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Mild Neurocognitive Disorder: Evaluation and Decision-Making at the Gateway to Dementia - James Ellison MD, MPH
Mild Cognitive Impairment, officially known as Mild Neurocognitive Disorder, describes the acquired changes in mental functioning that constitute the border land between normal cognitive aging and Major Neurocognitive Disorder. As our aging population increases, we have been fortunate enough to have both new approaches to detection and new tools for treatment. In this presentation, Dr. Ellison will review the clinical and biological bases for diagnosing and treating Mild Neurocognitive Disorder with a discussion of etiology, features, assessment, and treatment, both nonpharmacological and pharmacological.
Target Audience
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Learning Objectives
- Recognize the distinctions between normal cognitive aging, subjective cognitive impairment, mild neurocognitive disorder, and dementia (major neurocognitive disorder)
- Assess and diagnose mild neurocognitive disorder (MiND) according to its DSM5TR current definition
- Intervene with diagnosis disclosure, decision making, planning, and appropriate management, including disease modifying immunotherapy and brain-healthy lifestyle
Dr. Ellison trained to be a psychiatrist at the Mass General Hospital, then worked as a general and geriatric psychiatrist in or near Boston from 1982 to 2015. He also has a masters degree in Public Health from Harvard. He has developed clinical programs and educated his peers and public in multiple settings. His clinical specialties include the assessment and treatment of neurocognitive disorders and mood disorders in older adults. He is a researcher, the editor in chief of the Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry and Neurology and the author or editor of several books and multiple peer-reviewed articles.
For many of his years in Massachusetts, he directed the Geriatric Psychiatry Program at McLean Hospital. While there, he also supervised the department's research program and served as developer and program director of the Partners HealthCare Geriatric Psychiatry Fellowship.
Dr. Ellison moved to Delaware in 2015 to become the first Swank Foundation Endowed Chair in Memory Care and Geriatrics. In this role, he worked with an exceptional interdisciplinary team to improve the interdisciplinary team-based care of older adults by increasing their access to state of the art diagnostic tools, clinical assessment and treatment approaches, caregiver support resources, and research trials.
In 2023, he moved to Jefferson Health, where he continues his career in Geriatric Psychiatry as a clinician and consultant to psychiatry and neurology and Family Medicine, and as co-director of the Comprehensive Alzheimer's Center of the Vickie & Jack Farber Institute for Neuroscience. He is currently helping Jefferson to develop a pathway for administration of emerging treatments for Alzheimer's Disease, focusing on patient safety and treatment access for underserved, high-risk patient populations. He is also proud to serve as past president of the Psychiatric Society of Delaware.
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