Event Series

Upcoming Events: Seminar Series

The McCance Center for Brain Health Seminar Series meets twice a month from 11:00 AM – 12:00 PM Eastern Standard Time, typically on Mondays with occasional Friday sessions. The series brings together upwards of 60 faculty members and their research teams to discuss the development of brain health indicators and interventions. The series is held virtually via Zoom.

The 2025-2026 academic year series is focused on the following key themes:

• Genetics of brain aging, neurodegenerative and psychiatric disorders
• Clinical trial methods and design
• Lifestyle approaches to brain health (including nutrition, metabolic, and mind-body)
• Hormesis
• Other emerging topics of interest identified by McCance Center leadership

This vibrant community of clinicians and scientists from across Mass General and its partner institutions is embracing radically new approaches to preventing brain disease and promoting brain health across the lifespan. The series often welcomes external speakers who also conduct transformational work in this field.

Beginning September 2025, we will offer Continuing Education credit for physicians and nurses.

Course Director: Rudolph Tanzi, PhD
Faculty: Gene Bowman, ND, MPH; Greg Fricchione, MD; Katherine Rosa, CNP, PhD
Course Coordinator: Elizabeth Fonseca, SM

To be added to the distribution list, contact MGH McCance Center for Brain Health at mghmccancecenterforbrainhealth@mgb.org

Speaker Schedule

Additional speakers to be announced. If you would like to attend these seminars, please contact mghmccancecenterforbrainhealth@mgb.org.

• 9/5/2025: Dorene May Rentz, PsyD
  Dr. Dorene Rentz is practicing clinical neuropsychologist with dual appointments in the Departments of Neurology at Brigham and Women’s Hospital (BWH) and Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH), Co-Director of the Center for Alzheimer Research and Treatment (CART) at BWH, the Clinical Core Lead of the Harvard Aging Brain Study and the Director of the Neuropsychology as well as the Outreach, Recruitment and Engagement Core of the Massachusetts Alzheimer’s Disease Research Center at MGH.
• 9/15/2025: P. Murali Doraiswamy, MBBS, FRCP
  Dr. Murali Doraiswamy is a Professor of Psychiatry and Professor of Medicine at Duke University School of Medicine at the Duke Institute for Brain Sciences, and a Senior Fellow at the Duke Center for the Study of Aging and an Affiliate Faculty at the Duke Center for Precision Medicine and Applied Genomics as well as the Duke Microbiome Center.
• 9/29/25: Martin (Can) Zhang, MD, PhD
  Dr. Zhang is Associate Professor of Neurology in the Genetics and Aging Research Unit, and affiliated faculty of the McCance Center for Brain Health at the Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School.
• 10/17/25: Gad Marshall, MD
  Dr. Marshall is Director of Clinical Trials, Center for Alzheimer Research and Treatment at Brigham and Women's Hospital, and Associate Professor at Harvard Medical School.
• 10/27/2025: Maiya R. Geddes, MD, FRCPC
  Dr. Geddes is an FRSQ neurologist scientist and an Assistant Professor in the Department of Neurology and Neurosurgery at McGill University.
• 11/10/25: Christiane Wrann, DVM, PhD
  Dr. Wrann is Associate Professor in Medicine at the Cardiovascular Research Center at Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School.
• 12/8/2025: Nanda Kumar Navalpur Shanmugam, PhD
  Nanda Kumar Navalpur Shanmugam, PhD, is Instructor of Neurology in the laboratory of Dr. Rudy Tanzi in the Genetics and Aging Research Unit and an affiliate member of the McCance Center for Brain Heath in the Neurology Department of Massachusetts General Hospital. Dr. Shanmugam’s research focuses on understanding the molecular mechanisms of the gut microbiota-host relationship, particularly in brain health.

Prior Events

Learn more about the Center's annual symposium and watch seminar recordings here.