Guest Speakers
"Alzheimer's disease - Latest Advances in Care and Research."
Todd Golde, M.D., Ph.D
Dr. Golde is a Professor of Neuroscience at the University of Florida and the Director of UF's Center for Translational Research in Neurodegenerative Disease.
Dr. Golde received his Ph.D (1991) and M.D. (1994) from Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland. He completed his residency in the Department of Pathology
and Laboratory Medicine at University of Pennsylvania Hospital in 1996, where he served as Chief Resident. He was an Assistant Professor of Pathology at University
of Pennsylvania from 1996 - 1997. He then moved to Mayo Clinic, Florida, where he was an Assistant Professor of Pharmacology from 1997 - 2001, an Associate Professor
of Neuroscience from 2001 - 2005, and a Professor of Neuroscience from 2005 - 2009. He was also chair of Mayo Clinic's internationally recognized Department of
Neuroscience from 2003 - 2009.
Dr. Golde has published more than 130 manuscripts that have been cited over 1,100 times. Nine of these have been cited as milestone papers by his peers. Dr. Golde's
honors include a Paul Beeson Physician Faculty Scholar Award in Aging Research, an Ellison Medical Foundation New Scholar Award, a Zenith Award from the Alzheimer's
Association, the Coins for Alzheimer's Research Trust from the Rotary Clubs of the Southeastern United States, the Ellison Medical Foundation Senior Scholar Award
and the MetLife Foundation Award Medical Research.
Kenneth Heilman, M.D.
Dr. Heilman received his M.D. from the University of Virginia in 1963 and subsequently spent two years training in internal medicine at Cornell University Medical Center
(Bellevue). During the Vietnam War he joined the Air Force and was Chief of Medicine at NATO Hospital, Izmir, Turkey. When he was discharged from the service, he took a
neurology residency and fellowship at the Harvard Neurological Unit. After completing his residency and fellowship, he joined the faculty a the University of Florida in
1970. He received an endowed chair in 1990, making him the first James E. Rooks, Jr. Professor of Neurology. In 1998, he was in the first group of the faculty to be awarded
the title of Distinguished Professor. He is also a professor of Clinical and Health Psychology.
Dr. Heilman is an active clinician who is Director of the Memory and Cognitive Disorder Clinics. In addition to teaching medical and psychology students, he is active in
resident education and has been director of a post doctoral program that has possibly trained more fellows in the field of dementia than any other program in the world
— truly a leader in training the next generation of physicians and memory disorder specialists. Much of his most recent work focuses on the blunted emotional reactions
of patients with Alzheimer's.