You're invited to join us for the fifth annual UCSF Dementia Day! The event will be held in person from 9:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. on Monday, Dec. 8, at the Sandler Neurosciences Center and will feature expert speakers and a poster session. A detailed agenda is provided below, featuring themes such as diagnosis, care management, caregiver support, and transitions of care, as well as end-of-life care. This event is free and open to the UCSF community. The goals of the event are to inspire future research related to dementia, expand the reach of the groundbreaking research being conducted by each department across UCSF, enable everyone to learn from one another’s successes, broaden the training of future leaders, and foster interdepartmental collaborations and partnerships.

Agenda

9:30 a.m. – 9:45 a.m.
WELCOME Introduction and Opening Remarks
Howie Rosen, MD & Kristine Yaffe, MD

SESSION 1: DIAGNOSIS

9:45 a.m. – 10:00 a.m. 
“His PCP has truly been our lifeline”: Unpacking Primary Care Workforce Assets and Challenges in Dementia Diagnosis
Alissa Sideman, PHD, MPH, MA

10:00 a.m. – 10:15 a.m. 
Improving the Diagnosis of Cognitive Impairment at Lakeshore Family Medicine with the TabCAT-BHA
Mukund Premkumar, MD & Kate Possin, PhD

10:15 a.m. – 10:30 a.m.
Supporting Diagnosis of Dementia in Primary Care
Howie Rosen, MD

10:30 a.m. – 10:45 a.m. 
Agentic AI for Neurodegenerative Disease Diagnosis
Pedro Pinheiro-Chagas, PhD

10:45 a.m. – 11:00 a.m.
Q&A Panel Drs. Sideman, Premkumar, Possin, Rosen & Pinheiro-Chagas

11:00 a.m. – 11:15 a.m.
Break

SESSION 2: CARE MANAGEMENT AND CAREGIVER SUPPORT

11:15 a.m. – 11:30 a.m. 
Strategies to Reach and Support Rural Family Caregivers of Persons Living with Dementia in the United States
Veronica Yank, MD

11:30 a.m. – 11:45 a.m.
Building a Care Ecosystem for the >9 Million Americans Who Will Be Living with Dementia and Their Families in Ten Years
Sarah Dulaney, RN, MS, CNS

11:45 a.m. – 12:05 p.m.
Opportunities to Address the Socially Constructed Disadvantage of Living Alone with Cognitive Impairment
Elena Portacolone, PhD, MBA, MPH

12:00 p.m. – 12:15 p.m.
Q&A Panel Drs. Yank and Portacolone & Ms. Dulaney

12:15 a.m. – 1:35 p.m. 
Lunch & Poster Session

SESSION 3: TRANSITIONS OF CARE AND END OF LIFE

1:35 p.m. – 1:50 p.m.
Age-Friendly ED Initiatives in Caring for Patients with Dementia
Nida Degesys, MD

1:50 p.m. – 2:05 p.m.
 Incorporating Prognosis in the Care of Older Adults with Dementia
James Deardorff, MD

2:05 p.m. – 2:20 p.m.
Gaps and Opportunities to Improve Brain Health Care Among Older Adults Undergoing Spine Surgery
Odmara Barreto Chang, PhD

2:20 p.m. – 2:35 p.m.
End-of-life Plans and Care for Dementia: Clinical Opportunities and Inequities
Krista Harrison, PhD

2:35 p.m. – 2:50 p.m. 
Q&A Panel Drs. Degesys, Deardorff, Barreto Chang & Harrison

2:50 p.m. – 3:05 p.m. 
Break

SESSION 4: DEMENTIA CARE AT UCSF

3:05 p.m. – 3:20 p.m.
Landscape of Care at UCSF
Matthew Growdon, MD, MPH & Natalie Young, MD

3:20 p.m. – 3:30 p.m. 
Vision and Panel Introduction
Bruce Miller, MD

3:30 p.m. – 4:30 p.m. 
Panel Envisioning the Future of Dementia Care at UCSF
Kara Bischoff, MD; Michael Helle, NRP/CCP/FP-C, MHA, MBA; Inga Lennes, MD, MBA; Gil Rabinovici, MD; Stephanie Rogers, MD & Laura Hill-Sakurai, MD