Dr Constantine Lyketsos

Recent Speaker

Leading expert in Alzheimers Research - Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Centre

September 23, 2009

"Dementia: Facing the Epidemic"

Professor Lyketsos is an active clinician, teacher and research and Vice Chair of psychiatry at Johns Hopkins University and Chair of Psychiatry at Johns Hopkins Bayview.  He also directs the Johns Hopkins Memory and Alzheimers Treatment Centre.   An expert in the care and treatment of patients with Alzheimer’s and related dementias, he has carried out pioneering work regarding the epidemiology and treatment of neuropsychiatric features of Alzheimer disease. His team is developing biomarker methods to accelerate treatment development for Alzheimer’s and designing and implementing innovative clinical trials for the treatment of Alzheimer’s. He also leads efforts to ensure the provision of state of the art Dementia Care to people with dementia in their community or assisted living homes.

His clinical expertise has been recognized by citation as one of America’s Top Doctors for several years and was recently cited as a Best Doctor In America. He has been honoured by election to membership of the American College of Psychiatrists, the American College of Neuropsychopharmacology, and as Distinguished Fellow of the American Psychiatric Association. Dr Lyketsos has authored over 250 publications, book chapters, and commentaries, and Guest Edited several Journal special issues.

Professor Lyketsos’ theme for his presentation will be Dementia: Facing the Epidemic covering such issues as:

• A vision for world class dementia care
• The economic and social significance of dementia worldwide.
• The progress made in better understanding dementia.
• The strategies to reduce the numbers of people with dementia.
• The strategies for improving the quality of dementia care.