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Longtime Rotarian Dave Keller and his wife Kathy recently hosted a cocktail party in their Lewes home to support and celebrate the work of Dr. James Ellison and his staff at ChristianaCare’s Swank Center for Memory Care and Geriatric Consultation - Delaware’s premier medical group leading the fight to bring awareness, care and eventually a cure for Alzheimer’s disease.

Her theories were echoed by Dr. James Ellison, chair of memory care and geriatrics at ChristianaCare Health System in Wilmington, Del.

'To put it in simple terms: Mr A might know Mr B, and Mr B might know Mr C. But that doesn't necessarily mean Mr C knows Mr A,' explains Dr James Ellison, Swank Foundation Endowed Chair in Memory Care and Geriatrics at ChristianaCare Health System in Delaware.

Experts are revisiting the controversial issue of mandatory, age-based cognitive testing to assess physician competence.

ChristianaCare Health System recently welcomed Dr. James M. Ellison, the new Swank Foundation Endowed Chair in Memory Care. Ellison, who joins ChristianaCare from McLean Hospital in Belmont, Massachusetts, where he most recently served as chief psychiatrist and director of the Memory Disorders Clinic, director of the Geriatric Psychiatry Program and program director for the Partners HealthCare Fellowship in Geriatric Psychiatry. Ellison will lead ChristianaCare’s Swank Memory Care Center for patients with Alzheimer’s disease and memory disorders. The Swank Memory Care Center was founded in 2011 with a $1.25 million grant from the Howard W. Swank, Alma K. Swank and Richard Kemper Swank Foundation. The foundation also donated a $2.5 million gift to establish the chair. Ellison earned a master’s degree in public health from the Harvard School of Public Health and a medical degree from the University of California School. He completed his residency in psychiatry at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston.