Meryl Comer is a Co-Founder of UsAgainstAlzheimer's and a Co-Founder and Chair of The Global Alliance on Women’s Brain Health. For more than a decade, Ms. Comer served as President and CEO of the Geoffrey Beene Foundation Alzheimer's Initiative. She serves on the NIH National Advisory Council on Aging (NACA). In 2012, she led the formation of the 21st Century BrainTrust®. Comer was also Co-Principal Investigator for the PCORI Alzheimer's Patient/Caregiver Research Network in partnership with the Mayo Clinic, UCSF's Brain Health Registry, and UsAgainstAlzheimer's.  In 2009, she served on the bi-partisan Alzheimer's Study Group, charged with presenting a National Strategic Plan to Congress. A former veteran broadcast journalist, 100% of Comer’s New York Times bestseller, “Slow Dancing with a Stranger,” supports Alzheimer’s research.