Is It Normal Aging or Dementia?

Every morning, you go for a run around the neighborhood. Today, as you’re on your way home at the end of the run, you can’t remember whether to turn left or right. Is this an age-related memory lapse or the first signs of something more serious? While many people experience occasional memory lapses as they […]

Unexpected Symptoms: How To Manage Personality Changes in Dementia

Written by Being Patient Personality changes are not often talked about as a common symptom of dementia, so when these changes start to appear in a friend, care subject or loved one, they can seem abrupt, surprising, and disarming. While new differences in behavior — from sudden anger, irritation, anxiety, to, even, usual sexual behavior […]

What If Your Smartphone Could Detect Cognitive Decline?

Written by Being Patient Detecting Alzheimer’s early is crucial because it allows people to get new treatments, participate in clinical trials, and make positive lifestyle changes. We now know that our voice might be the first thing that changes before any other symptoms. And so voice biomarkers, as an early diagnostic tool, might be coming […]

Eli Lilly’s Kisunla for Alzheimer’s Hits the U.S. Market

Written by Being Patient The FDA approved Eli Lilly’s disease-modifying drug Kisunla (generic name donanemab) on July 2nd, a few weeks after the drug was unanimously recommended for approval by a committee of independent advisors to the FDA.  Kisunla joins Leqembi as one of two Alzheimer’s monoclonal antibody drugs approved by the FDA in the […]

Our Studies

Biomarkers Innovative translational research uses biomarkers to accelerate or aid in diagnosis or monitoring and provide insight into “personalized” medicine. A biomarker is a quantifiable biological parameter (such as blood pressure, heart rate, blood and genetic test, and x-rays) that are measured and evaluated over time as an indicator of normal biological, pathogenic, or pharmacologic […]

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StoryTeller by Novoic Did you know with just a few minutes you can check your brain health? With Storyteller by Novoic, you can take a quick 10 minute assessment in the comfort of your own home and find out about your brain health. Click the link to get started today! Brain Health Quiz /*! elementor […]

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Storyteller by Novoic Did you know with just a few minutes you can check your brain health? With Storyteller by Novoic, you can take a quick 10 minute assessment in the comfort of your own home and find out about your brain health. Click the link to get started today! Brain Health Quiz /*! elementor […]

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StoryTeller by Novoic Did you know with just a few minutes you can check your brain health? With Storyteller by Novoic, you can take a quick 10 minute assessment in the comfort of your own home and find out about your brain health. Click the link to get started today! Brain Health Quiz /*! elementor […]

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StoryTeller by Novoic Did you know with just a few minutes you can check your brain health? With Storyteller by Novoic, you can take a quick 10 minute assessment in the comfort of your own home and find out about your brain health. Click the link to get started today! Brain Health Quiz StoryTeller by […]

Our Studies

Storyteller by Novoic Did you know with just a few minutes you can check your brain health? With Storyteller by Novoic, you can take a quick 10 minute assessment in the comfort of your own home and find out about your brain health. Click the link to get started today! Brain Health Quiz /*! elementor […]

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Melissa Belardo, APRN

Clinical Investigator

Melissa Belardo, is a certified family nurse practitioner (FNP-BC), joins K2 Medical Research with more than a decade of clinical experience. She has served as an investigator in over 20 trials. Prior to clinical research, she held roles in gastroenterology, hepatology, and nurse education.

Melissa’s academic background includes a Bachelor of Science in Nursing from Adventist University, followed by a master’s degree in Family Nurse Practitioner from Georgetown University.

Melissa is a native of the US Virgin Islands’ and is fluent in both English and Spanish; Melissa has lived in central Florida for the past twenty years. When she’s not at work, you can find her volunteering at her local church and spending time with family.