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Meryl Comer
Award-Winning Reporter, President/CEO of the Geoffrey Beene Foundation Alzheimer's Initiative
MERYL COMER
President & CEO, Geoffrey Beene Foundation Alzheimer’s Initiative
Meryl Comer is an Emmy award–winning reporter, veteran TV producer and business talk show host. She is president and CEO of the Geoffrey Beene Foundation Alzheimer’s Initiative, which promotes early diagnosis, virtual innovation challenges, mhealth technologies and national public service campaigns like Geoffrey Beene’s Rock Stars of Science™ and HBO’s Alzheimer’s Project.
A co-founder of WomenAgainstAlzheimer’s, Comer is the recipient of the 2015 Lauder Alzheimer’s Drug Discovery Fund “Great Ladies” Award, 2014 Wertheim Global Medical Leadership Award, 2007 Proxmire Award and 2005 Shriver Profiles in Dignity Award. In 2012, she led the formation of the 21st Century BrainTrust® (21CBT), a non-profit partnership to advance mobile health technologies and brain health.
Comer has been the subject of primetime news stories by ABC’s Nightline and the PBS NewsHour with Jim Lehrer.
One hundred percent of proceeds from her new New York Times Bestseller book, Slow Dancing with a Stranger, will support Alzheimer’s research.