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
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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.
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Tuesday, May 14th: Symposium Day 1 |
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Speaker(s) |
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Presentation |
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Michelle Mielke |
Keynote: Alzheimer’s blood-based biomarkers: ready for prime time? |
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Will Bowers, Lily Shapiro |
ACT Project 2 presentation: Natural language processing and the medical record: methodological approaches to qualitative research with people with dementia |
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Laura Harrington, Sarah Tom |
History of Adverse Pregnancy Outcomes and Cognitive Decline |
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Victoria Marshe |
A human microglial atlas of expression programs in neurodegenerative disease and their transcriptional regulators |
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Kacie Deters |
Disparities in risk factors for brain aging and ADRD |
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Linda McEvoy, Aaron Seitz |
ACT Clinical Core presentation; Updates related to recruitment, biorepository, and workgroups |
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Shelly Gray, Elizabeth Phelan |
Stop Falls Study |
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Tim Hohman |
Molecular drivers of Alzheimer’s disease resilience through genomic and proteomic analyses |
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Wednesday, May 15th: Symposium Day 2 |
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Speaker(s) |
Topic |
Presentation |
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Cecilia Lee |
Tribute to Laura Gibbons |
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Kelly Chang |
Advanced diffusion modeling characterizes FLAIR white matter hyperintensities in the ACT prospective neuroimaging cohort |
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Maximilian Kobiesa |
Quantitative measurements of magnetic resonance angiography decrease with aging and cognitive impairment in the ACT cohort |
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Chuxuan Sun |
Health care utilization and cost differences across cognitively-defined Alzheimer’s disease subgroups |
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Kristen Russ |
NCRAD plasma and CSF ADRD biomarkers |
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Joshua Sonnen |
Airborne metals, neurodegeneration, and dementia in the ACT study |
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