Introducing Ahead of Alzheimer’s

Alzheimer’s is one of the fastest growing diseases in America, and yet most doctors still aren’t trained to catch it early when we can make the biggest difference.

I’ve lived through Alzheimer’s disease with two grandparents, one on each side of my family. At the time, there wasn’t much we could do beyond taking good care of them.

Today, we have deeper knowledge and better tools to treat and prevent Alzheimer’s. We know early action can protect you and save your family years of grief.

We also know how to solve problems at the health system level and get people the help they need sooner. But problems at this scale won’t get solved until people raise the volume.

Ahead of Alzheimer’s showcases the wisdom and experience of people on the frontlines of this disease who are finding solutions, fixing the system, and giving people reason to hope.

The show is hosted by the brilliant Emily Kaplan, a former ABC News investigative journalist and CEO and Co-founder of The Broken Science Initiative and MetFix. She leads deep, positive, enriching conversations on an array of topics and invites a broader audience to understand risk and act sooner.

You’ll hear from doctors and nurses who are taking care of people and designing better care models — including Dr. Jeff Burns, who chairs the Alzheimer’s Policy Working Group. Government leaders who are fighting to change the system. Researchers who are discovering brilliant new insights to help protect our minds. And most importantly, you’ll hear from patients and families who are living with this disease, and whose beautiful stories of perseverance have inspired me to put everything I have into this fight.

You can watch the show at AheadofAlzheimers.org and subscribe for updates on Substack and YouTube. Please share it with the people you love. Tell them what you’re learning, and that there is something we can do about Alzheimer’s. We have agency. We have hope. Together we can raise the volume and bring this disease out of the shadows and into the light.

• Episode 1: Dr. Brent Beasley, Former Physician and Patient

• Episode 2: Dr. Jeff Burns, Trailblazing Neurologist at the University of Kansas Health System and Board Chair of the Alzheimer’s Policy Working Group

• Episode 3: Michelle Branham, Florida Secretary of the Department of Elder Affairs and Chair of the HHS NAPA Committee

• Episode 4: Dr. Robert Redfield, Former CDC Director

• Episode 5: Phil Coticelli, Executive Director of the Alzheimer’s Policy Working Group and Co-Founder of Rebuild Medicine

• Episode 6: Dr. John Showalter and Grace Showalter, Co-Founders of Mindful Integrative Medicine

• Episode 7: Louise Fisher, Caregiver for her husband

• Episode 8: Angela Calman, Caregiver for her mother

Nota bene: Ahead of Alzheimer’s is a project of Rebuild Medicine, a nonprofit coalition of clinical leaders that I co-founded in 2024, and which shares the same goal as the Alzheimer’s Policy Working Group: to improve life for patients and families by reforming the healthcare system. It was an honor to help bring this show to life and participate as a guest.