Margaret Gibson, current Connecticut Poet Laureate, is the author of 12 books of poetry, including Not Hearing the Wood Thrush (2018) and Broken Cup (2014), centered on memory loss from Alzheimer's and the gifts of sustaining presence through lament, acceptance, and love. She is...
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Lewis Hyde’s recent book, A Primer for Forgetting (FSG, 2019), explores the many situations in which forgetfulness is more useful than memory—in myth, personal psychology, politics, art & spiritual life. A MacArthur Fellow, Hyde taught for many years at Kenyon College.
Aimee Kao, MD, PhD, is a UCSF Associate Professor of Neurology. She has received the Paul G. Allen Family Foundation Distinguished Investigator Award in Neurodegenerative Diseases and the Glenn Award for Research in the Biological Mechanisms of Aging.
Joel Kramer, PsyD, is a UCSF Professor of Neuropsychology and Director of the Memory and Aging Center Neuropsychology program. Dr. Kramer's research uses neuroimaging, neuropsychology, neuroimmunology, and genetics to study the underlying biological mechanisms of cognitive aging...
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Bruce L. Miller, MD, holds the Clausen Distinguished Professorship in Neurology at UCSF. Dr. Miller also co-directs the Global Brain Health Institute, working to reduce the social and personal impact of dementia around the world by training a new generation of leaders to translate...
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Virginia Sturm, PhD, is an Associate Professor at UCSF in the Departments of Neurology and Psychiatry. Her research focuses on identifying the neural systems that support emotion and social behavior in neurodegenerative disease and neurodevelopmental disorders.
Jane Hirshfield's ninth poetry collection, Ledger (Knopf), appears in 2020. Chancellor emerita of the Academy of American Poets and recently elected into the American Academy of Arts & Sciences, she works frequently at the intersection of poetry and science. Her work appears in...
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