AGENDA: MARCH 16, 2023

MARCH 16, 2023

(All times are listed as Eastern Standard Time)

MORNING SESSION (9:00 a.m. – 12:30 p.m.)
DISPARITIES IN AD/ADRD TREATMENT AND SURVIVAL:
FACTORS CAPABLE OF EXPLAINING DISPARITIES
Chair: Anand Kumar (University of Illinois, Chicago Psychiatry College of Medicine)

9:00 – 9:30 am
Anand Kumar (University of Illinois, Chicago Psychiatry College of Medicine)
The approval of new Drugs for Alzheimer’s Disease: Biomarkers, Therapeutic Targets and Statistical Significance versus Clinical Significance

9:30 – 10:00 am
Arseniy Yashkin (Duke University)
AD/ADRD Disparities in Skilled Nursing Facilities

10:00 – 10:30 am
Devangere Devanand (Columbia University Medical Center)
Disparities in the Treatment of Behavioral Disturbances in Alzheimer’s Disease

10:30 – 11:00 am
Ming Lu (Avid Radiopharmaceuticals)
Exploratory Analysis of AD Biomarker Data Using Various Statistical Approaches

11:00 – 11:30 am
Rebecca Li (Vivli, Center for Global Clinical Research Data)
Kathleen Welsh Bohmer (Duke University School of Medicine)

Vivli – An innovative platform for sharing and accessing Alzheimer’s Clinical trial data

11:30 – 12:00 pm
Rema Raman (University of Southern California)
Racial/Ethnic Disparities Among Adults Recruited for a Preclinical Alzheimer Disease Trials

12:00 – 12:15 pm
DISCUSSION

12:15 – 01:30 pm
LUNCH BREAK

AFTERNOON SESSION (1:30 p.m. – 5:15 p.m.):
PERSPECTIVES
Chair: Mustafa Husain (UT Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas)

1:30 – 2:00 pm
Vijeth Iyengar (American Association of Retired Persons)
Achieving Equity in Healthy Aging: Global Insights from AARP’s Aging Readiness & Competitiveness (ARC) Initiative

2:00 – 2:30 pm
Percy Griffin (Alzheimer’s Association)
Advancing Health Disparity Research in ADRD’s – Efforts from the Alzheimer’s Association

2:30 – 3:00 pm
Olga F. Jarrín Montaner (Rutgers University)
Opportunities and challenges in analyzing racial and ethnic disparities in Alzheimer’s disease and other dementias using CMS Chronic Conditions Data Warehouse data

3:00 – 3:30 pm
Tyson Brown (Duke University)
Advances in the conceptualization and measurement of structural racism and its effects on health

3:30 – 4:30 pm
ROUND TABLE
Chairs: Patricia Jones (NIH), Igor Akushevich (Duke University)

4:30 – 5:15 pm
Keynote Speech: Whitney Robinson (Duke University School of Medicine)
How do we assess a racial disparity in health?

5:15 – 5:30 pm
CONCLUDING REMARKS
Igor Akushevich and Carl V. Hill