Texas Alzheimer's Research Consortium Staff PDF Print E-mail


Project Coordinator


Jim Hinds, MPA, is Project Coordinator for the Texas Alzheimer's Research Consortium (TARC). He is Past Chairman of the Texas Council on Alzheimer's Disease and Related Disorders, which oversees the TARC, and Past Board Chair of the Capital of Texas Chapter of the Alzheimer’s Association.

Research Coordinator

Robert Barber, Ph.D., is Project Coordinator for the Texas Alzheimer's Research Consortium. He is Associate Professor at The University of North Texas Health Science Center in Fort Worth as well as an adjunct faculty member of The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center in Dallas.

 




Alzheimer's Facts

From 2000-2006 death rates have declined for most major diseases – heart disease (-11.1 percent), breast cancer (-2.6 percent), prostate cancer (-8.7 percent), stroke (-18.2 percent) and HIV/AIDS (-16.3) while Alzheimer’s disease deaths rose 46.1 percent, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.