Heart health and cognition presentation (Elvira Cisneros Senior Center)
Event Date & Time
March 18, 2019 at 10am-11:30amLocation
Elvira Cisneros Senior Community Center (WellMed) 517 SW Military Dr. San Antonio, TX 78221Event Details:
Join us for an interactive presentation to learn more about the roles of proper nutrition and other heart healthy behaviors on brain health and dementia. Registration is not required for this event. Please join us!
Hosted by Caring for the Caregiver, WellMed Charitable Foundation, and WellMed Caregiver SOS
Presentations by The Glenn Biggs Institute & The American Heart Association
About the Speaker(s)
Dr. Debora Melo Van Lent is a post-doctoral fellow at the Glenn Biggs Institute for Alzheimer’s and Neurodegenerative Diseases. She has a bachelor degree in dietetics, a master degree in nutrition and health, and a second master degree in epidemiology. All of which she obtained in the Netherlands. She completed a PhD in Bonn, Germany, for which she investigated the role of nutrition on dementia and cognitive decline.
Dr. Debora Melo Van Lent
melovanlent@uthscsa.edu
Glenn Biggs Institute for Alzheimer’s and Neurodegenerative Diseases
UT Health San Antonio