Meryl is President and CEO of Geoffrey Beene Foundation Alzheimer's Initiative, which promotes early diagnosis, virtual innovation challenges, m-health technologies and national public service campaigns. She is a Founding Partner of the Global Alliance on Women's Brain Health and Co-Founder of WomenAgainstAlzheimer's. Meryl is also Co-Principal Investigator for the PCORI Alzheimer's, Dementia, Patient & Caregiver Powered Research Network (funded by PCORI), a partnership of the Mayo Clinic, UCSF Brain Health Registry and UsAgainstAlzheimer's. She is a veteran broadcast journalist. Her New York Times bestseller, Slow Dancing with a Stranger: Lost and Found in the Age of Alzheimer's (HarperCollins) is an unflinching account of her husband’s early onset Alzheimer’s disease and a “much-needed wake-up call for an honest dialogue about this fatal neurodegenerative disease.” All of the proceeds support Alzheimer's research.

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