Premier Gordon Campbell exhorted a group of researchers gathered at UBC Hospital to join forces – with each other, and with the broader society – in the fight against Alzheimer’s Disease and related dementias.
Speaking to members of the Canadian Dementia Action Network (CDAN) who were meeting at the Brain Research Centre Jan. 28, Premier Campbell said the approaching wave of aging baby boomers will multiply the disease’s heavy toll, not only on the victims themselves, but on their families and society as a whole, and thus will require a level of collaboration rarely seen in public life.
The CDAN conference was organized by Dr. Pat McGeer, professor emeritus in the Dept. of Psychiatry at UBC, and Team Leader of CDAN’s Basic Research Team. Speakers included researchers from McGill University, University of Toronto, Dalhousie University, University of Calgary and University of Alberta.
Two members of Parliament – Ed Fast of Abbotsford and Ujjal Dosanjh of Vancouver South, the Liberal Party’s Health Critic – as well as Colin Hansen, BC’s Minister of Finance and Minister of Health Services, also addressed the gathering.
Max Cynader, Director of the Brain Research Centre, a joint network of UBC-Vancouver Coastal Health scientists, spoke as well.
For more information, visit http://www.med.ubc.ca/media/201101/Premier_Campbell_opens_conference_on_dementia_at_Brain_Research_Centre.htm
