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From single disease reductionist research to informed Machine Learning for research on multimorbidity – 2024 E. Monument Street, Powe Room 1-500Q

Milo A. Puhan, Chair, Epidemiology and Public Health and Director, Epidemiology, Biostatistics and Prevention Institute at University of Zurich will present ” From single disease reductionist research to informed Machine Learning for research on multimorbidity”.  Dr. Puhan was a tenure track Associate Profeessor in the Department of Epidemiology at the Bloomberg School of Public Health.  A major focus of Dr. Puhan’s research is on nodeling the balance of benefits and harms of preventive or therapeutic  interventions for persons living with multiple chronic diseases.  This event is sponsored by: The Matthew Tayback, Sc.D., Memorial Lecture Fund; Center on Aging & Health; Division of Geriatric Medicine and Gerontology; Johns Hopkins Older Americans Independence Center; Epidemiology and Biostatistics of Aging Training Program.

8th Annual Joint Session: EBA Training Program, BHS Lab, ENGAGE Lab, and SMART/WIT groups

We hope you can please join us for a special session of the Epidemiology and Biostatistics of Aging (EBA) Training Program: the 8th Annual Joint Session of the EBA, Brain Health Study (BHS) Lab, ENGAGE (Energy, Physical Activity & Aging) Lab, and SMART (Statistical Methods and Applications for Research in Technology) – WIT (Wearable and Implantable Technology) groups this coming Wednesday, April 19th from 2:00-3:30pm.  As a special meeting of the EBA Training Program, the goals of this session will be to learn about exciting ongoing research in each of these groups and to discuss potential collaborative opportunities across groups.

Date: Wednesday, April 19, 2023

Time: 2:00-3:30PM

Location: In person – Room 1-500Q in the 2024 E. Monument St. building; with Zoom option: contact Monique Lee (mlee10@jhmi.edu) or Brian Buta (bbuta@jhu.edu).

Meeting topic: Joint session of the EBA training program, BHS Lab, ENGAGE Lab, and SMART/WIT groups

Presenters, and Presentation Titles:

Brain Health Study (BHS) Lab presentation

  • Michelle Carlson, Kyle Moored, Breanna Crane, Patrick Donahue, Emily Richards: “Neighborhoods, Cognitive Health, and Modifiable Risk Factors”

ENGAGE Lab presentations

  • Anis Davoudi: “Physical Activity and Dementia in the National Health and Aging Trends Study”
  • Lacey Etzkorn: Ziopatch studies in ARIC

SMART / WIT Working Group presentations

  • Angela Zhao: “Objective physical activity measures outperform traditional predictors of incident Parkinson’s disease in the UK Biobank”
  • Lily Koffman: “Fingerprinting Walking using High Density Accelerometer Data”

Epidemiology of Vision Loss and Aging – 2024 E. Monument Street, Powe Room 1-500Q

Joshua R. Ehrlich, MD, MPH, Assistant Professor in the Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences and in the Institute for Social Research at the University of Michigan will present “Epidemiology of Vision Loss and Aging”. Dr. Ehrlich’s research focuses on the impact of vision loss on systemic health, well-being, and quality of life.  This event is co-hosted by the Center on Aging & Health and Cochlear Center for Hearing and Public Health.  Sponsorship for this event is sponsored by: The Matthew Tayback, Sc.D., Memorial Lecture Fund; Center on Aging & Health; Division of Geriatric Medicine and Gerontology; Johns Hopkins Older Americans Independence Center; Epidemiology and Biostatistics of Aging Training Program

Who Cares? Family Caregiving Experiences of our Healthcare Providers – 2024 E. Monument Street, Powe Room 1-500Q

Kimberly A. Skarupski, PhD, MPH, Senior Associate Dean for Faculty Development and Professor in the Department of Medicine and Professor of Epidemiology in the Bloomberg School of Public Health at Johns Hopkins University will discuss the findings from a caregiving survey that was conducted with the faculty of the Johns Hopkins Department of Medicine.  The survey was conducted in October 2022 and was based upon an article from 2021 entitled “Prevalence of caregiving and high caregiving strain among late-career medical school faculty members: Workforce, policy and faculty development implications”  This article resulted in numerous press releases and faculty feedback which inspired the Department of Medicine to survey their faculty.

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