At San Juan Bautista School of Medicine (SJBSM), we are excited to share the enthusiasm received from the scientific community to attend the 9th Interdisciplinary Research Symposium’s Plenary Session titled “The Road to Alzheimer’s Disease Prevention: The Intersection between Research and Evidence-based Practice”and the response to our call for poster presentations. The Symposium will take place on Thursday, April 3, 2025, from 12:00 p.m. to 5:00 p.m. at SJBSM in Caguas, PR. We invite you to join us during registration at our entrance lobby for networking and appetizers from 12:00 to 1:00 pm. The Symposium will begin with a Plenary Session followed by the Poster Session.
For the Plenary Session, we are proud to have three distinguished speakers discuss the impact, challenges, and benefits of early diagnosis of Alzheimer’s disease from the perspectives of a basic scientist, a medical doctor, and an advanced nurse practitioner. We welcome Dr. Yaritza Inostroza, SJBSM faculty researcher and Research Center Co-director, who will share her laboratory findings at the conference “Unraveling the Renin-Angiotensin System’s Role in Alzheimer’s Disease: From Genetic Risk to Therapeutic Potential.” Dr. Jose Rodriguez Gomez, a Full Professor at Albizu University and an Ad-Honorem Full Professor at SJBSM, holds an MD, an MPH, and a PhD, as well as multiple postgraduate certificates, and is an avid researcher. He will share the “Development of a Screening Computer Instrument for Alzheimer’s Dementia: A Pilot Study with Puerto Rican Elderly.” To conclude the session, we are pleased to welcome our guest, Gloria Ossa, from the University of South Florida’s Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Neurosciences, USF Memory Disorder Clinic in Tampa. She will share her experience as an Advanced Registered Nurse Practitioner, licensed in Adult Gerontology Primary Care, with a focus on early diagnosis of Alzheimer’s disease. The plenary Conferences will be delivered in Spanish, accompanied by an English PowerPoint presentation to facilitate communication.
We appreciate the submission efforts of the 89 abstracts made in the four categories for poster presentations: Basic Sciences (23), Case Reports (29), Clinical Research (23), and Behavioral/Community (14). As has been our tradition, all abstracts were carefully evaluated by the submission criteria, and those selected will begin at 3 pm following the Plenary Session. It will be an honor to announce the two poster presentations with the highest scores in each category before 5 pm.
IMPORTANT NOTE:
Register here
to listen to the Plenary Conferences.
