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2026 Slides<\/h3>
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February 19th, 2026: <\/strong>Bryan James<\/a> & Ali Moghtaderi<\/a>, “Predictors and consequences of the timing and accuracy of clinical dementia diagnosis”<\/p>\n

March 5th, 2026: <\/strong>Aaron Scheffler, “Bayesian Inference for Alzheimer’s Disease Progression Models – Promises and Challenges in Uncertainty Propagation”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

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2025 Slides<\/h3>
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May 15th, 2025:\u00a0<\/strong>Calvin Colvin, “The relationship between income trajectory during prime working years with cognition in later life using data from the Health and Retirement Study”<\/span><\/p>\n

May 1st, 2025: <\/strong>Sarah Farias, “The measurement of everyday function in older adults”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

April 17th, 2025:\u00a0<\/strong>Timothy Daly, “Opportunities and Challenges for Public Brain Health”<\/a><\/p>\n

April 3rd, 2025:\u00a0<\/strong>Natalia Gomes Goncalves, “Cognitive reserve in Latin America: evidence from Mexico and Brazil”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

See Video<\/a><\/p>\n

February 20th, 2025:\u00a0<\/span><\/strong>Renaud La Joie & Ganna Blazhenets,\u00a0<\/span>\u201cHarmonization of amyloid-PET quantification for ADRD research: putting Centiloids to the test\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n

Part 2 of Slides<\/a><\/p>\n

February 6th, 2025<\/strong>: Sebastian Walsh, “The value of a population-level lens in dementia research: examples from prevention and treatment”\u00a0<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

See Video<\/a><\/p>\n

January 16th, 2025: <\/strong>Miguel Arce and Emily Brice\u00f1o-Abreu, “Cross-national harmonization of the Harmonized Cognitive Assessment Protocol (HCAP)”<\/a><\/p>\n

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2024 Slides<\/h3>

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November 21st, 2024:<\/strong> Yingyan Wu, “How to assess cognitive decline when test administration changes across study waves? Harmonizing cognitive scores across waves in CHARLS”<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

See Video<\/a><\/p>\n

October 17th, 2024:<\/strong> Mary Thoma, “Are we there yet? <\/span>Estimating the waves of follow-up required for stable estimates in cognitive aging research”<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

See Video<\/a><\/p>\n

October 3rd, 2024:<\/strong> Dr. Vijaya Kolachalama, “Multimodal machine learning for differential dementia diagnosis”<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

See Video<\/a><\/p>\n

September 19th, 2024:<\/strong> Dr. Roopal Desai & Dr. Verena Zuber, “Examining the Lancet Commission on risk factors for dementia using Mendelian Randomization”<\/a><\/p>\n

See Video<\/a><\/p>\n

September 5th, 2024: <\/strong>Dr. Phil Cantu (no slides available)<\/p>\n

See Video<\/a><\/p>\n

May 16th, 2024:<\/strong> Dr. Gabriel L. Schwartz, “Housing insecurity, foreclosure, and cognitive aging”<\/a><\/p>\n

See Video<\/a><\/p>\n

April 18th, 2024: <\/strong>Dr. Byron Jaeger, “Oblique and causal random forests”<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

See Video<\/a><\/p>\n

March 21st, 2024:<\/strong> Dr. Erin Ferguson, “Robustness of effect estimates to varying model specifications”<\/a><\/p>\n

See Video<\/a><\/p>\n

March 7th, 2024:<\/strong> Dr. Joan Monin, “Systolic Blood Pressure During Conversations between Older Adults Living with Cognitive Impairment and their Children: Associations with Attachment Security”<\/a><\/p>\n

See Video<\/a><\/p>\n

February 29th, 2024:<\/strong> Dr. Eleanor Hayes-Larson, \u201cImplications of timescale choice for estimated effects of exposures on rate of cognitive change among older adults: Results from the 2022 MELODEM Data Workshop\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n

See Video<\/a><\/p>\n

February 1st, 2024:\u00a0<\/strong> DEBATE, Dr. David Wallon, “Are anti-amyloid immunotherapies’disease modifying’ or symptomatic treatments for Alzheimer’s disease?”<\/a> & Dr. Vincent Planche “Are anti-amyloid immunotherapies disease-modifying or symptomatic treatment for early AD?”<\/a><\/p>\n

