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The Dementia Researcher, ISTAART PIA Relay Podcast is back for a second, 5-part series. Where the interviewee becomes the interviewer. With five leading researchers discussing their research, their field, and the work of the Alzheimer\u2019s Association ISTAART Professional Interest Area they represent.\n\nPart Two \u2013 Professor Zahinoor Ismail interviews Professor Jennifer Whitwell\n\nZahinoor Ismail is a Neuropsychiatrist; Professor of Psychiatry, Neurology, Epidemiology, and Pathology at the Hotchkiss Brain Institute and O\u2019Brien Institute for Public Health; Cumming School of Medicine; University of Calgary. Zahinoor works on Dementia prognostication and early dementia detection using non-cognitive markers, treatment of neuropsychiatric syndromes across the cognitive spectrum, pharmacoepidemiology. Zahinoor is representing the Neuropsychiatric Syndromes PIA.\n\nJennifer Whitwell is a Professor of Radiology at the May Clinic, Rochester having originally grown up and trained in the UK. Jennifer\u2019s research focuses on the investigation of neuroimaging biomarkers, including MRI and PET, in different neurodegenerative disorders, including Alzheimer\u2019s disease and frontotemporal lobar degeneration. She is particularly focused on using neuroimaging to better understand disease mechanisms and progression in patients with atypical clinical presentations of Alzheimer\u2019s disease, highlighting the phenotypic heterogeneity present in this disease. Jennifer is representing the Atypical Alzheimer\u2019s Disease PIA.\n\nYou can find out more about our panellists, and their work on our website:\n\nhttps://www.dementiaresearcher.nihr.ac.uk \n\nA transcript of this podcast is also available here\n\nhttps://www.dementiaresearcher.nihr.ac.uk/podcast-relay-one-season-2\n___________________________\n\nThe Alzheimer's Association International Society to Advance Alzheimer's Research and Treatment (ISTAART) convenes the global Alzheimer's and dementia science community. Members share knowledge, fuel collaboration and advance research to find more effective ways to detect, treat and prevent Alzheimer's and other dementias. Professional Interest Areas (PIA) are an assembly of ISTAART members with common subspecialties or interests.\n\nThere are currently 27 PIA covering a wide range of interests and fields, from the PIA to Elevate Early Career Researchers to Biofluid Based Biomarkers and everything in between.\n\nTo sign-up to ISTAART and a PIA visit www.alz.org/istaart/\n_________________________\n\nFinally, please review, like, and share our podcast - and don't forget to subscribe to ensure you never miss an episode.\n\nRegister on our website to receive your weekly bulletin, and to access more great content \u2013 blogs, science, career support + much more\n\nThis podcast is brought to you in association with Alzheimer's Research UK and Alzheimer's Society, who we thank for their ongoing support.\n\nFinally, the views and opinions expressed by guests in this podcast represent those of the guests and do not necessarily reflect those of NIHR Dementia Researchers, PIA membership, ISTAART or the Alzheimer's Association.