Who’s Who
Imelda Theresia
Alzheimer’s Indonesia, Indonesia
Imelda Theresia has extensive experience in project management and implementation for social protection and awareness raising programmes. Theresia is currently a member of the Executive Board of Alzheimer’s Indonesia (ALZI) and Supervisory Board of OnTrack Media Indonesia. She has coordinated many projects and worked for numerous donors and agencies including USAID, European Union, Unicef, UNFPA ACIL and ICMC, AUSAID, World Bank and Grand Challenges Canada. Theresia supports ALZI in finance and campaign strategies, and since 2014, she has worked closely with ALZI to kick-start Alzheimer’s Awareness in Indonesia, achieving a public relations value of US$ 2 million and reaching an estimated 66 million people in one year.
Tara Puspitarini Sani
Alzheimer’s Indonesia, Indonesia
Tara Sani is Scientific Director in Alzheimer’s Indonesia (ALZI). She graduated from Faculty of Medicine, Atma Jaya Catholic University of Indonesia, where she holds an academic post. Her involvement in ALZI includes organising over 140 dementia education sessions for schools and communities in Jakarta as well as educating medical students, healthcare professionals and caregivers through workshops and ADI’s Dementia Care Skills training. She attended ADI’s Alzheimer’s University 2015 in London. In 2016, she received Indonesia Endowment Fund for Education scholarship to pursue MSc Dementia: Causes, Treatments and Research in UCL Institute of Neurology, and volunteered for St. Joseph’s Hospice during her time in London.
Yuda Turana
Atma Jaya Catholic University of Indonesia, Indonesia
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.