Who we are
Fundació ACE – Barcelona Alzheimer’s Treatment & Research Center and the Alzheimer’s disease Research Center (ADRC) of the University Of Pittsburgh School Of Medicine organize since 1998 the biennial Barcelona–Pittsburgh Conference.
What we do
We work to offer a quality conference bringing together panelists of recognized national and international scientific prestige; and creating an interactive space related to neuroscience, with the ultimate objective of benefiting the affected people and their families.
Why us?
Over the years, the Barcelona – Pittsburgh Conference has become a reference in the field of dementia. The conference is aimed at all professionals working with dementia, both from a medical and a socio-legal perspective.
Speakers
Mercè Boada
CMO. Research Center and Memory Clinic. Fundació ACE. Institut Català de Neurociències Aplicades, Barcelona, Universitat Internacional de Catalunya, SpainOscar López
University of Pittsburgh, Scientific Committee of Fundació ACEVictor Villemagne
Associate Professor of Medicine, The University of Melbourne. Deputy Director, Molecular Imaging Research, Austin Health. Melbourne, Australia.James T. Becker
University of Pittsburgh. Scientific Committee of Fundació ACENorman Relkin
Associate Professor of Neurology at the Weill Cornell Medical College. Dr. Relkin has over 20 years of clinical trial experience.Sudah Seshadri
Professor of Neurology, Psychiatry and Cellular and Integrative Physiology, the Robert R. Barker Distinguished University Chair and Founding Director, Glenn Biggs Institute for Alzheimer’s and Neurodegenerative Diseases, San Antonio, Texas.Frank Jessen
University of CologneSteven Braithwaite
Chief Scientific Officer, Alkahest, San Carlos, CA, USAÁngel Carracedo
Professor of Genomic Medicine and Forensic Science, University of Santiago de Compostela, Director of the Galician Foundation of Genomic Medicine (Galician Service of Health- SERGAS).Pascual Sánchez-Juan
Director of the Valdecilla Biobank, Head of the Memory Unit of the University Hospital Marqués de Valdecilla (Santander) and member of the executive comitee of DEGESCO.Marcelo Berthier
Universidad de MálagaManel Esteller
IDIBELL – Bellvitge Biomedical Research Institute, BarcelonaMarta Marquié
Fundació ACE - Barcelona Alzheimer Treatment & Research Center, Barcelona, Spain.Carla Abdelnour
Fundació ACE - Barcelona Alzheimer Treatment & Research Center, Barcelona, Spain.Agustín Ruiz
CSO. Research Center and Memory Clinic. Fundació ACE. Institut Català de Neurociències Aplicades, Barcelona, Universitat Internacional de Catalunya, SpainAdela Orellana
Research Center and Memory Clinic. Fundació ACE. Institut Català de Neurociències Aplicades, Barcelona, Universitat Internacional de Catalunya, SpainSven van der Lee
Medical doctor and postdoctoral researcher at the Alzheimer center of the VU University medical center (Amsterdam, The Netherlands).Daniel van den Hove
Associate Professor at Maastricht University (the Netherlands) as well as at the University of Würzburg (Germany).Bryan Strange
The Vallecas Project. Fundación CIEN.Carolin Schwegler
Research Associate, Cologne Center for Ethics, Rights, Economics, and Social Sciences of Health (ceres), University of Cologne, GermanyBjörn Schmitz-Luhn
General Manager, ceres – Cologne Center for Ethics, Rights, Economics, and Social Sciences of Health, University of Cologne; Adjunct Professor, University of Economics and Management, Essen, Germany.Olga Sánchez-Soliño
ABVVIEAdam Fleisher
Chief Medical Officer Avid Radiopharmaceuticals, Eli Lilly and Co., Indianapolis, Indiana, U.S.A.Michael Ewers
Professor, Institute for Stroke and Dementia Research, Ludwig Maximilian University Munich LMU, Munich, Germany.Xavier Corbella
Vice Dean, Faculty of Medicine at Universitat Internacional de Catalunya (UIC Barcelona)Annie Cohen
Assistant Professor of Psychiatry, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine.Jordi Clarimón
PI Genetics of Neurodegenerative Disorders Unit, IIB-Sant Pau, BarcelonaChristopher Butler
Associate Professor in Clinical Neurosciences and Principle Investigator, Memory Research Group, University of Oxford, UK.John Ashburner
