If you are in the Bay Area, we hope to see you at this event! Feel free to for­ward the invi­ta­tion below to any­one you know who may be interested.

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The grow­ing move­ment for improv­ing brain health has brought many inter­ested pro­fes­sion­als and inter­ested com­mu­nity mem­bers to the table. Shar­ing our infor­ma­tion, activ­i­ties, and planned events to pro­mote brain health increases the power of our reach.

Please join us on May 16, 2007 from noon to 1:30pm for a com­pli­men­tary gath­er­ing co-sponsored by:

• The Amer­i­can Soci­ety on Aging (Nancy Cerid­wyn will make some remarks),
• The Osher Life­long Learn­ing Insti­tutes (OLLI) at San Fran­cisco State Uni­ver­sity and Uni­ver­sity of Cal­i­for­nia at Berke­ley, and
• Sharp­Brains.

Dr. Elkhonon Gold­berg, well-known neu­ro­sci­en­tist and author of The Wis­dom Para­dox: How Your Mind Can Grow Stronger as Your Brain Grows Older and Alvaro Fer­nan­dez, CEO and Co-Founder of Sharp­Brains and instruc­tor of the Exer­cis­ing Our Brains class, will pro­vide an overview of the sci­ence and trends behind the emerg­ing brain fit­ness field.

Please bring infor­ma­tion on your work and events to share with oth­ers inter­ested in brain health.

Where: SFSU OLLI (835 Mar­ket Street, 6th Floor, San Fran­cisco, Room 675)
When: Wednes­day, May 16, 12–1:30 pm
What: A chance for net­work­ing with an infor­ma­tive pre­sen­ta­tion and dis­cus­sion.
Audi­ence: Com­mu­nity prac­ti­tion­ers, health and psy­chol­ogy pro­fes­sion­als, edu­ca­tors, and any­one inter­ested in life­long learn­ing and brain fit­ness
Cost: This event is free. Please bring your own lunch.
RSVP: By May 13 by email­ing events@sharpbrains.com. This is impor­tant to make sure we can accom­mo­date all participants.

Dr. Elkhonon Gold­berg is a clin­i­cal pro­fes­sor of neu­rol­ogy at New York Uni­ver­sity School of Med­i­cine and author of over 50 peer-reviewed papers. His areas of exper­tise include the frontal lobes and exec­u­tive func­tions, mem­ory, atten­tion deficit dis­or­der, demen­tia, and trau­matic brain injury. Dr. Gold­berg was a stu­dent and close asso­ciate of the great neu­ropsy­chol­o­gist Alexan­der Luria. His book The Exec­u­tive Brain: Frontal Lobes and the Civ­i­lized Mind (Oxford Uni­ver­sity Press, 2001) has received crit­i­cal acclaim and has been pub­lished in 12 lan­guages. His recent book The Wis­dom Para­dox: How Your Mind Can Grow Stronger As Your Brain Grows Older (Gotham Books, Pen­guin, 2005) offers an inno­v­a­tive under­stand­ing of cog­ni­tive aging and what can be done to fore­stall cog­ni­tive decline. It has been, or is in the process of being, pub­lished in 13 lan­guages. He is a Co-Founder and Chief Sci­en­tific Offi­cer of SharpBrains.

Alvaro Fer­nan­dez, Chief Exec­u­tive Offi­cer and Co-Founder of Sharp­Brains, holds an MBA and MA in Edu­ca­tion from Stan­ford Uni­ver­sity. Alvaro started his career in McK­in­sey & Com­pany in Europe and has par­tic­i­pated in the launch of e-commerce com­pany Ber­tels­mann Online, the turn­around of e-learning soft­ware com­pany Docent, Inc, and the launch of a new busi­ness unit of Edu­soft, a Houghton Mif­flin com­pany. He enjoys advis­ing the man­age­ment teams at social enter­prises Ashoka and Arcan­d­ina, and teach­ing the class Exer­cis­ing Our Brains at the SFSU and UC-Berkeley Osher Life­long Learn­ing Centers.