Thank you to everyone who attended the 39th Annual Alzheimer's Tennessee Management and Research Symposium. Below are links to download the avalailable Presenters' slides. Check this page for selected presentations on video as they become available.
We look forward to seeing everyone in 2026 for the 40th Annual Alzheimer's Tennessee Management and Research Symposium.
Click the Links below to download the presenters’ slides in PDF format.
Day 1
Behavior and Communication - David Troxel
30 Activities in 30 Seconds Handout
Role of the Speech and Language Pathologist - David Hutchings, PhD
Self Neglect and Legal Interventions - Paul Helton, J.D
Memory, Forgetting and Art: Preserving Personhood - Daniel Potts, MD
Bridging the Gap: How Compensation Strategies Unlock Potential - Sallie Gentry, LCSW
Day 2
What’s on the Horizon? Research Advances - Gregory Jicha, Ph.D., MD
Movement Disorders and Dementia - Philip TiptonMD
New Diagnostic Methods - Monica Crane, MD
Anti-Amyloid Treatments - Monica Crane, MD
Schedule
How to Claim Credits—NOTE: Instructions Were in Email to All Registrants
ANCC Nursing Credits
- Ballad Health supplies the nursing credits. You will receive your nursing certificate via email about 3 weeks following the conference.
AAFP Credits
- The Department of Continuing Education for Health Professionals will issue your AAFP Certificate of Participation. You must email geracit@etsu.edu (Terry Geraci) to request your certificate. Please use a subject line of "Request for AAFP Certificate".
APA Credits
- Please be certain that the profession and degree fields in your CloudCME profile are populated correctly as this is how our system determines the proper credit type for each individual. Upon completion of the post-test and evaluation, your APA certificate is available to print. Click hereto check your profile in CloudCME.
CCMC
- The Department of Continuing Education for Health Professionals will issue your CCMC Certificate of Participation. You must email geracit@etsu.edu (Terry Geraci) to request your certificate. Please use a subject line of "Request for CCMC Certificate".
NAB Credits
- The Department of Continuing Education for Health Professionals will issue your NAB Certificate of Participation.You must email geracit@etsu.edu (Terry Geraci) to request your certificate. Please use a subject line of "Request for NAB Certificate" and be sure to include your NAB number. NOTE: NAB has a deadline for obtaining credits. Please be sure to request your certificate within 7 days of the conference.
NASW Credits
- Karen Franklin, Director of the NASW-TN office advised, "social workers do not need formally approved CEU's. They should be directed to contact their licensing board for rules and regulations and retain documentation of their course attendance/participation."
- Upon completion of the post-test and evaluation, print your Certificate of Participation. Then submit that certificate with the course agenda to claim NASW credits.
Physician Credits & Participation Credits
- Once you have completed the post-tests and evaluations, your transcript will automatically show the proper credits.
Learning Objectives
- Become familiar with new research advances and diagnostic methods for Alzheimer’s disease and other dementia subtypes
- Understand the connection between movement disorders and dementia
- Discuss frontotemporal dementia and rapid progressive dementia subtypes
- Explore behavior, communication and the role of a speech and language pathologist in dementia management
- Travel a physician’s personal journey with end-of-life care and hospice
- Learn about legal interventions with self-neglect
Featured Presenters
Target Audience:
Primary Care Physicians, APNs and PAs; Neurologists, Psychologists, Pharmacists, Nurses, Nursing Home Administrators and Social Workers.
Accreditations
