On 29 November, the Slovak Presidency of the European Union organised a conference on \u201cAlzheimer\u2019s disease \u2013 epidemic of the third millennium: Are we ready to face it?\u201d in Bratislava, focussing on four key themes discussed by four panels. One of the panels was on \u201cPrevention and Intervention strategies in Alzheimer\u2019s disease\u201d and included a presentation by the European Prevention of Alzheimer\u2019s dementia (EPAD) initiative.<\/p>\n
EPAD Coordinator Serge Van Der Geyten (pictured, second from left), Director for Neuroscience external Affairs at Janssen, Belgium presented the pioneering work being done by our project partners to deliver a novel, more flexible approach to clinical trials for drugs designed to prevent Alzheimer\u2019s dementia.<\/p>\n
The prevention panel also included local speakers Simona Adamovi\u010dov\u00e1 from the Memory Centre, Slovakia and Petr Nov\u00e1k from the Slovak Institute of Neuroimmunology.<\/p>\n
Other panels at the conference were on: \u201cDementia as a global health priority and scientific challenge\u201d with presenters from the European Commission, the Karolinska Institute, Sweden and the World Health Organisation (WHO); \u201cAlzheimer\u2019s disease trip through the EU Presidency\u201d with presenters from the Scottish Government, the State Secretary for Health, Welfare and Sports of the Netherlands and the Memory Centre, Slovakia; and \u201cNational programmes and Action plans on dementia\u201d with presenters from Alzheimer Europe, the Slovak Academy of Science and the 2017 Maltese EU Presidency. In closing this final panel, Justyne Caruana, Malta\u2019s Parliamentary Secretary for Rights of Persons with Disability and Active Ageing together with Charles Scerri, Focal Point for Dementia from Malta highlighted their country\u2019s vision for dementia and Malta\u2019s plans for its EU Presidency during the first half of 2017.<\/p>\n
EPAD was delighted and honoured to have been involved in this high-level international conference, which brought together over 100 experts from different EU Member States and provided an opportunity to highlight policy and research initiatives at global, European and national level.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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