See Video<\/a><\/p>\n

January 18th, 2024:<\/strong>\u00a0 Dr. Maria Glymour,\u00a0 “Evidence Triangulation and Dementia Research”<\/a><\/p>\n

See Video<\/a><\/p>\n

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2023 Slides<\/h3>
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December 14th, 2023:\u00a0<\/strong>Dr. Rachel Whitmer (no slides available)<\/span><\/p>\n

See Video<\/a><\/p>\n

November 30th, 2023:<\/strong> Dr. Zachary Kunicki, \u201cUnderstanding Normative Cognitive Aging\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n

See Video<\/a><\/p>\n

November 16th, 2023: <\/strong>Dr. Carole Dufouil (no slides available)<\/p>\n

See Video<\/a><\/p>\n

October 19th, 2023:<\/strong> Dr. Aayush Khadka, “Quantile regressions for quantifying heterogeneities in the education-cognition relationship”<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

See Video<\/a><\/p>\n

October 5th, 2023:<\/strong> Dr. Paloma Rojas-Saunero, “Effect of incident stroke on the risk of dementia over a period of 10 years of follow-up in a cohort of Asian American and white older adults in California”\u00a0<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

See Video<\/a><\/p>\n

September 21st, 2023:<\/strong> Dr. Suzanne Judd, “REGARDS and RURAL – Cohorts for Potential Dementia Questions”<\/a> & “Cognitive Impairment in REGARDS”<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

See Video<\/a><\/p>\n

May 4th, 2023:<\/strong> Dr. Elizabeth Rose Mayeda, \u201cHow much does amyloid burden predict memory decline at the population level? A transportability analysis\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n

April 20th, 2023:<\/strong> Dr. Jennifer J. Manly, \u201cMethods for Estimating National Prevalence of Dementia and MCI from the Harmonized Cognitive Assessment Protocol Project\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n

See Video<\/a><\/p>\n

April 6th, 2023:<\/strong> Dr. Maude Wagner, “Using Longitudinal Continuous Measures to Capture Key Complementary Dimensions of Cognitive Resilience to AD Neuropathology”<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

See Video<\/a><\/p>\n

March 16th, 2023:<\/strong> Dr. Roch A. Nianogo, “Risk Factors Associated with Alzheimer Disease and Related Dementias by Sex and Race and Ethnicity in the US”<\/a><\/p>\n

See Video<\/a><\/p>\n

March 2nd, 2023:<\/strong> Dr. Lon S. Schneider, “Lecanemab: effectiveness, approval, and why it takes a village”<\/a><\/p>\n

See Video<\/a><\/p>\n

February 16th, 2023:<\/strong> Dr. Terry M Therneau, “Competing risks and the Fine-Gray model”<\/a><\/p>\n

See Video<\/a><\/p>\n

February 2nd, 2023:<\/strong> Dr. Erin E. Bennett, “Methodological considerations in target trial emulation using cohort studies: estimating the effect of antihypertensive medication initiation on incident dementia in ARIC, CHS, and HRS”<\/a><\/p>\n

See Video<\/a><\/p>\n

January 19th, 2023:<\/strong> Dr. Marina Sirota, “Leveraging Molecular and Clinical Data to Better Understand Alzheimer\u2019s Disease”<\/a><\/p>\n

See Video<\/a><\/p>\n

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2022 Slides<\/h3>
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December 15th, 2022:<\/strong> Dr. Sepideh Modrek, & Dr. David Rehkopf, “Long-term effects of Local Area New Deal Work-Relief in Childhood on Educational and Cognitive Outcomes over the Life Course”<\/a><\/p>\n

See Video<\/a><\/p>\n

December 1st, 2022:<\/strong> Dr. Tara E. Jenson, “Environmental Cadmium Exposures, Cognitive Performance in Older Adults, and Subsequent Alzheimer’s Disease Mortality”<\/a><\/p>\n

See Video<\/a><\/p>\n

November 3rd, 2022:<\/strong> Dr. Tianhao Wang, “The ‘cognitive clock’: A novel indicator of brain health”<\/a><\/p>\n

See Video<\/a><\/p>\n

October 20th, 2022:<\/strong> Dr. Emma Nichols, “The\u00a0<\/span>use of algorithms for the identification of incident dementia: challenges and potential biases”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

