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FOR CAREGIVERS OR RELATIVES WHO WATCH THE PROGRESSION OF A DISEASE CALLED FRONTO-TEMPORAL DEMENTIA, OR F-T-D, IN A FAMILY MEMBER, IT CAN FEEL LIKE A STRANGER HAS MOVED INTO THE HOUSEHOLD.
F-T-D IS A RARE FORM OF DEMENTIA, WHICH CAN LEAD TO PROFOUND CHANGES IN A PERSON’S PERSONALITY AND BEHAVIOR AND IMPAIR COMMUNICATION. BECAUSE OF THIS, FTD IS OFTEN MISDIAGNOSED, CAUSING YEARS OF DELAY IN, APPROPRIATE MEDICAL ATTENTION.
JUST IN TIME FOR WORLD FTD AWARENESS WEEK, WE’RE JOINED TODAY BY DEB, WHO HAS BEEN A CAREGIVER TO SOMEONE WITH F-T-D, AND DR. TIFFANY CHOW, VICE PRESIDENT OF CLINICAL DEVELOPMENT AT ALECTOR AND A NEUROLOGIST EXPERT IN DEMENTIA.
BIO-About Dr. Tiffany Chow
Dr. Tiffany Chow is a Vice President, Clinical Development, Neurology at Alector. She is the author of Canadian bestseller, The Memory Clinic, a comprehensive and ultimately reassuring work about the prevention and management of dementia. She has spent most of her career as a Behavioral Neurologist working with patients and families living with dementias and supporting clinical trials for these illnesses.
Prior to joining Alector, Dr. Chow was a Senior Medical Strategy Director (Central Nervous System) at IQVIA, where she engaged with sponsors developing therapeutics for dementia, multiple sclerosis, myasthenia gravis, Duchenne’s muscular dystrophy, and migraine.
Dr. Chow is also an Adjunct Professor at the University of Pennsylvania Department of Pathology and Laboratory Sciences. She has previously served as Neurology faculty for the University of Southern California, the University of Toronto, and the University of California at Los Angeles. She earned her MD from Rush
