Meryl Comer is a Co-Founder of UsAgainstAlzheimers and Chair of the Global Alliance on Women’s Brain Health. From 2007 to 2019, Ms. Comer served as President and CEO of the Geoffrey BeeneFoundation Alzheimer's Initiative, a catalyst funder targeting early diagnosis and pre-clinical research to modify disease risk. Currently she serves on the NIH/NIA National Advisory Council on Aging. She also led the formation of the 21st Century BrainTrust®; served as co-principal investigator for the PCORI Alzheimer's Patient/Caregiver Research Network; and was appointed and served on the bipartisan Alzheimer's Study Group, charged with presenting a National Alzheimer’s Strategic Plan to Congress. A veteran broadcast journalist, she is donating all the proceeds from her New York Times bestseller Slow Dancing with a Stranger(HarperCollins) to support Alzheimer’s research.