Professor of Imaging Science, UCL, London, UK.Yakeel T. Quiroz
Director, Familial Dementia Neuroimaging Lab, Massachusetts General Hospital, BostonChester Mathis
University of PittsburghJesús Ávila
Centro de Biología Molecular Severo Ochoa, Madrid. Scientific Committee of Fundació ACEMontserrat Alegret
Head of Neuropsychology. Research Center and Memory Clinic. Fundació ACE, Institut Català de Neurociències Aplicades, Barcelona – Universitat Internacional de Catalunya, Barcelona, Spain.Álvaro Pascual-Leone
Harvard Medical School, Boston & Institut Guttmann, BarcelonaJohannes Schroeder
Professor for Geriatric Psychiatry and Clinical Gerontology, Head, Section Geriatric Psychiatry Ruprecht- Karls University, Heidelberg/Germany.Gonzalo Sánchez-Benavides
Fundació Pasqual MaragallIsabel Hernández
Fundació ACE, BarcelonaVera Zingler
Senior International Medical Director Alzheimer's Disease, Product Development Medical Affairs, F. Hoffmann-La Roche Ltd. Basel, SwitzerlandCarmen Castrillo-Viguera
BiogenAntonio Páez
GrífolsPedro Pesini
Araclon BiotechRobert Sweet
UPMC Professor of Psychiatric Neuroscience and Professor of Neurology, University of Pittsburgh. Director, Clinical Core, University of Pittsburgh Alzheimer Disease Research Center. Pittsburgh, PA, USAAlfredo Ramírez
Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, University of BonnLluís Tárraga
CEO. Research Center and Memory Clinic. Fundació ACE. Institut Català de Neurociències Aplicades, Barcelona, Universitat Internacional de Catalunya, SpainGerard Piñol
Hospital Universitari de Santa Maria, Lleida / Universitat de LleidaMontserrat Costa
Grifols, BarcelonaJorge Jovicich
Associate Professor, MRI lab head and MRI Methods Group Leader at the Center for Mind/Brain Sciences, University of Trento, Italy.Gemma Monté
Head of Neuroimaging. Research Center and Memory Clinic. Fundació ACE, Institut Català de Neurociències Aplicades, Barcelona – Universitat Internacional de Catalunya, Barcelona, Spain.Milos Ikonomovic
Associate Professor of Neurology and Psychiatry, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine; Geriatric Research Education and Clinical Center, VA Pittsburgh HS, Pittsburgh, PA, U.S.A.Octavio Rodríguez
Research Center and Memory Clinic. Fundació ACE. Institut Català de Neurociències Aplicades, Barcelona, Universitat Internacional de Catalunya, SpainSilvia Gil
Research Center and Memory Clinic. Fundació ACE. Institut Català de Neurociències Aplicades, Barcelona, Universitat Internacional de Catalunya, SpainNúria Terribas
Director of Fundació Víctor Grifols i Lucas
Ayda Rostamzadeh
Attending physician at the Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, University Hospital of Cologne. Cologne, GermanyAlbert Lleó
Memory Unit Director, Neurology department, Hospital de Sant Pau, Barcelona, Spain.Jennifer Lingler
Associate Professor of Health and Community Systems and Psychiatry University of Pittsburgh Schools of Nursing and Medicine. Director of Outreach and Education, University of Pittsburgh Alzheimer Disease Research Center, Pittsburgh, PA, U.S.A.Scott Roberts
Genomics, Health & Society Program, Center for Bioethics and Social Sciences in Medicine, University of MichiganChristiane Woopen
Professor for Ethics and Theory of Medicine and Executive Director of the Cologne Center for Ethics, Rights, Economics, and Social Sciences of Health (ceres), University of Cologne.
Program
Day 1
23 May 2018
Day 2
24 May 2018
Day 3
25 May 2018
08:00 - 14:00
II Symposium on Dementia Genetics
14:00 - 15:30
Registration | World Trade Center
15:30-15:40
Welcome and objectives | WORKSHOP ON ETHICS
By: Mercè Boada, Fundació ACE, Barcelona, Frank Jessen, University of Cologne. PreDADQoL Study.
Frank Jessen
15:40 - 16:35
Panel: Predictive Diagnosis of Alzheimer’s disease: Quality of Life of Individuals at Risk and their Close Other (PreDADQoL).
15:41 - 16:05
Ethics and Alzheimer’s: what is changing.
Núria Terribas, Director of Fundació Víctor Grifols i Lucas.
Núria Terribas
16:05 - 16:20
16:20 - 16:35
16:30 - 17:35
Panel: How to manage disclosures using biomarkers?
16:35 – 16.55
Cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) biomarkers.
Albert Lleó
16:55 - 17:15
Positron emission tomography (PET) imaging.
