Allzheimer's Treatments Discusses

The Gerontology Institute Distinguished Speaker Series will feature a talk on Monday, February 1, by Dr. Pierre Tariot of the University of Rochester School of Medicine. Tariot's lecture, "Current and Future Treatments for Alzheimer's Disease," is scheduled for 7:30 p.m. in the Emerson Suites, Phillips Hall. It is free and open to the public.

Tariot has investigated, and lectured extensively on, multiple aspects of diagnosis and therapy for dementia and Alzheimer's disease, recognition and management of behavioral disturbances in long-term-care settings, and treatment of depression in the elderly. He has also served as chair of the Behavioral Pathology Committee of the National Institute on Aging's Consortium to Establish a Registry for Alzheimer's Disease.

Since 1986 Tariot has been on the faculty of Rochester's medical school, where he is professor of psychiatry, medicine, and neurology. He also serves as codirector of the university's neurology and psychiatry clinic, director of psychiatry at Monroe Community Hospital, and director of the University of Rochester component of the Alzheimer's Disease Cooperative Study, funded by the National Institute on Aging.

Tariot has been honored with an American Geriatrics Society New Investigator Award for Neuroscience, an NIMH Geriatric Mental Health Academic Award, and fellowship in the Gerontological Society of America. His research affiliations include the National Institute of Mental Health, New York State Department of Health, National Institute on Aging, and Alzheimer's Association.

For more information, call 274-1965.