2010 Fall ADRC Meeting
Ed Core Leaders Meeting
- NIA update
- Nina Silverberg, PhD; Assistant Director, NIA ADRC Program
- ADEAR update
- Jennifer Watson, MA; NIA Project Officer, ADEAR Center
- Handout
- Using social media to enhance ADRC collaboration and recruitment
- Jim Cashel, MD, MPP; Chairman and Co-founder, Forum One Communications
- ADCS experience in using social media tools
- Jeffree Itrich; Senior Clinical Trials Communications Specialist, ADCS, University of California, San Diego
- Models of collaboration across ADRCs: The Buddy Program
- Darby Morhardt, LCSW; Northwestern University
- Survey of clinician attitudes towards lumbar puncture across ADRCs
- John Morris, MD; Director, Washington University
- Ethnic differences among research subjects in willingness to assent to brain donation
- Linda Boise, PhD; Oregon Health & Science University
- Frontotemporal dementia caregivers and researchers: Partnering for brain donation
- Mary Guerriero Austrom, PhD; University of Indiana
- Educational intervention to improve brain donation assent rates among African American participants
- Angela Jefferson, PhD; Boston University
- Recruitment of African American normal controls
- Caitlin McGuire, presenting for Deborah Danner, PhD; University of Kentucky
Neuropathology Core Leaders Meeting
- An update on the Alzheimer's Disease Neuroimaging Initiative (ADNI)
- Michael Weiner, MD; ADNI Project Leader and Imaging Core Leader, University of California, San Francisco
- An update on biomarkers in AD and non-AD dementias
- Tom Montine, MD, PhD; NP Core Leader, University of Washington
- The role of neuropathology/neuropathologists in optimizing clinical trials in AD
- Jeffrey Cummings, MD; Director, Lou Ruvo Center for Brain Health, Cleveland Clinic
- Realigned clinical criteria for the diagnosis of AD
- Guy McKhann, MD; Professor, Johns Hopkins University
- Reporting of FTLD cases to NACC — an update
- Dennis W. Dickson, MD; NP Core Leader, Mayo Clinic and Florida ADRC
Directors Meeting
- NIA update
- Richard J. Hodes, MD; Director, NIA
- Update and progress report on three NIA/Alzheimer's Association Workgroups established to update the definition of and diagnostic guidelines for AD
- Marilyn Albert, PhD; Director, Johns Hopkins University
- Report on the FTD Module from the FTD Steering Committee
- David S. Knopman, MD; Representative, FTD Steering Committee
- Factors underlying the transition from cognitive health to dementia
- Robert S. Wilson, PhD; Neuropsychologist, Rush University
- Modifiable risk factors for cognitive decline, MCI and AD in northern Manhattan
- Jose A. Luchsinger, MD, MPH; Florence Irving Associate Professor of Medicine and Epidemiology, Columbia University
- Disentangling the effects of normative and nonnormative aging
- Richard B. Lipton, MD; Lotti and Bernard Benson Faculty Scholar in Alzheimer's Disease, Albert Einstein College of Medicine
- Discussion
- Laurel Beckett, PhD; Biostatistics Core Leader, University of California, Davis
NACC/Data Core Leaders Meeting
- Factor structure and invariance in the UDS neuropsychological test battery
- Kathleen Hayden, PhD; Epidemiologist, Duke University
- Combination selection of markers for prediction
- XH Andrew Zhou, PhD; Biostatistician, NACC
- Source-to-database errors: Causes and effects
- Meredith Nahm, MS; Associate Director for Clinical Research Informatics, Duke Translational Medicine Institute, Duke University
- Building ADRC recruitment and research data management tools: Lessons learned in Wisconsin
- Nevin Olson; Senior Research Specialist, University of Wisconsin
- Open discussion of security, data validation, and institutional support for data management
- Lawrence Whitley; Data Manager, Duke University