UGEC Age-Friendly ECHO - Updates on Alzheimer's Disease in 2023

Dr. Norman Foster is a cognitive and geriatric neurologist specializing in the care of Alzheimer’s disease and related disorders. His research has focused on brain imaging and clinical drug trials. Dr. Foster is currently Professor Emeritus in the Department of Neurology at the University of Utah. He completed his undergraduate training at MacMurray College in Illinois and received his M.D. from the Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, where he subsequently completed an internship in Straight Medicine. After completing his residency in Neurology at the University of Utah in Salt Lake City, Dr. Foster relocated to Bethesda, Maryland for a three-year fellowship in Experimental Therapeutics with the National Institute of Neurological and Communicative Disorders and Stroke at the NIH. He was on the faculty at the University of Michigan and joined the University of Utah in 2005 to become founding Director of the Center for Alzheimer's Care, Imaging and Research. Dr. Foster also is the Founder and CEO of ProActive Memory Services, Inc., which is developing webbased mobile software using the company’s MemoryCarePartner© educational software platform to provide individualized Alzheimer training for direct care providers in assisted living facilities and personal care agencies.