MARCH 18, 2025
(All times are listed as Eastern Standard Time)
9:00 – 9:10 am
WELCOME AND INAUGURATION
Ian Brown (Duke University)
9:10 – 9:30 am
OPENING SESSION
Roland Thorpe (Johns Hopkins University)
Goldie Smith Byrd (Wake Forest University)
Felix Kabo (University of Michigan, CannonDesign)
MORNING SESSION I (9:30 a.m. – 10:30 a.m.)
Risk Factors of AD/ADRD and Health Disparities I
Chair: Matthias Arnold (Helmholtz University and Duke University)
9:30 – 10:00 am
Kacie Deters (University of California, Los Angeles)
Dementia and the Intersection of Race, Society, and Biology
10:00 – 10:30 am
Ryan Powell (UW-Madison)
Linking the Occupational Exposome to Neurobiology
10:30 – 11:00 am
COFFEE BREAK
MORNING SESSION II (11:00 a.m. – 12:30 p.m.)
Risk Factors of AD/ADRD and Health Disparities II
Chair: Matthias Arnold (Helmholtz University and Duke University)
11:00 – 11:30 am
Jan Krumsiek (Weill Cornell Medicine)
Signatures of Alzheimer’s Disease: From Central to Peripheral Metabolism
11:30 am – 12:00 pm
Matthias Arnold (Helmholtz Munich)
Imprint of Socioeconomic Status on the Brain Multi-ome: Links to Alzheimer’s Disease and Related Dementias
12:00 pm – 12:30 pm
Solmaz Amiri (Washington State University)
Racial, Ethnic, and Rural Disparities in Distance to Physicians among Decedents with Dementias
12:30 – 01:30 pm
LUNCH BREAK
AFTERNOON SESSION I (1:30 p.m. – 3:00 p.m.)
Decomposition Methods for Health Disparities
Chair: Konstantin Arbeev (Duke University)
01:30 – 2:00 pm
Igor Akushevich (Duke University)
A New Approach for Decomposition for Time-to-Event Data: Effects of Medicare Predictors in Health Disparities in the Risk of Alzheimer’s Disease
2:00 – 2:30 pm
Daniel Powers (University of Texas at Austin)
Multivariate Decomposition for Hazard Rate Models
2:30 – 3:00 pm
Soojin Park (University of California, Riverside)
Causal Decomposition Analysis with Synergistic Interventions: A Triply-Robust Machine Learning Approach to Addressing Social Disparities
3:00 – 3:30 am
COFFEE BREAK
AFTERNOON SESSION II (3:30 p.m. – 5:00 p.m.)
New Methodologic Topics in AD/ADRD Heath Disparities Research
Chair: Konstantin Arbeev (Duke University)
3:30 – 4:00 pm
Feixiong Cheng (Cleveland Clinic)
Leveraging Genetics, Multi-Omics and Real-World Patient Data from Ethnically Diverse Populations fuels: First-in-human Trial in Alzheimer’s Disease
4:00 – 4:30 pm
Eleanor Hayes-Larson (University of Southern California)
Statistical Methods to Improve Generalizability: Opportunities and Challenges for AD/ADRD Disparities Research
4:30 – 5:00 pm
George Demiris (University of Pennsylvania)
Artificial Intelligence Approaches to Support Persons with ADRD and their Families in Community Settings
