The National Institutes of Health is the major funder of America's medical research, which is the finest in the world. Cuts in staff and funding at NIH could stall the development of treatment for diseases like Alzheimer's, stroke, cancer and infectious disease epidemics. Bruce Miller, Clausen Distinguished Professor of Neurology at University of California, San Francisco, will explain what is at stake for health in the United States and the world, while describing advances in Alzheimer’s disease research at UCSF.

Bruce Miller is the Clausen Distinguished Professor of Neurology at UCSF, where he runs UCSF’s Memory and Aging program. He is a founding director of the Global Brain Health Institute and has received numerous awards, including the American Academy of Neurology’s Potamkin Award, The Alzheimer’s Association Lifetime Achievement Award and UCSF’s Lifetime Achievement in Mentoring. He has been featured in The New York Times, CBS "60 Minutes" and "The Charlie Rose Show." He is a member of the prestigious National Academy of Medicine and the author of Mysteries of the Social Brain: Understanding Human Behavior Through Science.