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Join us for a special film screening and panel discussion to celebrate the 10th anniversary of the Global Brain Health Institute (GBHI) at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF), co-sponsored by the Alzheimer's Association, Northern California and Nevada Chapter.

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The program will feature selected short films from Let This Be a Symphony, a media advocacy campaign by Atlantic Fellow Michelle Memran that uses collaborative video storytelling to help de-stigmatize Alzheimer’s disease and related dementias. By centering lived experiences, the project seeks to shift both conversation and culture toward greater understanding, connection, and compassion.

Bringing together perspectives across storytelling, clinical care, research, and lived experience, this program explores how collaboration and advocacy can help advance brain health and support individuals and communities affected by dementia.

A panel discussion on co-created advocacy in brain health will follow the screening.

  • Moderator: Michelle Memran; Filmmaker, Artist & Advocate; Atlantic Fellow for Equity in Brain Health
  • Panelist: Bruce Miller, MD; A.W. and Mary Margaret Clausen Distinguished Professor in Neurology; Director, Edward and Pearl Fein Memory and Aging Center; Founding Director, GBHI, UCSF
  • Panelist: Susan Schneider Williams; Artist, Advocate and Care Partner
  • Panelist: Virginia Sturm, PhD; John Douglas French Alzheimer’s Foundation Endowed Professor, UCSF; GBHI faculty member.
  • Panelist: Constance Ayuk, MD, Atlantic Fellow, Global Brain Health Institute

Event Details

UCSF promotes the exchange of diverse ideas and perspectives, acknowledging that the views and opinions of our guest speakers on campus are their own and may not reflect the perspective of the University. We embrace free speech in the pursuit of greater understanding, consistent with our obligations as a public university under the First Amendment.