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UC Memory Disorders Center
Heimanns Step Forward as Donors for Alzheimer's Chair
Thursday, May 12, 2011
CINCINNATI—The numbers associated with Alzheimer’s disease are staggering enough—more than 5 million Americans diagnosed, at a total cost of $172 billion for care in 2010. But it was the human cost that motivated Bob and Sandy Heimann to step forward as the donors who helped make the Memory Disorders Center at the University of Cincinnati (UC) Neuroscience Institute possible.
"We want to make a difference,” Sandy Heimann said at Thursday’s official launch of the center at the UC Physicians Office in West Chester, after telling attendees about her mother, who has Alzheimer’s.
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The UC Neuroscience Institute, a regional center of excellence, is dedicated to patient care, research, education, and the development of new treatments for stroke, brain and spinal tumors, epilepsy, traumatic brain and spinal injury, Alzheimer’s disease, Parkinson’s disease, multiple sclerosis, neuromuscular disorders, disorders of the senses (swallowing, voice, hearing, pain, taste and smell), and psychiatric conditions (bipolar disorder, schizophrenia, and depression).
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