AAGP Annual Meeting: “Reimagining Geriatric Mental Health: Innovations to Promote the Well-Being of Caregivers and Patients”

Date / Time:  March 15-18, 2024, Atlanta, GA 

Registration:   https://www.aagponline.org/education-events/annual-meeting/annual-meeting-registration/ This conference is in-person only. 

The 2024 AAGP Annual Meeting: “Reimagining Geriatric Mental Health: Innovations to Promote the Well-Being of Caregivers and Patients.”  The 2024 Annual Meeting theme in a post-pandemic world calls for innovation that can reduce stress and trauma and promote brain health and well-being in millions of aging adults and caregivers in the United States and around the world. We will capitalize on transformative initiatives in education, clinical practice, and research to promote brain health awareness among healthcare providers and the American families that lay the foundation of healthy and positive aging across all strata of our society and the world.   For more information about the conference, please visit: https://www.aagponline.org/education-events/annual-meeting/    

Presenters: 

Session Chair: Dr. Jennifer Goldman, MD, MS, Adjunct Professor, Barrow Neurological Institute and Principal, JPG Enterprises LLC, Medical Division, Chicago, IL 

Dr. Goldman is a movement disorders neurologist with specialty certification in behavioral neurology and neuropsychiatry. Her clinical and research work have focused on defining clinical features and operationalization of diagnostic criteria for dementia, mild cognitive impairment and psychosis for Lewy body disorders; identifying neurobiological mechanisms via neuroimaging biomarkers; and improving pharmacological and non-pharmacological treatments and care models to optimize functional outcomes. Dr. Goldman is currently the Chair of the Lewy Body Dementia Association’s (LBDA) Scientific Advisory Council and the LBDA Industry Council and over the years, has directed two LBDA Research Centers of Excellence. She is also the Secretary-Elect for the International Parkinson and Movement Disorder Society. Dr. Goldman previously served as the first-ever Section Chief of Parkinson’s Disease and Movement Disorders at Shirley Ryan AbilityLab and as Professor at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine and Rush University in Chicago, IL. Her research has been supported by the National Institutes of Health, the Michael J. Fox Foundation, the Parkinson’s Foundation, and other sponsors, and Dr. Goldman has published over 100 scholarly articles related to Lewy body disorders. 

Chiadi Uchendu Onyike, MBBS, MHS, Associate Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, The Johns Hopkins University  

Dr. Onyike is a specialist in neuropsychiatry. He focuses on the diagnosis and care of neurodegenerative diseases that develop in midlife or earlier. These include frontotemporal dementias, young-onset Alzheimer diseases, prion diseases, leukodystrophy and other atypical conditions that cause cognitive and behavioral impairments and dementia. He is also engaged in research focused on the epidemiology and treatment of frontotemporal dementias, Alzheimer disease, Lewy body disease, spinocerebellar ataxias, and other neurodegenerative disorders. He was formerly co-director of the LBDA Research Center of Excellence at Johns Hopkins University. 

Dr. Onyike has advised national and international research agencies including the NIH, FDA, MRC-UK, and others. He has served on NIA/NINDS Alzheimer’s Disease and Related Dementias workshop committees. He is the Chair-Elect of the Medical Advisory Council of the Association for Frontotemporal Degeneration, and a member of the Scientific Advisory Boards of the FTD Disorders Registry and the Tau Consortium. He also serves on the Lewy Body Dementia Association’s clinical workgroups, and on the Alzheimer’s Association Best Clinical Practices Guidelines Work Group. He is a founding member of the International Society for Frontotemporal Dementias, and a member of its Executive Committee.  

Dr. Parichita Choudhury, M.D., MSc, FRCPC, Assistant Professor at the University of Arizona, Cognitive Neurologist at Banner Sun Health Research Institute 

Dr. Choudhury is a cognitive neurologist, assistant professor at University of Arizona and practices at Banner Sun Health Research Institute. She completed her medical school and residency in Canada followed by clinical fellowship in Behavioral Neurology at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota. In addition to providing clinical care, she is involved in multiple clinical trials in Alzheimer’s disease and related disorders. She also conducts research in the dementia care and areas of interest include early diagnosis of dementia, dementia with Lewy bodies and sex differences in dementia care.  

For more information, please visit:  https://www.aagponline.org/education-events/annual-meeting/