An Evening with Professor Nick Fox and Dominica Yang in Hong Kong - Preventing Dementia
16 May 2025, 6:30 pm–10:00 pm
Join us for an evening with Professor Nick Fox, Professor of Clinical Neurology at UCL’s Queen Square Institute of Neurology and Director of the Dementia Research Centre, and Dominica Yang, UCL alumna and author of My Mum Called Alzheimer's.
Professor Nick Fox will share UCL’s latest research on preventing dementia and discuss new treatments, while Dominica shares insights from her book, which documents her experience of caring for a parent with Alzheimer’s.
Date: Friday 16 May 2025 Time: 6:30pm-10pm HKT (6:30pm arrival, dinner served from 7pm) Location: Hong Kong Club, 1 Jackson Road, Central, Hong Kong Price: HK$1,100* (Includes 3 course dinner and a copy of My Mum Called Alzheimer’s) Registration: Please make payment via FPS (90168438) to Andrew Ng by 1 May, including guest name(s) in the payment reference
About the Speakers
Professor Nick Fox
Professor of Clinical Neurology at UCL’s Queen Square Institute of Neurology and Director of the Dementia Research Centre
Nick Fox is Professor of Clinical Neurology at UCL’s Institute of Neurology and a consultant neurologist at the National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery, Queen Square where he runs a specialist cognitive clinic. He has published over 500 peer reviewed papers and received a number of awards including the 2017 Weston Brain Institute International Outstanding Achievement Award, the 2018 Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh Alexander Morison Medal and the 2022 Grand Prix Européen for Alzheimer’s research. His research focus has been using on imaging and biomarkers for diagnosis and monitoring and to contribute to the search for effective therapies in dementia. He has clinical and research interests in young onset and familial dementias and helped set up the first UK support groups for these disorders. He has fundraised (£10M) to establish the first Rare Dementia Support Centre to improve education about, and support for, people with dementia, their families and those who care for and about them.
Dominica Yang
Dominica Yang, UCL alumna, is a staunch supporter of the arts, education and philanthropic causes. She has worked with charitable and non-profit organisations, including the Hong Kong Arts Centre where she was Chair from 2018-2024. She spent many years caring for her late parents and late parents-in-law. In 2015 she co-founded a Dementia Support group in Hong Kong, hosting talks with visiting academics from around the world and cultivating a network for carers. Author of four cookbooks all to benefit charitable causes, My Mum Called Alzheimer’s is her first biographical work. She hopes sharing her personal story will raise awareness of the disease as well as support for all carers.
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