“’That would be dreadful’ – The challenges of sharing your Alzheimer’s gene and biomarker results”

presented by:

Jason Karlawish, MD

Dr. Jason Karlawish is a professor of medicine, medical ethics and health policy, and neurology at the University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine. He is board-certified in geriatric medicine.

He has investigated the development of Alzheimer’s disease treatments and diagnostics, biomarker-based concepts of disease, informed consent, quality of life, research and treatment decision making, and voting by persons with cognitive impairment and residents of long term care facilities.

He is a physician and writer. He cares for patients at the Penn Memory Center, which he co-directs, and studies and writes about issues at the intersections of bioethics, aging and the neurosciences. His essays have appeared in Forbes, The New York Times, Philadelphia Inquirer, STAT, KevinMD and                          The Washington Post. 

He is the project leader of makingsenseofalzheimers.org, a creative space for understanding the past, present and future of Alzheimer’s disease.    Making Sense of Alzheimer’s is an evolving forum for conversation about the disease. Its collection of  ideas captures the many dimensions  of Alzheimer’s, through the perspective of caregivers, patients, artists, researchers and clinicians.

Dr. Karlawish is a Senior Fellow of the Leonard Davis Institute of Health Economics, Senior Fellow of the Penn Center for Public Health Initiatives, fellow of the University of Pennsylvania’s Institute on Aging, director of the Penn Neurodegenerative Disease Ethics and Policy Program, Associate director of the Clinical Core and Co-Associate Director of the Alzheimer’s Disease Core Center, and co-director of the Penn Memory Center. He is also director of the Alzheimer’s Disease Center’s Outreach, Recruitment and Education Core.

In addition, he directs the Penn Prevention Research Center’s Healthy Brain Research Center, a member of the CDC-supported Healthy Brain Research Network dedicated to surveillance, education, awareness, and empowerment that promotes brain health.

Hosted by Dr. Mony J. de Leon