2019 Annual MELODEM Meeting

Dear MELODEM Member, We are pleased to invite you to the 2019 Annual MELODEM Progress Meeting, which we anticipate will take place at the Oceano Hotel in Half Moon Bay, California, starting the evening of Sunday, July 21.  This year we are very excited to be co-sponsoring our meeting with the Social Science Research Council (SSRC)!  The first half of MELODEM will be our usual focus on methods.  The second half of MELODEM will focus on the SSRC collaboration, which addresses the relevance of the social exposome for developing a precision medicine framework for diagnosing and developing therapies for Alzheimer’s disease and related causes of dementia. We think the social exposome discussion is highly relevant to MELODEM because of the methodologic challenges in evaluating the social exposome, but we recognize not all MELODEM attendees will be interested in this section of the meeting.  Therefore, we have several options for tickets below. You can choose to attend the entire meeting with the ticket for July 21-23, or choose individual nights with the tickets for the specific dates July 21, July 22, and July 23. Tentative schedule of events: Sunday July 21, Arrivals, first MELODEM meetings and dinner Monday July 22, MELODEM Presentations and introduction of Social Exposome topic Tuesday July 23, MELODEM-SSRC Social Exposome discussion Wednesday July 24, Breakfast buffet, final presentations on developing methods for social exposome and check out We anticipate having funding to cover two nights of hotel.  If additional funding becomes available we will also cover the third night for those who wish to stay.  We sincerely hope that you can join us this year, for the first half focused exclusively on methods or the full meeting of methods and social exposome.  This has been a terrific year for the working groups and for the development of MELODEM.  As research on Alzheimer's disease grows rapidly, we believe the mission of MELODEM is of ever greater importance and thank you for your contributions to the initiative.   Best, MELODEM leadership