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INTERVIEW

10th Anniversary Queen Sofia Foundation Alzheimer Center
Meritxell Valentí, neurologist at the CIEN Foundation

How and in what year does Meritxell Valentí come to the Alz-
heimer Center?

I arrived in the year 2009. I had already collaborated with the Alzheimer
Center through the DEMCAM project coordinated by the La Paz University
Hospital and in which many Memory, Cognitive Disorders and Dementia Units from the Region of Madrid
participated. When the opportunity to work in this Center arose, I applied it in the first moment, because I
find the work carried out in it very interesting.

What do you remember and what would you highlight from the first years at the Alzheimer
Center? And today, what would you highlight?

The beginnings were difficult, they were tough times because it was about setting up a Center of this style,
with the ambition to carry out important projects, but with a long way to go. At present, I see it with a "cruise
speed" acquired and stable, with projects that are beginning to give results and with ambition to start new
projects.

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