Alzheimer's Center

Since 2018, the Alzheimer's Center has garnered more than $7.2 million in grant funding from the National Institutes of Health.

The Dale and Deborah Smith Center for Alzheimer’s Research and Treatment at SIU Medicine provides clinical care, research and community programs throughout Illinois. Since 1986, its employees have diagnosed, treated and educated Illinois families with Alzheimer’s and other forms of dementia. In the past year, the center, along with its Memory and Aging Network, has served more than 4,000 patients and their families.

PATIENT CARE

For better quality of life

Around the world, more than 50 million individuals are living with Alzheimer's disease and other forms of dementia. It's more deadly than breast cancer and prostate cancer combined; one in three seniors dies with Alzheimer's or another form of dementia.

While the researchers at the Dale and Debra Smith Center for Alzheimer's Research and Treatment investigate new and better ways to prevent, slow and cure dementia-related diseases, our team is caring for and supporting patients and their families through free, therapeutic, evidence-based programming to improve quality of life.

Music and Memory

Art Express

Opening Minds Through Art

Stepping Up

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Your gifts make a difference

We have big ideas, big hearts and big goals. We prepare future doctors and health care providers who are second-to-none in their abilities and compassion. We're a powerful presence in our community: a champion for the health and well-being of the people of central and southern Illinois. And we make breakthroughs - scientific and educational - with an influence far beyond the region. Your support is an investment in knowledge and care that can impact health for generations.

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RESEARCH

Clinical trials

The Dale and Deborah Smith Center for Alzheimer’s Research and Treatment at SIU Medicine is now enrolling patients with early-onset Alzheimer’s disease to help determine if an investigational drug is effective at treating this debilitating condition. The study will assess the safety and efficacy of donanemab in patients with early symptoms of Alzheimer's.

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Announcing our new name

RESEARCH, PATIENT CARE

Gift offers renewed hope

A major gift to Southern Illinois University School of Medicine will transform the health care of people throughout Illinois and beyond. Dale and Deborah Smith recently donated a substantial financial gift to the Center for Alzheimer’s Disease and Related Disorders at SIU Medicine to expand research, enhance programming and improve care for people with Alzheimer’s disease and assist their caregivers.

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A disease without a cure

Alzheimer's disease impacts families everywhere. Here at SIU Medicine, the newly renamed Dale and Deborah Smith Center for Alzheimer's Research and Treatment is trying to find ways to slow the progression of the disease. Learn more about our research and programs related to Alzheimer's in this Medicine Minute with Erin Hascup, PhD, director of the center.