Wei Xu attended the 16th International Medical Geography Symposium held in Vancouver, BC last July, 2015. He presented, a paper, “Mortality attributed to Alzheimer’s disease (AD) and its association with socio-contextual factors in the contiguous United States, 2000-2010.”

He also received travel awards from Association of American Geographers (AAG) Health and Medical Geography Special Group and Mary Joe Read Award by the Department of Geography at University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee.