TEPHI Grand Rounds | Human Prion Diseases
When & Where
May 22, 2025
3:00 PM - 4:00 PM
Virtual ( View in Google Map)
Contact
- TEPHI
- [email protected]
Event Description
In this upcoming TEPHI Grand Rounds webinar, Dr. Brian Appleby will provide an overview of prion diseases, including their clinical characteristics, causes, and transmissibility. This session will highlight the critical role of ongoing human prion disease surveillance in the United States. Dr. Appleby, a neuropsychiatrist and Professor at Case Western Reserve University, treats and researches cognitive disorders, including prion diseases, frontotemporal lobar degeneration, and young-onset dementias. He also serves as Director of the National Prion Disease Pathology Surveillance Center—the only center of its kind in the U.S.—and Medical Director of the Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease (CJD) Foundation.
Event Site Link
https://go.uth.edu/TEPHIGR_Registration
Additional Information
In this upcoming TEPHI Grand Rounds webinar, Dr. Brian Appleby will provide an overview of prion diseases, including their clinical characteristics, causes, and transmissibility. This session will highlight the critical role of ongoing human prion disease surveillance in the United States. Dr. Appleby, a neuropsychiatrist and Professor at Case Western Reserve University, treats and researches cognitive disorders, including prion diseases, frontotemporal lobar degeneration, and young-onset dementias. He also serves as Director of the National Prion Disease Pathology Surveillance Center—the only center of its kind in the U.S.—and Medical Director of the Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease (CJD) Foundation.
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