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March 2025
The 2025 Summit takes place in London on 25 March 2025. The Summit will have parallel strands on disrupting the science: accelerating innovation in prevention, diagnosis and treatments, and a second stand on disrupting the system: building the future health system. The meeting brings together policy makers, academics, industry and avocates and will focus on how to accelerate innovation and deliver change.
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May 2025
The 2025 Satellite Summit takes place in Lima, Peru on May 13 2025. The meeting brings together policy makers, academics, industry and avocates and will focus on the public policy landscape in Latin America and the Caribbean. Across research, prevention, awareness and care how we make advances.
WDC Announces Dr. Joanne Pike as Incoming Chair
The World Dementia Council (WDC) is pleased to announce Joanne Pike, DrPH, will become the next chair of the WDC, effective March 2025. Dr. Pike, the president and CEO of the Alzheimer's Association, has served as the vice chair of the WDC since September 2023.
“I am honored to take on this new role as WDC Chair at a time of historic importance for the Alzheimer’s and dementia community,” said Pike. “I look forward to leading the WDC’s work ensuring governments, nonprofits and the private sector continue to address the global dementia public health crisis. In this new era of treatments, this work is essential to ensuring global health inequities in Alzheimer’s disease do not deepen further.”
WDC’s current chair, Professor Philip Scheltens, has served as chair since 2021. In March he will stand down as chair and continue on as a WDC trustee.
“I’m immensely proud of the impact WDC has made since its founding in 2013 and will continue to do under Dr. Pike’s stewardship,” said Professor Scheltens. “I look forward to continuing in my role as WDC trustee as together we work to improve the global response to the dementia crisis.”