., is an Assistant Professor in the Mount Sinai Integrative Sleep Center in the Department of Medicine at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai. He has a PhD in neuroscience from Baylor College of Medicine and an MD from New York Medical College. Dr. Varga has a longstanding interest in mechanisms of learning and memory, the role of sleep in cognition, and the effects of sleep disorders and sleep loss on cognitive function and risk for Alzheimer’s and related neurodegenerative diseases.

CaringKind was formerly known as the Alzheimer’s Association, New York City Chapter.

5:30 p.m. – Check-in
6:00 p.m. – Program
7:30 p.m. – Book Signing

TheTimesCenter
242 West 41st Street
(Between 7th and 8th Avenues in Manhattan)

To R.S.V.P. and receive more information please visit https://www.caringkindnyc.org/annualmeeting/ or call CaringKind’s 24-hour helpline: (646) 744-2900

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