Excited to announce that we were awarded an R01 to examine the heterogeneity of subtle cognitive decline phenotypes in ARIC and BLSA! We’ll be hiring a lab manager and postdoc. Email me if interested. priyapalta Alden Gross Emily C. Edmonds Katie Bangen Mark Bondi #KeenanWalker

I am happy to share our latest publication (my first as last author!) on hearing loss and physical activity among older adults in the US lead by Sahar Assi. JHU Cochlear Center for Hearing and Public Health nam02.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3A%2…

Happening today at #AAIC23 : Olivia Emanuel doing an awesome job presenting her work on birth weight and dementia in #ARIC !

Come see the sensational Renee Groechel at her poster at #AAIC23 today! #ARIC

Congratulations Dr. Yifei Lu on a successful dissertation defense! It has been an absolute pleasure to be a part of your PhD journey! #UNC_CvEpi #proudmentor Yifei Lu Christy Avery UNC Public Health

📢 Alert: Hiring! Looking for a postdoc to collaborate on studies of vascular contributions to AD/ADRD outcomes. Opportunity to work w/ data from multiple large cohorts (including imaging and AD blood biomarker data). Message me for details! Please retweet! #epitwitter

Apply now! The 2023 Summer Workshop on Alzheimer's Disease and Related Dementias (ADRD) Disparities will convene early-and mid-stage scientists designing studies related to disparities in ADRD research with a focus on advancing proposal development. 🔗jhsph.edu/departments/he…

ACADEMIC PROMOTIONS: Nrupen Bhavsar and Halpern promoted to Associate Professor
medicine.duke.edu/medicinenews/b…

🔥🔥OFF THE PRESS: We examined medications used to treat poor sleep and dementia risk. Sleep med users (vs non-users) were at a 48% greater risk of developing dementia (HR: 1.48; 1.26-1.74) Adam Spira priyapalta Pamela Lutsey SCAN Lab (Rebecca Gottesman) Vanderbilt Memory and Alzheimer's Center academic.oup.com/biomedgerontol…

I’m so proud of you Nrupen Bhavsar! You worked really hard for this. Now can you get to the honey-do list!?

Join us at the BSR-supported workshop “Structural Racism and Rigorous Models of Social Inequity,” convened by National Academies on May16-17. buff.ly/39EgRpF

Our recent article examining vascular risk factors, neuroimaging biomarkers, and cognition in the MESA study made the cover of Alzheimer’s & Dementia! Timothy Hughes Christopher Schaich, PhD alz-journals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.100…

Our new publication in JSCVD.Key message: Good cardiovascular health(@AHAScience Life's Simple 7) in midlife is associated with lower risks of incident #stroke and recurrent #cardiovasculardisease after stroke.
authors.elsevier.com/a/1eyaS3lH44mK… Johns Hopkins Epidemiology Hopkins Nursing

Excited to share a project years in the making! We conducted a systematic review and empirical investigation of tau PET positivity cut-points, highlighting significant heterogeneity in methods used and resultant cut-point values. Check it out below!

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And we will all say we knew her when! What a great collaborator! Roland J. Thorpe, Jr Rachel R. Hardeman, PhD, MPH Dr. Jennifer Manly priyapalta

My disabled academics - I get your emails, DMs, & messages every day. I am sorry that I cannot keep up with responding. So, I'm sharing my responses.
You are right. We are not ok. We've been ignored, silenced, & held back for far too long. Please know you are never alone.

Calling all future K99 applicants: NIA has posted new sample K99/R00 applications and summary statements on our website! We are grateful to the K99 awardee who agreed to share. Read the application pair: an initial application and subsequent resubmission: nia.nih.gov/research/train…

#GangaBey is a Center for Research on Alzheimer's Disparities Scientist, who is a postdoc at UNC, presents her work in progress on neighborhood inequalities and cognitive function among older adults in the JacksonHeartStudy #RCMARAnnual22

UAB epidemiologists win back-to-back
American Heart Association awards for excellence in physical activity research. Congratulations, Erin Dooley, PhD! uab.edu/soph/home/news…