Modifiable Risk Factors for Improving Brain Health

Ewald W. Busse Memorial Lecture Kristine Yaffe, MD, is the Scola Endowed Chair and Vice Chair, Professor of Psychiatry, Neurology, and Epidemiology, and Director of the Center for Population Brain Health at the University of California, San Francisco. In her research, clinical work, and mentoring, she has directed her efforts towards improving the care of patients with Alzheimer's and other dementias. Dr. Yaffe is internationally recognized in the epidemiology of dementia and cognitive aging. She serves as PI of NIH, Department of Defense, Veterans Administration, and foundation grants and is the foremost leader in identifying modifiable risk factors for dementia. She was the first to determine that potentially 30% of dementia risk is preventable. She pioneered early investigations on the roles of estrogen, physical activity, and cardiovascular factors in dementia risk. Her research group has led work on the connections between cognitive aging and sleep disorders, traumatic brain injury and life course exposures. She has almost 600 peer-reviewed articles to improving population brain health (H-index=144), her transformative research bridges neurology, psychiatry, and epidemiology and formed the cornerstone for dementia prevention trials worldwide. Dr. Yaffe received the Potamkin Prize for Alzheimer's Research in 2017 and was elected to the National Academy of Medicine in 2019. Like to join: https://duke.zoom.us/j/92393128099