REACH FOR SKY SPEAKER SERIES: Mobilizing Knowledge to Promote Brain Health and Healthy Aging
Mon, Mar 02
|Bowen Island Community Recreation
Traumatic Brain Injury and Vascular and Metabolic Health as Risk Factors for Dementia Time: 10:00am to noon with instruction on using hearing accessibility technology in the theatre at 9:30 (bring your hearing aid)
Time & Location
Mar 02, 2026, 9:30 a.m. – 12:20 p.m.
Bowen Island Community Recreation, 580 Bowen Island Trunk Rd, Bowen Island, BC V0N 1G2, Canada
About the event
You are invited to a seminar to learn about connections between physical exercise and
cognitive health. Practical tips for healthy aging will be discussed.
Cheryl Wellington is a Professor in the Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine at the UBC Faculty of Medicine and a researcher in the Canadian Consortium on Neurodegeneration in Aging. She obtained her PhD in Microbiology at UBC and
received postdoctoral training at Harvard Medical School, and the University of Calgary.
Her research interests focus on common genetic and environmental risk factors for dementia. She is internationally recognized for her work on lipid and lipoprotein metabolism in the brain, and her group has made key contributions to the understanding
of the role of apolipoprotein E (apoE) in Alzheimer’s Disease. ApoE is the major cholesterol carrier in the brain and the most established genetic risk factor for typical late-onset Alzheimer’s Disease. ApoE also plays a critical role…