Jorge Llibre Guerra, MD, MS

Jorge Llibre completed his medical training at the Medical University of Havana, followed by a residency in neurology at the National Institute of Neurology, where he was Chief Resident. He has received awards from the Ministry of Health, American Academy of Neurology, World Federation of Neurology, and Havana School of Medicine. University College London awarded him a training experience in Global Mental Health. Llibre created the Cognitive and Behavior Research Unit at the National Institute of Neurology in order to help meet the needs of the aging population and was tapped to help in the National Strategy for Dementia and Alzheimer's disease. In 2016, he joined the Global Brain Health Institute at the Memory and Aging Center, UCSF, where received fellowship training in Behavioral Neurology and Global Mental Health. Since 2018, Dr.Llibre joined the DIAN and has been leading research efforts to DIAD families in Latin America. His research focuses on health disparities and dementia. Recent work focuses on the influence of life course behavioral risk/protective factors on AD onset, cognitive decline, and biomarker rate of change. Llibre has research funding from the World Federation of Neurology and Alzheimer Association