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Experts from the Farber Institute for Neurosciences at Thomas Jefferson University will answer questions from the public on what is being done to find better treatments for Alzheimer’s disease during the Community Learning Forum on Alzheimer’s Disease and Research on Thursday, Oct. 20.  CBS3 Anchor Larry Mendte and Alzheimer’s advocate and long-time consumer reporter Orien Reid Nix will serve as the forum’s moderators.

The free event will be held from 2 to 4 p.m. and at 7 to 9 p.m. that day at the First District Plaza at 38th and Market streets, Philadelphia. Discounted parking is available in adjacent parking lots and garages.

Panelists at the forum include Barry W. Rovner, M.D., director of Clinical Alzheimer's Research at the Farber Institute for Neurosciences and director of the Division of Geriatric Psychiatry and professor of Psychiatry and Human Behavior and Neurology, Jefferson Medical College of Thomas Jefferson University, and Laura Gitlin, Ph.D., director of Jefferson’s Center for Applied Research on Aging and Health, and professor in the Department of Occupational Therapy at the Jefferson College of Health Professions.

The forum is sponsored by the Delaware Valley Chapter of the Alzheimer’s Association.

To register, please call 215-561-2919.

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