August 2018 Lecture by Kristine Yaffe, MD
This is the fourth lecture in a six part series offered by the UC Davis Alzheimer's Disease Center for the Sacramento Metropolitan Area and communities throughout Northern California. The theme of this year’s series is healthy brain aging and prevention. This is a distinguished lecture in the series.
Dr. Yaffe is the Scola Endowed Chair and Vice Chair and Professor Psychiatry, Neurology and Epidemiology at the University of California, San Francisco. She is also the Chief of Neuropsychiatry and Director of the Memory Evaluation Clinic at the San Francisco Veterans Affairs Medical Center.
Dr. Yaffe’s research focuses on the epidemiology of cognitive aging. As principle investigator of multiple grants from the National Institutes of Health, the Department of Defense and several foundations, she is a leading expert in modifiable risk factors of dementia, having published over 450 peer reviewed articles. Her talk will highlight how changes in sleep quality may increase the risk of developing dementia as we age. She will also discuss possible strategies to improve sleep and maintain cognitive health.
Dr. Yaffe has been recognized by Thomas Reuters as one of the World’s Most Influential Scientific Minds and has received several awards for her distinguished, scholarly work, including the American Association for Geriatric Psychiatry Distinguished Scientist Award and the American Academy of Neurology’s Potamkin Prize, considered the Nobel Prize of Alzheimer’s research.