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Is dementia a vaccine-preventable condition? with Dr. Dawn Bowdish

Join us for another installment of the popular Optimal Aging Portal webinar series, featuring guest speaker Dr. Dawn Bowdish, a professor with the Department of Medicine and Executive Director of the Firestone Institute for Respiratory Health.

For many, dementia is one of the scariest parts of aging. While habits like exercising, eating well, and staying socially active help reduce risk, they require long-term effort. What if lowering your risk by about 20% could be as simple as a couple of visits to your doctor or pharmacist? New research shows that vaccines for shingles, influenza, pneumonia, and more not only protect against infection but also reduce the risk of dementia and other conditions.

Don’t miss this opportunity to learn about the science behind these findings and how vaccines play a role in healthy aging.

About our speaker:

Dr. Dawn Bowdish is a professor with the Department of Medicine and Executive Director of the Firestone Institute for Respiratory Health.  She is a member of the McMaster Institute for Research on Aging (MIRA), the McMaster Immunology Research Centre (MIRC) and the Michael G. DeGroote Institute for Infectious Disease Research (IIDR). She also holds associate memberships with the departments of Biochemistry & Biomedical Sciences and Chemistry & Chemical Biology.  From 2014 to 2024, Bowdish held a Tier 2 Canada Research Chair in Aging and Immunity. Her research has appeared in more than 180 peer-reviewed publications and consists of over 17,000 citations.   She also runs the Bowdish Lab at McMaster where she mentors the next generation of infectious disease researchers. 

This talk is part of the Optimal Aging Portal Webinar Series, a great resource of evidence-based healthy aging information, and is hosted by Dr. Anthony Levinson. All talks are recorded and archived for future viewing.