Slides
2023
January 19th, 2023: Marina Sirota, Bakar Computational Health Sciences Institute, UCSF, “Leveraging Molecular and Clinical Data to Better Understand Alzheimer’s Disease”
2022
December 15th, 2022: Sepideh Modrek, San Francisco State University, Health Equity Institute & David Rehkopf, Stanford University, “Long-term effects of Local Area New Deal Work-Relief in Childhood on Educational and Cognitive Outcomes over the Life Course”
Sepideh Modrek & David Rehkopf
December 1, 2022: Tara E. Jenson, Zilber School of Public Health, University of Wisconsin – Milwaukee, “Environmental Cadmium Exposures, Cognitive Performance in Older Adults, and Subsequent Alzheimer’s Disease Mortality.”
November 3, 2022: Tianhao Wang, Rush Alzheimer’s Disease Center, Rush University Medical Center, “The ‘cognitive clock’: A novel indicator of brain health”
October 20, 2022: Emma Nichols, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, “The use of algorithms for the identification of incident dementia: challenges and potential biases:
October 6, 2022: John (Rob) Warren, Minnesota Population Center, University of Minnesota “High School & Beyond: Turning an Education Cohort Study into an ADRD Study.”
September 15, 2022: Marcia P Jimenez, Boston University & L. Paloma Rojas-Saunero, UCLA “Racial and ethnic differences in the risk of dementia under hypothetical blood-pressure-lowering interventions: The Multi-Ethnic Study of Atherosclerosis.”
Marcia P Jimenez & L. Paloma Rojas-Saunero
2021
November 18, 2021: Madhav Thambisetty, NIA/NIH, “From Mechanisms to Medicines: realizing the DREAM of an Alzheimer’s cure.”
October 28, 2021: Venexia Walker, University of Bristol, “Predicting drug repurposing opportunities for Alzheimer’s disease prevention using genome-wide association study data”
October 8, 2021: Maria Glymous, UCSF, “Introduction to using Directed Acyclic Graphs in dementia research”
September 15, 2021: Ryan Andrews, Boston University School of Public Health, “Meditations on Mediation Analysis”
September 2, 2021: Michelle Odden, Stanford University, “Collider Stratification Bias in Studies of Dementia: Mountain or Molehill?”
July 15, 2021: Thomas Nedelec, Paris Brain Institute, “Data-driven identification of health conditions associated with incident Alzheimer’s disease dementia risk: a 15 years follow-up cohort from electronic health records in France and the United Kingdom”
June 3, 2021: L. Paloma Rojas-Saunero, Erasmus MC, “Dissecting the causal question underlying the association between cancer and dementia”
April 1, 2021: Zach Baucom, Boston University School of Public Health, “Using State Space Models for Longitudinal Neuropsychological Outcomes”
March 18, 2021: Lon Schneider, University of Southern California, “Methodological features and FDA’s regulatory guidance on aducanumab and Alzheimer drug development”
2020
October 15, 2020: Deborah Blacker & Sudeshna Seshadri, Harvard Medical School/Massachusetts General Hospital, “Towards Real-World Data for Dementia Studies: Use of machine-learning to improve metrics”
Sudeshna Seshadri & Deborah Blacker
July 9, 2020: Bryan James, Rush Alzheimer’s Disease Center, “Implications of covid for dementia researchers”
May 7, 2020: Jonathan Jackson, Harvard Medical School/Massachusetts General Hospital, “The Challenge of Health Equity in Clinical Research: Towards a Quantifiable Science of Inclusion.”