Informative and inspiring conversations with the practitioners and advocates and scientists and innovators and to be hosting this fascinating a breakthrough conversation with the new book the tax ask brain and research on womens brain health. And then to provide a roadmap for the risk of dementia if you dont have the book yet and interested in buying a copy you can address it in have more information i would recommend it. And to properly introduce our regular one or speaker professor lisa mosconi at Cornell Medical College or she is the founder and director of the womens Brain Initiative in of the alzheimers prevention clinic adjunct faculty member of psychiatry at nyu school of medicine and holds a phd in neuroscience and Nuclear Medicine. With the Early Detection of alzheimers disease in and that could be prevented through a combination of medical care with the intellectual fitness the author of brain food is another great book. Thank you for having me its a pleasure to be here. And
Storm, but now it is my pleasure to get the program started by passing it on to the museums Senior Historian and the executive director of the institute for the study of democracy doctor rob who will be leading todays conversation. Thanks, jeremy and welcome to everyone from beautiful new orleans louisiana. Quite literally in the path of the storm perhaps a few hours from now on the eye of the hurricane. We hope everything goes smoothly. New orleans gets a lot of the latter but we hope we do not get any today. Having said that, we are excited about todays program. Every now and then in my line of work you get to interview an author whose line of work you feel like youve read the published but with this particular author that might be difficult. A writer for the times uk and bestselling author of numerous books the supply and the traitor among the great big trail what a great book that is. I will just tell the audience you really dish this up in the style. Let me begin by asking the kin
Joining us are doctor Joseph Kvedar of the American Telemedicine Association and Harvard Medical School along with our desk reporter Kimberly Leonard of Business Insider. Doctor kay, how long is telemedicine been around and what has been the growth or use of it in the past couple of months . Its been around since some people say the early 1920s and there was a lovely picture in one of the magazines now Popular Science they had a different name for it but shows a family huddled around the radio having a visit with the doctor on the other side. The concept has been around for a while and since the late 60s is when it got going and it puttered along for the next several decades until a couple of months ago when the push we told everyone in the u. S. That they had to stay in their home and we as clinicians had to take care of them so it blossomed overnight at that point. Host how can it be used today . Guest in a number of ways. I think the best uses, first of all, Mental Health is the num
Q a box and the moderator will be reviewing those during the questionandanswer session which will conclude tonights program and now to introduce the moderator, it is my pleasure to pass this program over to doctor rob said tino. Thank you, jeremy. Im here, Senior Historian at the National World War Ii Museum in new orleans, louisiana. We have special guest tonight a friend of the museum and my friend and a wonderful writer and author, ian told brady ian, welcome. Thank you. Reporter and is probably one of those doesnt need an introduction and you all know the introduction could be long and and is an extremely accomplished scholar and he is the author of six the epic history of the founding of the u. S. Navy as well as a trilogy called the pacific war of the third volume of which has just been released called twilight of the gods. He has one the Samuel Elliott morrison award and one the William E Colby military writers award and has won the other Samuel Elliott morrison award given by t