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DETECT ALZHEIMER'S

Alzheimer’s disease (AD) is a serious and irreversible brain disorder that impairs memory and cognition, progressively worsening to include behavioral changes and an inability to perform simple tasks. It is estimated that AD affects over 7 million adults aged 65 years and older in the United States today and is projected to affect nearly 13 million adults by 2050.

Alzheimer’s is the most common cause of dementia, accounting for 60% to 80% of cases. AD has a broad impact on the lives of patients and their caregivers, as well as on supporting healthcare and long-term care systems. Although there is no cure for AD, early diagnosis, adoption of healthy lifestyle changes, and advancements in treatment can help patients maintain brain health, improve cognitive function, and slow or delay the progression of their disease. DETECT Now!

Americans aged 65 years and older living with AD today

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(projected) Americans living with AD by 2050

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Leading cause of death among people age 65 and older in 2022)

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(projected) in health and long-term care costs for people living with AD and other dementias in 2025

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~2/3rd
Americans with Alzheimer's are women

>140%
Increase in deaths from AD between 2000 and 2022

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Alzheimer’s Association ® . Data source: 2025 Alzheimer’s Disease Facts and Figures.
( https://www.alz.org/alzheimers-dementia/facts-figures ). Accessed February 27, 2026.

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Scientific Council

Marc Agronin, MD
Chief Medical Officer

Frank C. and Lynn Scaduto MIND Institute and Behavioral Health

Miami Jewish Health

Miami, FL

Liana G. Apostolova, MD, MSc, FAAN
Associate Dean of Alzheimer’s Disease Research

Indiana University Distinguished Professor

Barbara and Peer Baekgaard Professor of Alzheimer's Disease Research

Professor in Neurology, Radiology, Medical and Molecular Genetics

Indiana University School of Medicine

Department of Neurology

Indianapolis, IN

Alireza Atri, MD, PhD
Chief Medical Officer, Banner Research

Banner Alzheimer’s and Research Institutes

Pheonix, Sun City, and Tucson, AZ

Director, Banner Sun Health Research Institute

Sun City, AZ

Frederik Barkhof, MD, PhD, FRCR
Professor of Neuroradiology

Department of Radiology and Nuclear Medicine

Amsterdam UMC (location VU mc)

Amsterdam, The Netherlands

UCL Queen Square Institute of Neurology

UCL Hawkes Institute

London, United Kingdom

Sharon A. Brangman, MD, FACP, AGSF
Distinguished Service Professor
Chair, Department of Geriatrics
Director, Upstate Center of Excellence for Alzheimer’s Disease
SUNY Upstate Medical University
Syracuse, New York

Christopher Chen, BM BCh, MRCP, FAMS, FRCP
Professor, Department of Pharmacology
Director, Memory Aging and Cognition Centre
Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine
National University of Singapore
Singapore

Choong Chih Ching, MBChb NZ, FRCR UK
Senior Consultant, Department of Diagnostic Imaging

RadLink, Singapore

Visiting Consultant, National University Hospital and
National Cancer Centre of Singapore

Anupama Roy Chowdhury, MBBS, MRCP, FAMS
Head and Senior Consultant
Department of Geriatric Medicine
Singapore General Hospital
Singapore

Natalie Christian, MD
Assistant Professor, Geriatrics

Program Director, Geriatric Medicine Fellowship

Tulane University School of Medicine

Southeast Louisiana Veterans Healthcare System

New Orleans, LA

Petrice M. Cogswell, MD, PhD
Associate Professor
Mayo Clinic
Rochester, Minnesota

Ariel F. Cole, MD, FAAFP
Program Director, AdventHealth Geriatric Fellowship

Winter Park, FL

Brad Dickerson, MD, MMSc, FAAN, FANPA
Professor of Neurology, Harvard Medical School

Director, Frontotemporal Disorders Unit, Department of Neurology, Massachusetts General Hospital

Boston, MA

Richard M. Dupee, MD, MACP, AGSF
Clinical Professor of Medicine

Tufts University School of Medicine

Clinical professor, Department of Public Health and Community Medicine, Tufts University

Chief, Geriatrics Service, Tufts Medical Center

Senior Physician, Pratt Diagnostic Center

Dean ex officio, Office of International Affairs, Tufts University School of Medicine

Boston, MA

Fanny Elahi, MD, PhD
Associate Professor of Neurology, Neuroscience, and AI and Human Health

