Science & Technology Week: Maintaining Cognitive Health and Preventing Dementia

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Dr. Frank Longo, Professor of Medicine and Department Chair of Neurology and Neurological Sciences at Stanford University, will be the keynote speaker for the 2022 Science and Technology Week.

Dr. Longo’s talk, “Maintaining Cognitive Health and Preventing Dementia” is sponsored by the Los Altos Library Endowment as part of Science and Technology Week at the Los Altos libraries.

Dr. Longo trained as a resident in neurology at the University of California, San Francisco, where he also completed a fellowship in neurobiology. He joined the UCSF faculty and eventually served as professor and vice chair of UCSF’s Department of Neurology. At Stanford, Dr. Longo serves as the Chair of the Department of Neurology and Neurological Sciences. His interests include translational research in neurodegenerative disease, providing patient care in the Stanford Memory Disorders Clinic, and mentoring medical students, residents, and other trainees.

Dr. Longo was awarded a Beeson Scholarship in aging research by the American Federation for Aging Research, is the inaugural recipient of the Melvin R. Goodes Prize for Excellence in Alzheimer’s Drug Discovery from the Alzheimer’s Drug Discovery Foundation and currently serves on the advisory council for the National Institute on Aging.