Welcome Mr. Jan Runar Eliassen to serve as the Ambassador of the NO-AD ‘User Representative Comittee’

01 Feburay 2024, Oslo, Norway

Today, The Norwegian National anti-Alzheimer’s Disease Network (NO-AD), supported by Nasjonalforeningen for folkehelsen / The Norwegian Health Association, has appointed Mr. Jan Runar Eliassen as the Ambassador of the NO-AD ‘User Representative Comittee’. Mr. Jan Runar Eliassen (49/50) was diagnosed with dementia at 45 years of age (reference), and since then he has been actively involved in public dissemination of the knowledge of dementia as well as in raising funding and participating in social activities to fight against dementia.

Mr. Jan Runar Eliassen participated in the award-winning TV series (filmed by the Norwegian national TV station NRK) ‘Dementia Choir’ (reference) Season 1 and Season 2. Mr. Jan Runar Eliassen will be working with NO-AD coordinators Drs. Evandro Fei Fang (UiO) and Asgeir Kobro-Flatmoen (NTNU) in disseminating the latest scientific discoveries of dementia to the general population.

Jan-Runar Eliassen and Mina Gerhardsen (Secretary General of the Norwegian Health Association)
FOTO: ANNE ELISABETH NESS / NTB

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  1. Brilliant idea!

    Jon Storm-Mathisen

    Jon Storm-Mathisen MD PhD Senior Professor Division of Anatomy, Department of Molecular Medicine, Institute of Basic Medical Sciences (IMB) & CMBN/SERTA Healthy Brain Ageing Centre (HBAC) University of Oslo Post: POBox 1105 Blindern, N-0317 Oslo, Norway Visit: Domus Medica, Room 0283, Sognsvannsveien 9, 0372 Oslo Tel: +47 97193044 mobile Email: jonsm@uio.no https://www.med.uio.no/imb/english/people/aca/jonsm/index.htmlhttps://www.med.uio.no/imb/english/people/aca/jonsm/index.html https://folk.universitetetioslo.no/jonsm/https://folk.universitetetioslo.no/jonsm/ Co-founder of NO-Age – https://noage100.com/people Inaugural chairman of the Kavli Prize Committee in Neuroscience https://www.kavliprize.org/prizes/neuroscience/2008#committee-membershttps://www.kavliprize.org/prizes/neuroscience/2008#committee-members

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