2024 Solomon Carter Fuller Brain Health Brunch | Highlights and Presentation Recording [Video]

The Solomon Carter Fuller Brain Health Brunch is an annual event that aims to build awareness of Alzheimer’s disease in the African American community. The event was organized by the Wisconsin Alzheimer’s Disease Research Center and the African Americans Fighting Alzheimer’s in Midlife (AA-FAIM) study, with support from the CLARiTI study, PREDICT study, Wisconsin Registry for Alzheimer’s Prevention (WRAP) and the All of Us Research Program.

The educational event is named after Dr. Solomon Carter Fuller, the first African American psychiatrist and a pioneer in the field of Alzheimer’s disease research. Dr. Fuller worked closely with Dr. Alois Alzheimer in Germany in the early 1900s and wrote some of the earliest and most comprehensive scientific papers published in English about dementia.

Keynote Speaker: Dr. Lisa Barnes, Alla V. and Solomon Jesmer Professor of Gerontology and Geriatric Medicine, department of neurological sciences, RUSH Medical college, neuropsychologist, Rush Alzheimer’s Disease Center

Read more about the event on our website: https://www.adrc.wisc.edu/news/addressing-higher-alzheimers-rates-african-americans
Learn more about African Americans Fighting Alzheimer’s Disease in Midlife (AA-FAIM): https://wrap.wisc.edu/about-aa-faim/