2012 Fall ADRC Meeting

Note: Following are links to available presentations from the meeting. The full agendas can be found here.

Education core leaders meeting

NIA update.: Creighton Phelps, PhD — Director, ADRC Program, National Institute on Aging
ADEAR update.: Jennifer Watson — ADEAR Project Officer, NIA
NAPA update.: Ronald C. Petersen, MD, PhD — Director, Mayo Clinic

Administration on Aging presentation.: Kate Gordon — Administration for Community Living
The Illinois Cogntive Resources Network.: Raj Shah, MD — Ed Core Leader, Rush University; Darby Morhardt, MSW — Ed Core Leader, Northwestern University
Update on NACC collaborative autopsy study.: Linda Boise, PhD — Ed Core Leader, Oregon Health & Science University
St. Louis efforts to improve and educate around hospital care.: Maggie Murphy-White, MA — Hospital Initiative Coordinator, St. Louis Chapter, Alzheimer's Association
UCSF educational program for dementia patients and caregivers anticipating hospitalization.: Cynthia F. Barton, RN, MSN — University of California, San Francisco;; Jennifer Merilees, RN, PhD — University of California, San Francisco

Update on Ed Core Wiki.: Howard Rosen, MD — Ed Core Leader, University of California, San Francisco
Social media use by ADCS.: Jeffree Itrich — Sr. Clinical Trials Communications & Recruitment Specialist, Alzheimer's Disease Cooperative Study, University of California, San Diego

What NACC (and other) data say about the accuracy of clinical diagnoses in predicting neuropathology on autopsy.: Thomas Beach, MD, PhD — NP Core Leader, Arizona ADRC
Neuropathology vs neuromythology*: How ADC/NACC data help to move the field of AD research forward.: *Thanks to Dr. William Landau.
Peter Nelson, MD, PhD — Chair, NP Core Steering Committee; NP Core Leader, University of Kentucky

Changing the NACC/ADRC NP Form
Cost recovery for NP Cores (toward a consensus statement with regard to charges to defray expenses)

From the NIA Director.: Richard Hodes, MD
From the ADRC Program Director.: Creighton Phelps, PhD
ADGC GWAS update: Gerard D. Schellenberg, PhD — P.I., Alzheimer's Disease Genetics Consortium
NAPA update: Ronald C. Petersen, MD, PhD — Advisory Committee Chair, National Plan on Alzheimer's Disease; Director, Mayo Clinic
International Alzheimer’s Disease Research Portfolio (IADRP).: Laurie Ryan, PhD — Program Director, AD Clinical Trials, NIA

GWAS using MRI as an endophenotype.: Lindsay Farrar, PhD — Chief, Biomedical Genetics, Boston University
MRI genetics in minority populations.: Andrew Saykin, PsyD — Professor of Radiology and Director, Indiana University Center for Neuroimaging
Novel use of MRI.: Charles DeCarli, MD — Steering Committee Chair; Director, University of California, Davis

Research methods: Biomarkers and University of Pennsylvania data.: X.H. Andrew Zhou, PhD — NACC Co-investigator and Biostatistician

Cognitive weighting.: Sarah Monsell, MS — NACC Research Scientist
Presentation by former NACC Junior Investigator awardee.: Patrick Brown, PhD — Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Columbia University
Asymptomatic AD.: Charles Mock, MD, PhD, FACS — NACC Co-investigator and Epidemiologist

Statistical power in biomarker analyses.: Lon Schneider, MD — Clinical Core Leader, University of Southern California

An electronic data entry system: Experience in designing and implementing the system.: Roger Mueller, BA — Data Manager, Mayo Clinic
REDcap web-interface database system.: Jonathan D. Mahnken, PhD — Data Core Leader, University of Kansas