Community Partners & Sponsors
Intermountain Health is the largest nonprofit health system in the Intermountain West. They are dedicated to creating healthier communities and helping their patients thrive. By partnering with their patients and communities, providing expert care closer to home, and making great health more affordable, Intermountain Health is reimagining healthcare to help more people get and stay well. Their values center on being leaders in clinical excellence, serving with empathy, collaborating to keep people well, learning and acting with purpose, and building community through teamwork and belonging. Intermountain Health's commitment to do the right thing for the patients and communities they serve is foundational to everything they do.
Intermountain Health is partnering with the USU Brain Health Fair to provide booths focused on heart health, stroke response, physical therapy, vasculature injury management, and healthy aging. Dr. Landon Watts, a gerentologist with Intermountain Health at Logan Regional Hospital, will host a panel discussion about brain health maintenance and warning signs of dementia in older adults.
The Alzheimer's Disease and Dementia Research Center (ADRC) at Utah State University supports research, supportive services, workforce training, and education across the state of Utah. The ADRC is committed to building a collaborative research infrastructure where individuals throughout the state of Utah can be involved and informed in dementia research, learn more about best practices in care, and find resources for emotional and practical support.
As a sponsor of the USU Brain Health Fair, the ADRC will offer several booths with topics ranging from MIND Diet demonstrations, caregiver support, and recent discoveries in the etiology, diagnosis, and treatment of Alzheimer's disease and dementia. Director of the Alzheimer's Disease and Dementia Resource Center Beth Fauth, Ph.D. will host two pannel discussions with Dr. Landon Watts, IHC gerentologist at Logan Regional Hospital.
The Sorenson Legacy Foundation Center for Clinical Excellence integrates research, academics, and clinical services to enable student training, interdisciplinary research among faculty and clinicians, and comprehensive clinical services for local and statewide residents. The mission of the center is to provide clinical training for graduate students and to serve the community across a variety of disciplines. Clinical services offered include audiology, speech-language pathology, autism intervention, dietetics and nutrition, marriage and family therapy, clinical rehabilitation counseling, and psychology. In addition to these healthcare-related services, housing and financial counseling services are also offered in the Sorenson Center.
The Sorenson Center has partnered with the USU Brain Health Fair to host this annual event and bring awareness to their clinical services offered on a low-cost sliding scale fee, allowing individuals to receive services who otherwise might not be able to afford them. This center will host six booths focused on hearing and balance, speech and language, mental health, dementia caregiver resources, symptoms and interventions for cognitive decline, and an interactive dementia VR experience.
The students of the Emma Eccles Jones College of Education, Health, & Human Sciences (CEHHS) seek degrees and certificates in a wide variety of education, health, and human services specialties, united in their mission to enrich the lives of others through research, education, and service. The college is proud to enable individuals, families, communities, and broader society to flourish through advancements in education and wellbeing.
The college is sponsoring the USU Brain Health Fair through a variety of booths focused on the research, services, and innovations of students and faculty relating to lifelong brain health. Booths include physical wellbeing, neuromonitoring, healthy aging, assistive techology, mindfulness, and many more.
