Dr. Neelum Aggarwal Curriculum Focus: Wellness Brain Fitness: The Importance of Keeping Your Brain in Top Shape This session incorporates the latest research data on the connection between the mind and body, and how diet, physical exercise and stress impact our levels of overall brain fitness. The session will also discuss the role of multi-tasking in our lives. What really happens in the brain when we multi task, specifically how does excessive multitasking lead to more, not less, stress in our lives.

Dr. Neelum Aggarwal is a clinician‐researcher, author and expert in the fields of longevity, aging and Alzheimer’s disease. She is asked regularly to provide commentary on her own research and articles of interest, and her work and activities have been featured on local television networks in Chicago. Dr. Aggarwal has blogged extensively on health and wellness topics and has lectured and given presentations, nationally and internationally, to both the scientific and nonscientific communities. She is an Associate Professor of Neurological Sciences at Rush Alzheimer’s Disease Research Center.

Dr. Aggarwal’s additional credentials include:

• Board Member of the American Medical Woman’s Association
• Member of the Women’s Health Advisory Council for Healthy Women (HW), the nation’s leading independent health information source for women.
• Contributing Editor to Medpedia, an online collaboration with Harvard Medical School, Stanford School of Medicine, Berkeley School of Public Health and the University of Michigan Medical School, that advances knowledge about health, medicine, and the body among medical professionals and the general public.
• Member of the American Academy of Neurology (AAN)
• Counselor for the Women in Neurology (WIN) Section of the AAN