Living Well with Memory Loss | Presented by Thomas Grabowski, MD (Recording available here)

As our society ages, more people are living with memory loss and dementia, and there is a need to transform medicine for Alzheimer’s disease and related disorders. In order to really do this, we must reframe the way we think about the disease. We and our partners have realized the importance of educating our patients, their families, and our community to understand the entire course of Alzheimer’s disease, including its presymptomatic and mild cognitive impairment stages, and the importance of strengths-based programs for individuals with memory loss. We have also tried to model the inclusion of people with memory loss in our programs, especially in The Memory Hub, our community center for a dementia-friendly community, and the venue for this lecture. These approaches will, paradoxically, become even more important as disease-modifying treatment approaches emerge for Alzheimer’s disease.

10/26/2023

Thomas Grabowski, MD, is the Director of the UW Alzheimer’s Disease Research Center (ADRC). He oversees a multi-disciplinary effort to further a precision medicine approach to Alzheimer’s disease. This work aims to better define key steps in the pathological process and thereby identify new therapeutic targets that will help people with different variants of this disease. Dr. Grabowski is the Imaging and Biomarker Core Leader, working with Co-Leader, Dr. Christine MacDonald, PhD.

Read Dr. Grabowski’s full bio here.

Planetary Health: Learning from Indigenous Wisdom (watch video)

Hon. Leonard Forsman, M.S., (Suquamish) grew up in Suquamish on the Port Madison Indian Reservation and lives there today with his family. He has been Tribal Chairman for the Suquamish Tribe since 2005. Mr. Forsman is President of the Affiliated Tribes of Northwest Indians, Northwest Regional Vice President of the National Congress of American Indians and currently serves on multiple tribal, intertribal, and intergovernmental boards and commissions. President Obama appointed Mr. Forsman to the Advisory Council on Historic Preservation as the Native American Member in 2013 and Vice-Chair in 2016. Governor Inslee recently named him to the Board of Regents for the University of Washington. Mr. Forsman has a Master’s Degree in Historic Preservation from Goucher College where he studied the relevance of the National Register of Historic Places to tribal cultural values systems.

5th annual Cha Chi Ming Lecture, 10/27/2022

Cooking Up Health: Recipes for Reducing Inflammation

RECORDING

Recipe

Art Therapy: Creative Expression in Holistic Care

Optimal Brain Performance: Fight Dementia (10/21/21 video)

Art therapy has been well established as an effective method for the treatment of symptoms of vicarious trauma. 

4th annual Cha Chi Ming Lecture, 11/21/2021 (virtual)
Presenter: Beth Donahue, PhD

Learn how to optimize your brain performance and become a foot soldier in the fight against dementia. Memory loss is not an inevitable part of aging, 10/21/21 (virtual).
Presenter: Dr. Emily Yen Wong

Panel discussion on clinical practice during COVID-19. Learn how these providers have  created caring and connection with themselves and others in the midst of a pandemic, 10/29/2020 (virtual).

• Laura Yon, Yoga Therapist, Hospice Massage Therapist, End of Life Doula
• Sunita Iver, ND, LM, Naturopathic Physician & Midwife
• Iman Majd, MD, LAc, Director, Osher Clinic, Clinical Assistant Professor, Family Medicine 
• Lucille Marchand, MD, Palliative Care Physician

Re-humanizing Medicine: Transformation for Healers & Health Care Systems

Art and Healing