Leadership
Ian Kremer
Executive Director
Ian N. Kremer, JD, has worked on federal, state and local dementia policy since 1996. Since 2012, Kremer has served as Executive Director of the LEAD Coalition (Leaders Engaged on Alzheimer’s Disease: http://www.leadcoalition.org) the uniting voice of over 200 member and allied organizations. The LEAD Coalition accelerates transformational progress in care and support to enrich the quality of life of those with dementia and their caregivers, detection and diagnosis, and research leading to prevention, effective treatment, and cures. The LEAD Coalition has helped to secure historic funding increases for the National Institutes of Health (NIH), expand Medicare services for people with dementia and protect dementia-relevant components of Medicaid and the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, expand the role of people with dementia and their care partners in medical product development, build a nation-wide network of dementia-friendly communities, and worked with a dozen federal agencies to overcome health disparities, clarify regulatory pathways, combat elder abuse, and improve cognitive impairment detection and diagnosis, clinical care, and access to home and community-based services.
Kremer serves or has served on the following steering committees, boards, or advisory committees:
- Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) Medicare Evidence Development & Coverage Advisory Committee (MEDCAC)
- National Institute on Aging (NIA) National Research Summit on Care, Services, and Supports for Persons with Dementia and Their Caregivers (2017 Summit and 2020 Summit)
- NIA-funded:
- IMbedded Pragmatic AD/ADRD Clinical Trials (IMPACT) Collaboratory
- Hopkins’ Economics of Alzheimer’s Disease and Services (HEADS) Center (Johns Hopkins University)
- Dementia Care Study (UCLA)
- Community Care Network for Dementia (CaN-D) (Emory University)
- WeCareAdvisor Study (Drexel University)
- Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)-funded:
- BOLD Public Health Center of Excellence on Early Detection of Dementia (New York University School of Medicine)
- BOLD Public Health Center of Excellence on Dementia Caregiving (University of Minnesota)
- American Indian and Alaska Native Resource Center for Brain Health (International Association for Indigenous Aging)
- CDC Healthy Brain Initiative Roadmap (2018-2023 and 2023-2027)
- Public Policy & Aging Report editorial board
- Alzheimer’s Disease Patient and Caregiver Engagement (AD PACE) initiative
- Digital Medicine Society (DiMe) ADRD Digital Measures Development project
- Dementia Friendly America initiative
- Alzheimer’s Association Roundtable on Dementia Care Navigation
- Gerontological Society of America Workgroup on Cognitive Impairment Detection and Earlier Diagnosis
- Dementia Alliance International
- Davos Alzheimer’s Collaborative Champion’s Cabinet
- Brain Health Partnership
- Alzheimer’s Disease Partnership for Evidence and Value (AD EVAL)
- Adira Foundation Board of Directors
- International Collaboration for Real-World Evidence in Alzheimer’s Disease in the US (ICARE-AD-US) Study
- PCORI Dementia Research Methods project
Kremer was an external reviewer for the 2021 National Academies of Science, Engineering, and Medicine (NASEM) report, “Meeting the Challenge of Caring for Persons Living with Dementia and Their Care Partners and Caregivers: A Way Forward” and a 2024 panelist for the NASEM Committee on Research Priorities for Preventing and Treating Alzheimer’s Disease and Related Dementias. He holds degrees from Washington University in Saint Louis and the University of Michigan School of Law.