Community Outreach

This year we continued our community outreach via in-person presentations as well as virtual, reaching Monroe, Miami-Dade, Broward and Palm Beach Counties, as well those who live up north in the warmer months who are able to join via Zoom.

Dr. Galvin gave over 20 educational presentations in the Palm Beach County community addressing over 1,000 people Providing educational talks in our most northern outreach area is serving as an important resource to this aging population

Drs. Magda Tolea and Sarah Getz presented "Lifelong Promoters of Brain Health" as part of a lunch and learn Boynton Beach Library Brown Bag Series

Our EMBI junior faculty continued the “Maintaining a Healthy Aging Brain in a Pandemic World” series in 2022 for the Miami-Dade Public Library System The series continued in a virtual format which allowed the educational talks to reach far beyond the local library that sponsored each event. Over 200 community members were in attendance for these talks. Each presentation was followed by a lengthy question and answer session in which the attendees had the opportunity to speak directly to the doctors. Presentations in the series included:

"How to Sleep to Preserve Brain Health" by Dr. Agudelo

"How Mindfulness Affects the Brain" by Dr. McInerney

"How Nutrition Affects the Brain" by Dr. Marrero

"How Aging Impacts Memory and Cognition" by Dr. Camargo

"Brain Health and Stroke Prevention" by Dr. Marulanda-Londono

"How Sleep Affects the Brain" by Dr. Kaur

Dr. Galvin partnered with the Hussman Institute for Human Genomics (HIHG) to host the Comprehensive Center for Brain Health 2022 Fall Conference. The conference was very well attended.

Junior Faculty from Dr Levin’s Schoninger Neuropsychology Program gave these community presentations

Latino Center on Aging 9th Annual Conference “Una Vida Sin Memoria: Latinos & Alzheimer’s” Parkinson’s Disease in Latinos by Dr Sarno

Living Well with PD: Education Symposium

Invited Panelist for Parkinson’s Association of Southwest Florida, Naples, FL by Dr. Sarno

Virtual Spanish Language Educational Summit Alzheimer’s Foundation of America

Brain Health, Detection, and Diagnosis in the Latino Community by Dr. Buré-Reyes

Parkinson’s Foundation

Hacia Adelante: Navegando el Mar del Parkinson by Drs. Sarno and Buré-Reyes

Center on Aging “Para Mayores” La Poderosa 670 AM Weekly Radio Show

Alzheimer’s Disease and Hispanics: Una Vida Sin Memoria by Dr Sarno

Radio Segment (Spanish) on “Para Mayores” La Poderosa 670 AM

Alzheimer’s Disease: Signs, Symptoms, What to Do & Where to Go for Help by Dr Sarno iheart Radio Podcast: Estamos Contigo

The Importance of Engagement of Minorities in Research by Dr McInerney

Dr. Crocco gave the following trainings and lectures to the community and to caregivers specifically for the “Alzheimer’s Disease Initiative (ADI) Caregiver Training Seminars in Dementia” in Miami-Dade County. She developed and coordinated four hours of state mandated training to caregivers, ADI respite and daycare professionals and para-professionals for CEU accreditation provided in both English and Spanish. She developed and coordinated four hours of state-mandated dementia training to caregivers in respite and daycare centers for the “ADI Caregiving Training Program in Dementia” in the Florida Keys.