Troen on Cuomo’s Fight Against Alzheimer’s Disease

New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo is proposing a new tool in the fight against Alzheimer’s disease. It is called “SUNY Curing Alzheimer's Health Consortium.” He wants to spend five years mapping one million people both suffering from and at-risk of developing the disease. “This looks to be a very ambitious program but one that is very complimentary to the other programs,” says Bruce R. Troen, MD, professor of medicine, chief of the Division of Geriatrics and Palliative Medicine and director of UB’s Center for Successful Aging. “Hopefully this will lay the foundation for ongoing investigation,” he notes. “New York state in taking the lead has been really doing this at a clinical services standpoint, but now it’s helping to plant a stake in the ground to say they also want to support research,” explains Troen.