Meryl Comer is a Co-Founder of UsAgainstAlzheimers. For more than a decade (2007-2019), Meryl Comer served as President and CEO of the Geoffrey Beene Foundation Alzheimer's Initiative, a catalyst funder targeting early diagnosis through spirited public engagement campaigns, early assessment technologies, support of the first “virtual registry,” and pre-clinical Alzheimer’s disease research to modify disease risk. She served on the NIH National Advisory Council on Aging (NACA) from 2018 to 2022. In 2012, she led the formation of the 21st Century BrainTrust® (21CBT), a nonprofit partnership to advance mobile health technologies and brain health. Ms. Comer was also Co-Principal Investigator for the PCORI Alzheimer's Patient/Caregiver Research Network in partnership with the Mayo Clinic, UCSF's Brain Health Registry, and UsAgainstAlzheimer's. In 2009, she served on the bipartisan Alzheimer's Study Group, charged with presenting a National Strategic Plan to Congress. A former veteran broadcast journalist, 100% of the proceeds from her New York Times bestseller Slow Dancing with a Stranger (HarperCollins) supports Alzheimer’s research.
