📢This August I'll be offering a 2-day course in the SMaRT workshops (smart-workshops.com) program on Designing & Planning Research Studies with Diverse Samples. Workshop Link: smart-workshops.com/diverse-info A brief thread:

It's April 10th, and our #BrownSPH10 celebration of alumni continues with Professor Zach Kunicki ’19 MPH! Professor Kunicki studies cognitive decline and how its trajectory can be measured with Brown Psychiatry and Human Behavior. sph.brown.edu/news/2024-04-1…

We are so excited to have rescheduled @snf1982's AMPHIBIAN talk! Mark your calendars for Apr 17 2024 12-1 and register here: bit.ly/4412W55 Rich Jones @rnjma Leslie Brick The Warren Alpert Medical School Brown University School of Public Health

Dr. Zach Kunicki draws on his public health training to study how cognitive decline changes over time. As part of the Quantitative Sciences Program, he supports his DPHB colleagues in their statistical research, too!

This Wednesday at 12!! Brown Psychiatry and Human Behavior Rich Jones @rnjma Leslie Brick

In just a few more hours!

Our paper on the COVID pandemic's relationship w enrollment at ADRCs is now out in the April issue of Alzheimer's & Dementia Journals . Thanks to co-authors from the Pitt's Alzheimer's Disease Research Center, #HsinghuaSylviaLin #MelitaTerry #DianxuRen #JenLingler alz-journals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/al…

Our article on the feasibility of remote, self-administered cognitive screening for older adults during the COVID-19 pandemic was a 2022-2023 #TopCitedArticle in DADM. alz-journals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.10…

Have y'all even read this special issue yet? Because you should!

UPDATE: Hiring one additional RA for grant-funded studies - including my sleep-suicide risk study. Please apply & RT!

In this general community survey, a low MMSE score (≤23) is not particularly suggestive of dementia, but among patients appearing to a clinician with a complaint of a memory problem, a dementia diagnosis is likely. #geriatrics agsjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/jg…

Woohoo! Thanks to Rich Jones @rnjma Alyssa De Vito and Cyrus Kosar for their help preparing this award and The National Institute on Aging (NIA) making this dream come true! #myfirstNIHgrant

Thanks so much to everyone who participated in this week’s Olympics caption contest fun! Here are the Final Four. Please vote for your favorite using the poll in a separate post. The one receiving the most votes within 24 hours will get a Quantitude spiral notebook!

FINAL FOUR. Vote for your favorite caption!

Excited to have a DANDI account to showcase Louisa Thompson Zach Kunicki and Alyssa De Vito's hard work!

Congratulations to Zach Kunicki (PI) and Alyssa De Vito (Co-I) on their recent The National Institute on Aging (NIA) R03 "Defining rates of cognitive aging in adults with and without dementia using the CODA cohort" starting this month!

🚨Postdoc Opportunity🚨 Join the Brain Health Equity Unit @ NIA to study brain health disparities in historically marginalized communities, using neuroimaging, genomics & epidemiology. Apply by 10/4/24: training.nih.gov/jobs/pdp-10042… #Postdoc #BrainHealth #HealthDisparities #ScienceJobs

Having worked with Kaitlin Sheerin, PhD (she/her) for the past year or so, I gotta say anyone who gets the opportunity to work with her is going to be MUCH better off for it! Def take advantage of this wonderful opportunity!

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