An Alzheimer's Researcher's Dream

America Needs All The Alzheimer’s Disease Researchers We Can Get.  Support Esmat Fathi’s Dream Of Becoming One.

Three days after Trump’s travel ban on people and refugees of seven countries from entering the United States,  Esmat Fathi, according to the February 3rd  article on Huffingtonpost.com, packed her suitcase and was ready to leave her home in Iran to start her job as a Alzheimer's Disease researcher, under Dr. Ramin Homayouni at the University of Memphis, Tennessee.  

At the same time, Esmat Fathi was getting messages on her cell phone from friends urging her not to get on her plane and make her journey to America, I had just made a trip of my own. I traveled from my home in New Jersey to New York City.   I sat across from Dr. Kramps at
NewYork-Presbyterian/Weill Cornell Medical Centers’ Alzheimer's Disease and Memory Disorders Program trying to remember the 5 words Dr. Kramps had told me she was going to ask me later on during my 20-minute cognitive assessment. My mind was a total blank, I could only remember 2 out of the 5 words.  What was happening to me I thought?  

What is happening to me is Mild Cognitive Impairment   (MCI) a diagnosis that profoundly increases my risk of developing Alzheimer’s disease.  I’m 52 years old stuck in limbo between what my memory and other cognitive skills should be compared to my peers and the disease Ismat Fathi was coming to America in hopes of being part of finding therapeutic treatments for and even better curing.

I need Ms. Fathi here.  All Americans need her here since most of us either have been or will be touched in some way by Alzheimer's Disease in their lifetime. The United States needs every bright minded, highly skilled, and compassionate hearted people willing to be part of the noblest of occupations, medical research, regardless of where they come from.

Join me in encouraging and supporting Esmat Fathi to try again and come to America next week while a court has temporarily halted the travel ban.  I’ve set up this page to raise the $1,200 that will cover her cost of the additional fees and travel expenses she will encounter when making her trip again.

To learn more about Alzheimer's Disease check out the
Alzheimer's Association website.