Icahn School of Medicine

Mount Sinai

New York, NY

James M. Ellison, MD, MPH
Professor of Psychiatry and Human Behavior

Sidney Kimmel Medical College

Co-Director, Comprehensive Alzheimer’s Center

Vickie & Jack Farber Institute for Neuroscience

Thomas Jefferson University

Philadelphia, PA

Juan Fortea, MD, PhD
Professor of Neurology
Director, Alzheimer-Down Unit
Hospital de la Santa Creu i Sant Pau
Sant Pau Biomedical Research Institute
Barcelona, Spain

Ana M. Franceschi, MD, PhD
Associate Professor of Radiology
Director of Dementia Imaging
Director of Molecular Neuroimaging
Donald and Barbara Zucker School of Medicine at Hofstra/Northwell
Lenox Hill Hospital
New York, New York

Giovanni B. Frisoni, MD
Professor of Clinical Neuroscience

University of Geneva

Director, Memory Clinic

Geneva University Hospitals

Geneva, Switzerland

Samuel Gandy, MD. PhD
Professor of Neurology & Psychiatry
Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
James J Peters VA Medical Center
New York, New York

James E. Galvin, MD, MPH
Professor of Neurology

University of Miami Miller School of Medicine

Miami, FL

David S. Geldmacher, MD
Professor and Director

Division of Memory Disorders and Behavioral Neurology

Department of Neurology

Heersink School of Medicine

University of Alabama at Birmingham

Birmingham, AL

George T. Grossberg, MD
Henry & Amelia Nasrallah Endowed Professor

Director of Geriatric Psychiatry

Department of Psychiatry & Behavioral Neuroscience

Saint Louis University School of Medicine

St. Louis, MO

M. Atsushi Iwata, MD, PhD
Professor of Neurology

Department of Neurology

The University of Tokyo

Tokyo, Japan

Scott A. Kaiser, MD
Director of Geriatric Cognitive Health

Pacific Neuroscience Institute

Santa Monica, CA

Adjunct Professor

USC Leonard Davis School of Gerontology

Los Angeles, CA

Lynn E. Kassel, PharmD, BCPS
Associate Professor of Pharmacy Practice

Drake University College of Pharmacy & Health Sciences

Des Moines, IA

Diana R. Kerwin, MD, CPI
President, Kerwin Medical Center

Chief, Geriatric Medicine, Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital

Dallas, TX

Alka Khera, MD
Assistant Professor

UT Southwestern Neurology

Dallas, TX

Sumeet Kumar, MBBS, DNB, FRCR, EDiNR
Senior Consultant, Department of Neuroradiology
National Neuroscience Institute of Singapore
Clinical Assistant Professor, Duke-NUS Medical School
Adjunct Director for Advanced Magnetic Resonance Imaging Research
Radiological Sciences Academic Clinical Program (RADSC ACP)
SingHealth Duke-NUS Academic Medical Centre
Singapore

Rosemary D. Laird, MD, MHSA, AGSF
Chief Medical Officer, My Memory Clinic
Principal Investigator, ClinCloud Clinical Trials
Viera, Florida

Chi-Ying (Roy) Lin, MD, MPH, FAAN
Director, CurePSP Center of Care for PSP, CBD, and MSA

Assistant Professor of Neurology

Alzheimer's and Parkinson's Disease Centers

Baylor College of Medicine

Houston, TX

Catherine A. Madison, MD
Founding Director Ray Dolby Brain Health Center

San Francisco, CA

Scott McGinnis, MD
Assistant Professor of Neurology, Harvard Medical School

Center for Alzheimer Research and Treatment

Brigham and Women's Hospital

Frontotemporal Disorders Unit

Massachusetts General Hospital

Boston, MA

Kristin S. Meyer, PharmD, BCGP, FASCP
Professor of Pharmacy Practice

Drake University College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences

Des Moines, IA

Charles Montano, MD
Owner, Principal Investigator

CT Clinical Research

Cromwell, CT

Mary Norman, MD
Geriatrician

Cedars-Sinai Medical Group

Los Angeles, CA

Tiago Gil Oliveira, MD, PhD
Associate Professor
Life and Health Sciences Research Institute
School of Medicine
University of Minho
Neuroradiologist
Hospital de Braga
Braga, Portugal

Monica Parker, MD
Associate Professor of Neurology

Lead, Outreach, Recruitment, and Engagement Core

Goizueta Alzheimer's Disease Research Center

Goizueta Brain Health Institute

Emory University

Atlanta, Georgia

Lucilla Parnetti, MD
Professor of Neurology Department of Medicine and Surgery University of Perugia Perugia, Italy

Manisha Parulekar, MD, FACP, AGSF, CMD
Director, Division of Geriatrics

Co-director, Center for Memory Loss and Brain Health

Hackensack University Medical Center

Hackensack, NJ

Giulio Maria Pasinetti, MD, PhD
The Saunders Family Chair in Neurology, Professor in Neurology

