{"id":3873,"date":"2022-06-01T13:11:59","date_gmt":"2022-06-01T13:11:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lab.vanderbilt.edu\/rasr-lab\/?p=3873"},"modified":"2026-05-05T11:19:52","modified_gmt":"2026-05-05T11:19:52","slug":"vmac-lunch-learn-african-americans-alzheimers-disease","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lab.vanderbilt.edu\/rasr-lab\/2022\/06\/01\/vmac-lunch-learn-african-americans-alzheimers-disease\/","title":{"rendered":"VMAC Lunch &amp; Learn &#8211; African Americans &amp; Alzheimer&#8217;s Disease"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>June is Alzheimer&#8217;s and Brain Awareness Month<\/strong>. Did you know that African Americans are <u>twice as likely<\/u> to develop Alzheimer\u2019s disease? Join VMAC for its monthly\u00a0<em>Lunch and Learn<\/em>, <strong><em>\u201cAfrican Americans and Alzheimer\u2019s\u201d<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0at this virtual event on Wednesday, June 15, 2022, at 12:00 pm and learn more about how health disparities in Alzheimer&#8217;s disease are affecting the African American community. Guest presenter\u00a0will be <strong>Meharry Medical College\u00a0<\/strong>faculty member and researcher <strong>Dr. Tameka Clemons<\/strong><strong>. <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Register:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/nam04.safelinks.protection.outlook.com\/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fbit.ly%2FAAAabaw&amp;data=05%7C01%7Cconstance.bishop%40vanderbilt.edu%7C2fa0499652624909f8b908da434bf862%7Cba5a7f39e3be4ab3b45067fa80faecad%7C0%7C0%7C637896290835042541%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&amp;sdata=HHBFRE5daIQ3AhUL5gyzrbf2FHdTzYYhDXfrupTsJNA%3D&amp;reserved=0\">https:\/\/bit.ly\/AAAabaw<\/a> or click on the image below. \u00a0<em>(All registrations will receive a recording of the presentation.)<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>June is Alzheimer&#8217;s and Brain Awareness Month. Did you know that African Americans are twice as likely to develop Alzheimer\u2019s disease? Join VMAC for its monthly\u00a0Lunch and Learn, \u201cAfrican Americans and Alzheimer\u2019s\u201d\u00a0at this virtual event on Wednesday, June 15, 2022, at 12:00 pm and learn more about how health disparities in Alzheimer&#8217;s disease are affecting [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":167,"featured_media":4949,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3873","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-archives"],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/lab.vanderbilt.edu\/rasr-lab\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/100\/2022\/06\/June-2022.png","ACF":{"topper_style":"default","topper_overline":"","topper_title":"","topper_intro":"","default_topper_background_type":"none","posts_show_author":"no"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lab.vanderbilt.edu\/rasr-lab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3873","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lab.vanderbilt.edu\/rasr-lab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lab.vanderbilt.edu\/rasr-lab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lab.vanderbilt.edu\/rasr-lab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/167"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lab.vanderbilt.edu\/rasr-lab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3873"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/lab.vanderbilt.edu\/rasr-lab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3873\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3882,"href":"https:\/\/lab.vanderbilt.edu\/rasr-lab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3873\/revisions\/3882"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lab.vanderbilt.edu\/rasr-lab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4949"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lab.vanderbilt.edu\/rasr-lab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3873"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lab.vanderbilt.edu\/rasr-lab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3873"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lab.vanderbilt.edu\/rasr-lab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3873"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}