See Video<\/a><\/p>\n

October 6th, 2022:<\/strong> Dr. John (Rob) Warren, “High School & Beyond: Turning an Education Cohort Study into an ADRD Study”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

See Video<\/a><\/p>\n

September 15th, 2022:<\/strong> Dr. Marcia P Jimenez & Dr. L. Paloma Rojas-Saunero, \u201cRacial and ethnic differences in the risk of dementia under hypothetical blood-pressure-lowering interventions: The Multi-Ethnic Study of Atherosclerosis<\/span>\u201d<\/a><\/a><\/p>\n

See Video<\/a><\/p>\n

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2021 Slides<\/h3>
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November 18th, 2021:<\/strong> Dr. Madhav Thambisetty, “From Mechanisms to Medicines: realizing the DREAM of an Alzheimer\u2019s cure”<\/a><\/p>\n

See Video<\/a><\/p>\n

October 28th, 2021:<\/strong> Dr. Venexia Walker, “Predicting drug repurposing opportunities <\/span>for Alzheimer\u2019s disease prevention <\/span>using genome-wide association study data”<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

See Video<\/a><\/p>\n

October 8th, 2021:<\/strong> Dr. Maria Glymour, “Introduction to using Directed Acyclic Graphs in dementia research”<\/a><\/p>\n

See Video<\/a><\/p>\n

September 15th, 2021:<\/strong> Dr. Ryan Andrews, “Meditations on Mediation Analysis”<\/a><\/p>\n

September 2nd, 2021:<\/strong> Dr. Michelle Odden, “Collider Stratification Bias in Studies of Dementia: Mountain or Molehill?”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

July 15th, 2021:<\/strong> Dr. Thomas Nedelec, “Data-driven identification of health conditions associated with incident Alzheimer\u2019s disease dementia risk: a 15 years follow-up cohort from electronic health records in France and the United Kingdom”<\/a><\/p>\n

See Video<\/a><\/p>\n

June 3rd, 2021:<\/strong> Dr. L. Paloma Rojas-Saunero, “Dissecting the causal question underlying the association between cancer and dementia”<\/a><\/p>\n

April 29th, 2021:\u00a0<\/strong>“Re-orienting to MELODEM” (no slides available)<\/p>\n

See Video<\/a><\/p>\n

April 1st, 2021:<\/strong> Dr. Zach Baucom, “Using State Space Models for Longitudinal Neuropsychological Outcomes”<\/a><\/p>\n

See Video<\/a><\/p>\n

March 18th, 2021:<\/strong> Dr. Lon Schneider, “Methodological features and FDA’s regulatory guidance on aducanumab and Alzheimer drug development”<\/a><\/p>\n

See Video<\/a><\/p>\n

March 4th, 2021:<\/strong>\u00a0Dr. Terry Therneau (no slides available)<\/span><\/p>\n

See Video<\/a><\/p>\n

February 18th, 2021:<\/strong>\u00a0Dr. Andrew Stokes (no slides available)<\/span><\/p>\n

See Video<\/a><\/p>\n

February 11th, 2021:<\/strong>\u00a0Dr. Julie Zissimopoulos (no slides available)<\/span><\/p>\n

See Video<\/a><\/p>\n

February 4th, 2021:<\/strong>\u00a0Dr. Justina Avila-Rieger (no slides available)<\/span><\/p>\n

See Video<\/a><\/p>\n

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2020 Slides<\/h3>
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December 10th, 2020:<\/strong>\u00a0Dr. Maria Corrada & Dr. Sevil Yasar (no slides available)<\/span><\/p>\n

See Video<\/a><\/p>\n

December 3rd, 2020:<\/strong>\u00a0Dr. Eric Tchetgen Tchetgen (no slides available)<\/span><\/p>\n

See Video<\/a><\/p>\n

October 15th, 2020:<\/strong> Dr. Deborah Blacker & Dr. Sudeshna Seshadri, \u201cTowards Real-World Data for Dementia Studies: Use of machine-learning to improve metrics\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n

July 9th, 2020:<\/strong> Dr. Bryan James, “Implications of covid for dementia researchers”<\/a><\/p>\n

See Video<\/a><\/p>\n

May 7th, 2020:<\/strong> Dr. Jonathan Jackson, “The Challenge of Health Equity in Clinical Research: Towards a Quantifiable Science of Inclusion”<\/a><\/p>\n

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