Dr Yuda Turana is Dean of the Faculty of Medicine, Atma Jaya Catholic University of Indonesia, and lecturer and researcher at the Neurology Department. He is Chairman of the Neurogeriatrics Study Group of the Indonesian Society of Neurologists, on the Board of Trustees of Alzheimer’s Indonesia and on the Advisory Board of ADI Asia Pacific. He was on the working group on ageing, established by the Indonesian Ministry of Health in 2014. He was involved in the creation of Indonesia’s National Dementia plan and was appointed as WHO’s focal point on dementia in Indonesia. His research activities focus on biomarkers and clinical markers of cognitive decline and Alzheimer’s disease.