Banner recruits top Alzheimer's expert to lead new Institute
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Dr. Pierre Tariot, an internationally recognized leader in Alzheimer's research, is coming to Arizona to help Banner Health's Eric Reiman lead the new Banner Alzheimer's Institute (BAI). The institute, which will have approximately 120 staff and be housed in a 50,000 square-foot facility, will work toward a new standard of care for patients and families, and continue to support Arizona's leading model of statewide collaboration.
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Dr. Pierre Tariot, an internationally recognized leader in Alzheimer's research, is coming to Arizona to help Banner Health's Eric Reiman lead the new Banner Alzheimer's Institute (BAI). Tariot joins BAI from the University of Rochester Medical Center in New York.
BAI's mission is to help end Alzheimer's, set a new standard of care for patients and families, and continue to support Arizona's leading model of statewide collaboration. The institute comprises a memory disorders clinic, a family and community services program, a clinical trials program, cutting-edge brain imaging, and genomics research in partnership with the Translational Genomics Research Institute (TGen).
"The Banner Alzheimer's Institute is specifically designed to find disease-stopping treatments in the shortest possible time, and to identify ways to actually prevent Alzheimer's disease without having to lose a generation," said Reiman, executive director of the institute.
According to Reiman, the new institute will ultimately have approximately 120 staff and will be housed in a 50,000 square-foot facility.
The Arizona-based Institute for Mental Health Research helped open the dialogue with Tariot that led him to join BAI as associate director.
According to the Business Journal, Tariot turned down half a dozen other offers from around the country.
"I chose the only (offer) where I'm not the director because of my conviction that this environment is the one where we're most likely to succeed in a very ambitious undertaking," Tariot told the Business Journal. "The vision that the folks here had come up with independently exceeded my own."
Tariot will direct the Institute's memory disorders clinic, family and community services program, and clinical trials center. He is known for his expertise in the diagnosis and treatment of Alzheimer's disease, and is a recognized leader in the evaluation of investigational treatments for the memory and thinking problems caused by the disease.
For more information:
"Banner lands foremost Alzheimer's expert," Business Journal, 03/24/2006