Director, Mount Sinai Center in Advance Botanical Research in Molecular Integrative Neuroresilience

Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai

New York, NY

Director, Basic and Biomedical Research and Training Program, Geriatric Research and Clinical Center

James J. Peters Department of Veterans Affairs Medical Center

Bronx, NY

Robert Perneczky, MD, PhD 
Professor of Psychiatry
Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy
Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich
German Center for Neurodegenerative Diseases
Munich, Germany

Anton P. Porsteinsson, MD
William B. and Sheila Konar Professor of Psychiatry, Neurology,

Neuroscience, and Medicine

Director, Alzheimer’s Disease Care, Research and Education

Program (AD CARE)

University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry

Rochester, NY

Michael S. Rafii, MD, PhD
Professor of Clinical Neurology
Medical Director, Alzheimer’s Therapeutic Research Institute
Keck School of Medicine of USC
Los Angeles, California, USA

William D. Rhoades, DO, FACP
Chief Medical Officer

Advocate Good Samaritan Hospital

Downers Grove, IL

Barry W. Rovner, MD
Professor, Departments of Psychiatry & Neurology

Sidney Kimmel Medical College

Thomas Jefferson University

Philadelphia, PA

Marwan Noel Sabbagh, MD, FAAN, FANA
Moreno Family Chair for Alzheimer’s Research

Vice Chairman for Research and Professor

Department of Neurology

Barrow Neurological Institute

Phoenix, AZ

Martin J. Sadowski, MD, PhD
Zachary and Elizabeth M. Fisher Professor of Neurodegeneration and Alzheimer's Disease
Professor of Neurology, Psychiatry, and Biochemistry & Molecular Pharmacology
New York University Grossman School of Medicine
Director, Fisher Center Alzheimer’s Clinical Trials Program
New York, NY

Stephen Salloway, MD, MS
Professor, Psychiatry and Human Behavior
Professor of Neurology, Alpert Medical School of Brown University
Providence, Rhode Island

Angela Sanford, MD, CMD
Associate Professor of Internal Medicine-Geriatrics

Saint Louis University School of Medicine

Ballwin, MO

Philip Scheltens, MD, PhD
Professor Emeritus of Neurology
Amsterdam University Medical Center
Head Dementia Fund at EQT Life Sciences
Amsterdam, Netherlands

Suzanne E. Schindler, MD, PhD
Associate Professor of Neurology
Division of Neurology
Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis
Investigator, Knight Alzheimer Disease Research Center
St. Louis, Missouri, USA

Paul E. Schulz, MD
Rick McCord Professor of Neurology

Umphrey Family Professor of Neurodegenerative Disorders

Director, Memory Disorders and Dementia Clinic

UTHealth Houston

Houston, TX

Sharon J. Sha, MD, MS
Clinical Professor
Clinical Professor
Neurology and Neurological Sciences
Stanford University
Chief, Stanford Memory Disorders Center
Stanford Medicine Health Care
Palo Alto, CA

Jiong Shi, MD
Professor of Neurology

Department of Neurology

Huashan Hospital

Fudan University

Shanghai, China

Neil Skolnik, MD
Professor of Family and Community Medicine

Sidney Kimmel Medical College

Thomas Jefferson University

Philadelphia, PA

Sandra Swantek, MD
Director, Section of Geriatric Psychiatry

RUSH University Medical Center

Chicago, IL

R. Scott Turner, PhD, MD
Professor of Neurology

Director of the Memory Disorders Program

Georgetown University

Washington, DC

Lawren VandeVrede, MD, PhD
Assistant Professor of Neurology
Memory and Aging Center
Department of Neurology
University of California, San Francisco
San Francisco, California, USA

Chuck Vega, MD, FAAFP
Health Sciences Clinical Professor

UC Irvine Department of Family Medicine

Director, UCI Program in Medical Education for the Latino Community

University of California Irvine

Irvine, CA

Nicolas Villain, MD, PhD
Professor of Neurology
Department of Neurology
Sorbonne University
Neurologist, Pitié-Salpêtrière Hospital
Assistance Publique – Hôpitaux de Paris
Paris, France

Geoffrey C. Wall, PharmD, FCCP, BCPS
John R. Ellis Distinguished Chair of Pharmacy Practice

Professor of Clinical Sciences

Director, Drake Drug Information Center

Drake University College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences

Internal Medicine Clinical Pharmacist

Iowa Methodist Medical Center

Des Moines, IA

David A. Wolk, MD, FAAN
Professor of Neurology

Director, Penn Alzheimer’s Disease Research Center

University of Pennsylvania

Philadelphia, PA

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