Discovery, Diagnostics and Management:
A new era for Dementia
PROGRAM OVERVIEW
Australian Eastern Standard Time​
The draft program is correct at the time of publication but subject to change without notice.
Monday 29 May 2023
Continuing Education Program
10:30am - 4:00pm
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Welcome | Professor Christopher Rowe
Moderator | Professor Michael Breakspear
Special Interest Groups
11:00am - 1:00pm
1:30pm - 2:45pm
2:45pm - 4:30pm
Forum Welcome and Keynote 1
4:30pm - 5:50pm
Welcome Address and Keynote 1 in honour of the late Mr Baillieu Myer AC
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Keynote: Detecting Alzheimer’s disease pathology in blood: exploring the meaning of change, applications for therapeutic trials and clinical implementation | Dr Nicholas Ashton
Chair: Professor Christopher Rowe
6:00pm - 7:30pm
Welcome Reception (in-person only)
Tuesday 30 May 2023
9:00am - 10:40am
Keynote 2: Perspective from Alzheimer's Association: Need for Real World Evidence in New Era of Treatment, Research & Care | Dr Heather Snyder
Chair: Professor Christopher Rowe
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Keynote 3: Genetic epidemiology in Alzheimer’s disease and the use of genetic risk prediction | Associate Professor Michelle Lupton
Chair: Professor Simon Laws
11:20am - 12:20pm
SYMPOSIA - Prevention and Lifestyle
SYMPOSIA - Post Diagnostic Care
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The ADNeT Registry: First 5 years, and into the Future | Dr Stephanie Ward, Senior Research Fellow, Centre for Healthy Brain Ageing, UNSW
2:30pm - 3:30pm
Panel Discussion
2:30pm - 6:00pm
Poster Presentations
Keynote 4: Maintain Your Brain: an online RCT to prevent cognitive decline in 55-77 year
olds | Professor Henry Brodaty
Chair: Associate Professor Tuan Nguyen
The Great Debate
6:00pm - 8:00pm
Networking Reception (in-person only)
12:40am - 1:20pm
Wednesday 31 May 2023
9:00am - 10:40am
Keynote 5: What can we learn from national clinical routine dementia care? | Professor Maria Eriksdotter
Chair: Dr Stephanie Ward
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Keynote 6: Frontotemporal Dementia | Professor Peter Nestor
Chair: Associate Professor Scott Ayton
11:10am - 12:10pm
SYMPOSIA - Emerging Disease Modifying Therapies
12:20pm - 1:20pm
SYMPOSIA - Non-Amyloid Targets
2:10pm - 5:40pm
Keynote 7: Unlocking the secrets of sleep for optimising brain health: mechanisms, treatments and translation | Professor Sharon Naismith
Chair: Associate Professor Yen Ying Lim
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Keynote 8: Increasing neuronal resistance by targeting autophagy to counter
neurodegeneration | Professor Christian Behl
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Keynote 9: Medications and dementia: current challenges and future directions | Dr Edwin Tan
Chair: Professor Christopher Rowe
2:10pm - 5:40pm
10 January 2023
10 February 2023
29 May 2023
29-31 May 2023
10 November 2022
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