Date: Friday 23 May, 2025
Time: 9:30am - 12:00pm
Location: Nautilus Arts Centre, Media Room, 66 Tasman Terrace, Port Lincoln
(access via Washington Street).

Cost: Free community event, everyone welcome.

Join us for an enlightening morning to hear from two leading academics as they share cutting-edge research and practical strategies to reduce dementia risk and maintain a healthy brain as you age.

Schedule:

9:30-10:30am: Professor Kirk Erikson, AdventHealth Research Institute, USA.
Risk for dementia: Revealing the role of modifiable factors

10:30-11:00am: Morning tea break (refreshments provided)
11:00-11:45am: Associate Professor Ashleigh Smith, UniSA, Adelaide.
Placing rural people at the forefront of dementia prevention strategies
11:45-12:00pm: Q&A and closing remarks

Please RSVP for catering purposes.

Prof Kirk Erickson is Director of Translational Neuroscience and Mardian J. Blair Endowed Chair of Neuroscience at the AdventHealth Research Institute, Neuroscience Institute. Kirk's vast research program focuses on the effects of physical activity on brain health across the lifespan.

A/Prof Ashleigh Smith is a Henry Brodaty Dementia Australia Research Foundation Mid-Career Research Fellow and the Deputy Director of the Alliance for Research in Exercise, Nutrition and Activity (ARENA) Research Centre at the University of South Australia. Ash has a broad an unique skill set and expertise that encompasses neuroscience, exercise physiology and cognitive ageing.

Contact:
britt.burton@mymail.unisa.edu.au
08 8302 7035

This event is hosted and supported by: Alliance for Research in Exercise, Nutrition and Activity (ARENA), UniSA | Department of Rural Health, UniSA | The Rural Health and Aged Care Education Centre, Port Lincoln | The Hospital Research Foundation Group.

Better Brains for Rural Communities: Aging Well Together