Honoree Blake Shelton will be joined by a number of stars at the Las Vegas fundraising gala, including Emmy and Tony Award winner Kristin Chenoweth.
Cleveland Clinic Lou Ruvo Center for Brain Health
The building in downtown Las Vegas was designed by a world-famous architect.
Gwen Vaughn took care of her mother with Parkinson’s at home until the disease progressed to where Nancy needed to enter a memory care facility. Then Gwen herself was diagnosed with the disease at age 48.
Maria Shriver, Women’s Alzheimer’s Movement’s founder and internationally recognized broadcast journalist, led a group of dignitaries hosting the event Wednesday.
The university and clinic have received five more years of funding from the National Institutes of Health to support Southern Nevada’s first Center of Biomedical Research Excellence.
Las Vegas is now the home to the nation’s first center focused specifically on preventing Alzheimer’s in women.
It was a medical board meeting like any other, except that an NFL owner was seated at the table and his team’s logo was splashed all over the room.