Lisa Gwyther, Social Worker and Professor

Lisa P. Gwyther, author of The Alzheimer's Action Plan, is a social worker with 38 years of experience in providing services to the aging and those with Alzheimer's. For 23 years, she's been the education director of the Bryan Alzheimer's Disease Research Center at Duke University in Durham, North Carolina. She is also an associate professor in the Duke University Medical Center Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences and is the immediate past president of the Gerontological Society of America.