Palm Health Foundation, Palm Beach County’s community foundation for health, has announced the appointment of Lisa Kirk Wiese, Ph.D., to its board of trustees. Dr. Wiese, associate professor at Florida Atlantic University’s Christine E. Lynn College of Nursing, joins the 18-member board overseeing the foundation’s mission to inspire and fund solutions for better health in Palm Beach County through community collaboration.
Community collaboration is the hallmark of Dr. Wiese’s research and scholarly work to increase understanding, early detection, and prevention of Alzheimer's disease in rural populations. Before her election to the board of trustees, she partnered with Palm Health Foundation and its Healthier Glades initiative to study and implement solutions to overcome rural health disparities. Dr. Wiese's community-based participatory research in the Glades is led by a multidisciplinary group of local faith-based health educators. This powerful collaboration of community partners, launched through state and federal funding, and now sustained by Palm Health Foundation, is focused on empowering rural, older racially/ethnically diverse adults to age in place through dementia awareness, detection, and management.