August 16-22, 2010
Vail Marriott Mountain Resort & Spa
Vail, Colorado
Karen Bell, MD
Dr. Bell is a Clinical Professor of Neurology at Columbia University in New York
City, in the G.H. Sergievsky Center and the Taub Institute for Research on Alzheimer’s
Disease and the Aging Brain. She also holds the position of Attending Physician
at New York Presbyterian Hospital.
Dr. Bell completed her undergraduate studies at New York University, and earned
her medical degree at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine in Philadelphia.
She served her internship in internal medicine at Harlem Hospital Center in NYC,
and completed her neurology residency at The Neurological Institute at Columbia
University, College of Physicians and Surgeons. Dr. Bell also completed a fellowship
in Behavioral Neurology, and now specializes in the evaluation and treatment of
neurodegenerative cognitive disorders.
Dr. Bell’s research interests at the Taub Institute include the treatment and prevention
of Alzheimer’s disease through clinical trials, and she is the director of the Alzheimer’s
Disease Clinical Trials Group at Columbia University. She was the Director of the
Minority Recruitment Core for NIA-funded Alzheimer’s Disease Cooperative Study,
and is interested in achieving ethnic diversity in enrollment in Alzheimer’s disease
clinical trials on a national level. As the leader of the Education Core of the
Alzheimer’s Disease Research Center at Columbia University, Dr. Bell has developed
physician and community education programs.
Dr. Bell is a member of the American Academy of Neurology and the National Medical
Association. She serves on multiple NINDS Data Safety Monitoring Boards and has
been a member of the Columbia University Medical Center Institutional Review Board
since 2003. She was appointed to the New York State Council on Graduate Medical
Education in 2009. Dr. Bell is an external advisor to National Medical Association’s
Project I.M.P.A.C.T. initiative and to the Alzheimer’s Association/CDC Healthy Brain
Initiative.
APPLICATIONS DUE BY 3/26/2010
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Supported by the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke |
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