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NYU School of Global Public Health I Fourth Annual Symposium
Pathways into Quantitative Aging Research Summer Program
Date: Thursday, July 18, 2024
Program Schedule:
9:00 AM: Breakfast & Welcome
9:30 AM: Keynote Speech: Dr. Lisa L. Barnes
11:00 AM: Student Presentations:
12:00-1:00 PM: Lunch
1:00 PM: Lightning Talks
1:30 PM: PQAR Alumni Panel
2:45 PM: Student Presentations
NYU School of Global Public Health (708 Broadway New York, NY 10003)
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Keynote speaker: Lisa L. Barnes, PhD, the Alla V. and Solomon Jesmer Professor of Gerontology and Geriatric Medicine, Associate Director & Cognitive Neuropsychologist, Rush Alzheimer’s Disease Center, Rush University Medical Center
Dr. Lisa Barnes is the Alla V. and Solomon Jesmer Professor of Gerontology and Geriatric Medicine and a cognitive neuropsychologist within the Rush Alzheimer’s Disease Center at Rush University Medical Center. She is also the Associate Director of the Rush Alzheimer’s Disease Research Center. She received her PhD from the University of Michigan in biopsychology and completed a post-doctoral fellowship in cognitive neuroscience at the University of California, Davis. She has been a faculty member at Rush since 1999. Dr. Barnes has received many NIH grants and has published over 300 manuscripts. Her research interests include disparities in chronic diseases of aging, cognitive decline, and risk factors for Alzheimer’s disease. She directs a community-based study of older African Americans, called the Minority Aging Research Study (MARS), which has been funded by the National Institute on Aging since 2004. She advocates for recruitment of under-represented groups into clinical studies and has received many awards and fellowships in recognition of her contributions to aging among diverse older adults.
Abstract
I will share my path from being a student in cognitive neuroscience to holding an Endowed Chair in an Alzheimer’s research center, and the pivots that I took along the way. I will then share how I built one of the longest running epidemiologic cohort studies of older Black adults to understand race- relevant factors that influence aging trajectories and cognitive decline. I will discuss key risk factors and efforts to obtain brain autopsies in my cohort, and implications for aging research more generally.