Jennifer Lingler
17:15 - 17:35
17:35 - 17:50
Coffee Break
DISCUSSION
Chair: Björn Schmitz-Luhn, PreDADQoL project, University of Cologne
Octavio Rodríguez
Silvia Gil
Ayda Rostamzadeh
Albert Lleó
Jennifer Lingler
Scott Roberts
Frank Jessen
Mercè Boada
Christiane Woopen
07:30 - 08:30
Registration
08:30 - 09:00
Hot topic lecture | Challenges and Progress in Imaging Proteinopathies.
Chair: Gemma Monté, Fundació ACE, Barcelona
Chester Mathis
09:00 - 10:00
Panel | Neuroimaging
9:01 - 9:20
9:20 - 9:40
Analysis of anatomical MRI using SPM.
John Ashburner
9:40 - 10:00
10:00 - 10:15
Coffee Break
10:15 - 10:45
Hot topic lecture | Use of amyloid imaging in clinical trials and for the validation of fluid Biomarkers.
Chair: Pedro Pesini, Araclon.
Victor Villemagne
10:45 - 11:45
Panel | Biomarkers
10:46 - 11:05
Albumin functionality in Alzheimer Disease.
Montserrat Costa
11:05 - 11:25
11:25 - 11:45
11:45 - 12:45
Official Opening | 5th “Fundació ACE. Joan Boada & Mercè Rovira” award
12:45 - 13:15
Hot topic lecture | Explorations in the aging human connectome.
Chair: Lluís Tárraga, Fundació ACE, Barcelona
James T. Becker
13:45 - 14:45
Lunch
15:00 - 15:30
Hot topic lecture | Epigenomics of Dementia.
Chair: Agustín Ruiz, Fundació ACE, Barcelona
Manel Esteller
15:30 - 16:30
Panel | Advances in genomics.
15:31 - 15:50
15:50 - 16:10
16:10 - 16:30
16:30 - 17:00
Hot topic lecture | Innovative strategies in AD
Chair: Mercè Boada, Fundació ACE, Barcelona
Norman Relkin
17:00 - 18:00
Panel | Innovative strategies 1
17:01 - 17:15
17:15 - 17:30
Plasma Exchange in AD.
Antonio Páez
17:30 - 17:45
17:45 - 18:00
18:00 - 18:15
Coffee break
18:15 - 19:00
Panel | Innovative strategies 2
18:16 - 18:30
18:30 - 18:45
18:45 - 19:00
AbbVie’s vision for interventions in Alzheimer’s Disease.
Olga Sánchez-Soliño
19:00 - 19:30
Hot topic lecture | Present and future of CSF biomarkers.
Chair: Adela Orellana, Fundació ACE, Barcelona.
Charlotte Teunissen
08:30 - 09:00
Hot topic lecture | The long term prediction of incident dementia by commonly used biomarkers: amyloid deposition, neurodegeneration and vascular disease.
Chair: Isabel Hernández, Fundació ACE, Barcelona
Oscar López
09:00 - 10:00
Panel | Spanish cohorts
09:01 - 09:15
09:15 - 09:30
09:30 - 09:45
9:45 - 10:00
The ALFA Study. First results in a middle-aged cognitively healthy cohort.
Gonzalo Sánchez-Benavides
10:00 - 10:30
Hot topic lecture | Subjective Cognitive Decline: a new scope
Chair: Octavio Rodríguez, Fundació ACE, Barcelona.
Frank Jessen
10:30 - 11:00
Coffee Break
11:00 - 12:00
Panel | Prediction and prevention
11:01 - 11:20
11:15 - 11:30
11:30 - 11:45
11:45 - 12:00
Sustaining Brain Health and Promoting Resilience to Prevent Dementia.
Álvaro Pascual-Leone
12:00 - 12:30
Hot topic lecture | Presymptomatic brain changes in familial Alzheimer’s disease: implications for prevention trials
Chair: Marcelo Berthier, Universidad de Málaga.
Yakeel T. Quiroz
12:30 - 13:30
Panel | New approaches on neuropsychology
12:30 - 12:40
12:40 - 12:50
12:50 - 13:00
13:00 - 13:30
Final remarks and future scope
Chairs: Mercè Boada Fundació ACE, Barcelona, Agustín Ruiz Fundació ACE, Barcelona
Chester Mathis
James T. Becker
Jesús Ávila
Oscar López
13:30 - 13:45
Closing Ceremony
Xavier Corbella
Lluís Tárraga
Location
World Trade Center
Edif. Este, Moll de Barcelona, s/n, 08039 Barcelona
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