Adult Changes in Thought Study

ACT Research Symposium 2024

Thank you to all who attended the 11th ACT Research Symposium which was held May 14-15, 2024 on the University of Washington campus in Seattle, WA.

The theme of the Symposium was

"Alzheimer's Disease and dementia biomarkers: current advances, future directions, implications for research".

 

Keynote speaker: Michelle M. Mielke, PhD, Chair of the Department of Epidemiology and Prevention, Professor of Epidemiology, and Professor of Gerontology and Geriatric Medicine, Wake Forest University School of Medicine

 

Information about Symposium

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Did you miss the Symposium or would you like to hear one of the talks again?

Please refer to the list of speaker slides and recordings of talks.

Tuesday, May 14th: Symposium Day 1

Speaker(s)

Topic

Presentation

Michelle Mielke

Keynote:  Alzheimer’s blood-based biomarkers:  ready for prime time?

Slides

Video

Will Bowers, Lily Shapiro

ACT Project 2 presentation: Natural language processing and the medical record: methodological approaches to qualitative research with people with dementia

Slides

Video

Laura Harrington, Sarah Tom

History of Adverse Pregnancy Outcomes and Cognitive Decline

Slides

Video

Victoria Marshe

A human microglial atlas of expression programs in neurodegenerative disease and their transcriptional regulators

Slides

Video

Kacie Deters

Disparities in risk factors for brain aging and ADRD

Slides

Video

Linda McEvoy, Aaron Seitz

ACT Clinical Core presentation; Updates related to recruitment, biorepository, and workgroups

Slides

Video

Shelly Gray, Elizabeth Phelan

Stop Falls Study

Slides

Video

Tim Hohman

Molecular drivers of Alzheimer’s disease resilience through genomic and proteomic analyses

Slides

Video

 

Wednesday, May 15th: Symposium Day 2

Speaker(s)

Topic

Presentation

Cecilia Lee

Tribute to Laura Gibbons

Slides

Video

Kelly Chang

Advanced diffusion modeling characterizes FLAIR white matter hyperintensities in the ACT prospective neuroimaging cohort

Slides

Video

Maximilian Kobiesa

Quantitative measurements of magnetic resonance angiography decrease with aging and cognitive impairment in the ACT cohort

Slides

Video

Chuxuan Sun

Health care utilization and cost differences across cognitively-defined Alzheimer’s disease subgroups

Slides

Video

Kristen Russ

NCRAD plasma and CSF ADRD biomarkers

Slides

Video

Joshua Sonnen

Airborne metals, neurodegeneration, and dementia in the ACT study

Slides

Video

 

 

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