LeeAnn Mandarino, MA, CDP, Program Director, Education, Advocacy, and Outreach.
LeeAnn Mandarino has worked with the Cleveland Clinic Lou Ruvo Center for Brain Health in Las Vegas, Nevada, since 2007. She is an experienced conference organizer, having implemented scores of local, regional, national, and international CME conferences and symposiums. Gatherings, like the Leon Thal Symposium for the Prevention of Dementia-2007, 2008, and 2009, was a series of policy-oriented meetings that significantly influenced the content of the Alzheimer’s Study Group and the National Alzheimer Project Act of 2011.
In addition, LeeAnn is a lead for the Dementia Friendly Clark County Advocacy Group in Las Vegas, NV. She is a Parkinson’s Place – Las Vegas board member, and hosts a series of PD and Movement Disorder community education programs throughout the year as part of the Parkinson’s Disease Center of Excellence at Cleveland Clinic in Nevada. LeeAnn is also Vice-Chair of the State of Nevada Task Force on Alzheimer’s Disease, a legislatively created advocacy group promoting policies to help individuals affected by Alzheimer’s disease and related dementias.
LeeAnn strives to empower individuals and families, struck by the physical, emotional, and behavioral toll of neurodegenerative brain diseases, by arming them with education and resources that will enable them to care for themselves and the individuals they tend to. She does this by collaborating with a multitude of organizations and agencies in her community, county, state, and beyond. She also oversees the Education, Outreach, and Advocacy team at the Cleveland Clinic.
LeeAnn Mandarino has worked with the Cleveland Clinic Lou Ruvo Center for Brain Health in Las Vegas, Nevada, since 2007. She is an experienced conference organizer, having implemented scores of local, regional, national, and international CME conferences and symposiums. Gatherings, like the Leon Thal Symposium for the Prevention of Dementia-2007, 2008, and 2009, was a series of policy-oriented meetings that significantly influenced the content of the Alzheimer’s Study Group and the National Alzheimer Project Act of 2011.
In addition, LeeAnn is a lead for the Dementia Friendly Clark County Advocacy Group in Las Vegas, NV. She is a Parkinson’s Place – Las Vegas board member, and hosts a series of PD and Movement Disorder community education programs throughout the year as part of the Parkinson’s Disease Center of Excellence at Cleveland Clinic in Nevada. LeeAnn is also Vice-Chair of the State of Nevada Task Force on Alzheimer’s Disease, a legislatively created advocacy group promoting policies to help individuals affected by Alzheimer’s disease and related dementias.
LeeAnn strives to empower individuals and families, struck by the physical, emotional, and behavioral toll of neurodegenerative brain diseases, by arming them with education and resources that will enable them to care for themselves and the individuals they tend to. She does this by collaborating with a multitude of organizations and agencies in her community, county, state, and beyond. She also oversees the Education, Outreach, and Advocacy team at the Cleveland Clinic.