PROGRAMME 2026

Advances in Dementia & Alzheimer’s – forgotten diseases?

25th November, 2026 at Musikschule, Florhofgasse 6, Zurich

Chair: Raphaela Russmann, Zurich

PROGRAM

08:30                 
Opening of Registration Desk

9:00
Welcome by SGPM, President Martin Traber
Welcome by partner organizations

INTRODUCTION

SESSION I: The Helicopter View: Dementia vs Alzheimer’s disease

09:15-10:00      
Biological Definition of Alzheimer’s Disease and Related Dementia
Marc Aurel Busche, University Hospital Basel

SESSION II: Alzheimers’s Disease: Preclinical/Clinical Research

10:00-10:30      
Preclinical Developments in Alzheimer’s Disease
Gilles Allali, CHUV, Lausanne, CH           

10:30-11:00      
Coffee Break

11:00-11:30      
Biomarkers, Early Detectionand Disease Progressionof Alzheimer’s Disease
Martin Guess, Roche Diagnostics, Rotkreuz
11:30-12:00      
Current and Emerging Treatment Options: What does it take to be successful
Szofia Bullain, Biogen, Zug

12:00-12:30       Interlude music therapy

12:30-13:30       Lunch

SESSION III:    Valuing Innovation

13:30 – 14:00   
Real World Data in the Context of Regulatory Affairs
nn

14:00-14:30      
Health Technology Assessment (HTA) – health insurance reimbursement
Soeren Mattke, UCA, Boston(invited; online)

SESSION IV:    Prevention/Public Health

14:30-15:00      
Risk Reduction and Prevention/Public Health Impact
Heike Bischoff Ferrari, Felix Platter Spital, Basel 

15:00-15:30      
Coffee Break

15:30-16:00      
The Caretaker´s Perspective
Nina Wolf, Alzheimer Schweiz, Zurich

16:00-16:45      
Roundtable: Outlook to the future
Heike Bischoff-Ferrari, geriatric medicine
Rafael Meyer, memory clinic network
Sofia Bullain, pharmaceutical industry
Martin Guess, diagnostics
Nina Wolf, care giver perspective

16:45                 
Résumé

Apéritif