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We hope you can please join us for a special session of the Epidemiology and Biostatistics of Aging (EBA) Training Program: the 8^th 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 19^th 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”

Please join us for this Epidemiology and Biostatistics of Aging (EBA) Training Program Research in Progress meeting. Grant Schumock, PhD Candidate in Department of Biostatistics, will present his ongoing work, title TBA.  We hope you can attend!

We will hold this meeting in Room E6519 in the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health; there will also be a Zoom option for those who need to join virtually.  Please contact bbuta@jhu.edu for details on joining this meeting via Zoom.

Please join us for this EBA Research in Progress meeting. Jason Smith, PhD Student in Department of Epidemiology, will present his work-in-progress on “Quantifying the proportion of dementia risk attributable to vascular risk factors.” We hope you can attend!

We will hold in Room E6519 in the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health; there will also be a Zoom option for those who need to join virtually.  Please contact bbuta@jhu.edu for details on joining this meeting via Zoom.

Please join us for this EBA Research in Progress meeting. Dr. Roland Thorpe will moderate this session: “‘Race’ in medical / aging research: a panel discussion.” We hope you can attend!

Our panelists include:

• Deidra C. Crews, M.D., Professor, Department of Medicine, Division of Nephrology, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine; Deputy Director, Johns Hopkins Center for Health Equity
• Hormuzd Katki, Ph.D., Senior Investigator, Biostatistics Branch, Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics, National Cancer Institute
• John W. Jackson, Sc.D., Assistant Professor of Epidemiology, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health

Moderated by: Roland J. Thorpe, Jr., Ph.D., Professor, Department of Health Behavior and Society, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health; Associate Vice Provost of Faculty Diversity; Deputy Director, Hopkins Center for Health Disparities Solutions; Director, Johns Hopkins Alzheimer’s Disease Resource Center for Minority Aging Research

We will hold in Room E6519 in the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health; there will also be a Zoom option for those who need to join virtually.  Please contact bbuta@jhu.edu for details on joining this meeting via Zoom.