Think Science live Q&A to explore dementia in South Texas – UT Health San Antonio

Texas Public Radio will partner with UT Health San Antonio to serve the community at the next Think Science live program, sharing the latest information about the connections between brain and body health and new developments in the fight against dementia and Alzheimers disease. The event features presentations by experts from UT Health San Antonio and an opportunity for audience members to ask questions of researchers to learn more about how to stay mentally agile and fit throughout life. Think Science will be at 7 p.m. June 7 at the UT Health San Antonio Long Campus, 7703 Floyd Curl Dr. Doors will open at 6:30 p.m.

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Leading this presentation will be the founding director of UT Health San Antonios Glenn Biggs Institute for Alzheimers and Neurodegenerative Diseases, Sudha Seshadri, MD, who also serves as the director of the National Institute on Aging (NIA)-designated South Texas Alzheimers Disease Research Center, the only such NIA-designated center in Texas.

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Sudha Seshadri, MD, completed her MBBS from the Christian Medical College, Madras University, and her MD in internal medicine and DM in neurology from the All India Institute of Medical Sciences in New Delhi. Additionally, she completed a residency in neurology at the Boston University School of Medicine and a fellowship in the neurobiology of aging and Alzheimers disease at the University of Massachusetts Medical Center. She previously worked as assistant professor of neurology at the All India Institute of Medical Sciences and professor of neurology and attending neurologist at the Boston University School of Medicine.

As founding director of the Glenn Biggs Institute for Alzheimers and Neurodegenerative Diseases, Seshadri oversees, integrates and coordinates all activities of the Biggs Institute, which will share space in a new Center for Brain Health building with UT Health San Antonios Department of Neurology. The neurology department, offering care and research of Parkinsons disease, ALS and other disorders, is part of the Joe R. and Teresa Lozano School of Medicine.

Seshadri is a recognized thought leader in Alzheimers disease, having recently co-authored position papers disseminated by the National Academy of Sciences onPreventing Cognitive Decline and Dementia: A Way Forward, and by the American Heart Association onDefining Optimal Brain Health in Adults. She has lectured extensively, nationally and internationally, on Alzheimers disease, dementia and the genetics of stroke and vascular brain injury.

Claudia Satizabal, PhD, is an epidemiologist currently working as an assistant professor at the Biggs Institute at UT Health San Antonio, where she leads the Population Neuroscience Core. Satizabals research focuses on lifestyle and genetic factors contributing to healthy brain aging versus those leading to dementia. In her current work, she is investigating markers to identify people at risk of dementia before irreversible damage, the role of the gut microbiome on Alzheimers disease, and the continuation of a local cohort study (the San Antonio Heart and Mind Study, or SAHMS) to better understand brain aging in the community. She is also actively involved in national and international collaborations to advance dementia research.

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Think Science live Q&A to explore dementia in South Texas - UT Health San Antonio