Meryl Comer is President and CEO of Geoffrey Beene Foundation Alzheimer’s Initiative, which promotes early diagnosis, virtual innovation challenges and m-health technologies. A founding partner of The Global Alliance on Women’s Brain Health and co-founder of Women Against Alzheimer’s, she serves on the NIH National Advisory Council on Aging(NACA). In 2012, she led the formation of the 21st Century BrainTrust® (21CBT), a non-profit partnership to advance mobile health technologies and brain health. Comer is also co-principal investigator for the PCORI Alzheimer’s Patient/Caregiver Research Network in partnership with the Mayo Clinic, UCSF’s Brain Health Registry, and USAgainstAlzheimer’s Networks.  In 2009, she served on the  bi-partisan Alzheimer’s Study Group, charged with presenting a National Strategic Plan to Congress. A former veteran broadcast journalist, Comer’s New York Times bestseller, Slow Dancing with a Stranger (HarperCollins) supports Alzheimer’s research.