MARCH 19, 2025
(All times are listed as Eastern Standard Time)
MORNING SESSION III (9:00 am – 10:30 pm)
AD/ADRD Risks in Vulnerable Populations
Chair: Roland Thorpe (Johns Hopkins University)
9:00 – 9:30 am
Xi Chen (Yale University)
Childhood Exposure to School Racial Segregation and Dementia among Older Americans: Evidence using Linked Administrative Data
9:30 – 10:00 am
Laura Wang (Duke University School of Medicine)
Impact of Neighborhood Disadvantage and Lifetime Discrimination on Blood-based Biomarkers in ADNI-4
10:00 – 10:30 am
Sarah Forrester (University of Massachusetts)
Discrimination & AD/ADRD: Lessons from Brain Biomarkers
10:30 – 11:00 am
COFFEE BREAK
MORNING SESSION IV (11:00 am – 12:30 pm)
Environmental Factors and Heath Disparities in AD/ADRD
Chair: Felix Kabo (University of Michigan, CannonDesign)
11:00 am – 11:30 am
Julia Kravchenko (Duke University School of Medicine)
Exposures to PFAS: Risk of AD/ADRD in Vulnerable Population Groups
11:30 am – 12:00 pm
Kristina Dang (University of Southern California)
Joint Effects of Exposure to Ambient Long-term Air Pollution and Heat on Cognitive Function in the Health and Retirement Study
12:00 pm – 12:30 pm
Maggie Calkins (IDEAS Institute)
How Nursing Home Design Can Impact Health Disparities
12:30 pm – 01:30 pm
LUNCH BREAK
AFTERNOON SESSION III (1:30 pm – 3:00 pm):
Perspectives in Health Disparities Research
Chair: Marianne Chanti-Ketterl (Duke University School of Medicine)
1:30 – 2:00 pm
Eric Stallard (Duke University)
Biodemographic Perspectives in Research on AD/ADRD Health Disparities
2:00 – 2:30 pm
Matthew Baumgart (Alzheimer’s Association)
Dementia Disparities: What Do the Data Show?
2:30 – 3:00 pm
Partha Bhattacharyya (NIA)
3:00 – 3:30 pm
COFFEE BREAK
3:30 – 4:30 pm
ROUND TABLE
Moderators:
Igor Akushevich (Duke University)
Heather Whitson (Duke University School of Medicine)
4:30 – 5:15 pm
Moderator: Murali Doraiswamy (Duke University School of Medicine)
Keynote Speech: Geoffrey Ginsburg (All of US Research Program)
All of US Research Program
5:15 – 5:30 pm
CONCLUDING REMARKS
Igor Akushevich and Carl V. Hill
