Neurodegenerative Disease (e.g. MS, Parkinson's disease)

Geriatric Rehabilitation

Lifestyle Medicine

Lecture Luncheon

(617753) LECTURE LUNCHEON: Neurodegenerative Diseases and Geriatric Rehabilitation Networking Group Special Luncheon Symposium *TICKETED EVENT*

Moderator(s)

• 

  Mark Hirsch, PhD

  Senior Scientist
  Carolinas Rehabilitation, Carolinas Medical Center, Atrium Health
  Charlotte, North Carolina

Presenter(s)

• 

  Lisa Barnes, PhD

  Professor in the Rush Alzheimer’s Disease Center
  Rush University Medical Center
  Chicago, Illinois

Panelist(s)

• 

  Emily Nalder, PhD, BOccThy(Hons)

  Assistant professor (tenure stream)
  University of Toronto, Faculty of Medicine
  Toronto, Ontario
• 

  Michele York, PhD, ABPP-CN

  Associate Professor; Section Head, Neuropsychology
  Baylor College of Medicine
  Houston, Texas
• 

  Patricia Heyn, PhD, FGSA, FACRM

  Associate Professor
  University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus
  Aurora, Colorado

*TICKETED EVENT*

This Lecture Luncheon presents the cross-cutting research of Dr. Lisa Barnes, the Alla V. and Solomon Jesmer Professor of Gerontology and Geriatric Medicine in the department of Neurological Sciences at Rush University Medical Center, and a cognitive neuropsychologist in the Rush Alzheimer’s Disease Center. Dr. Barnes received her PhD from the University of Michigan and completed an NIMH postdoctoral fellowship in cognitive neuroscience at the University of California, Davis, before joining the faculty at Rush Medical College in 1999. Her research focus is on racial disparities in chronic diseases of aging. She is the Principal Investigator of three community-based cohort studies of older African Americans, and the Director of the Rush Center of Excellence on Disparities in HIV and Aging. One of her cohort studies, the Minority Aging Research Study (MARS), is nationally recognized as a premier study of minority aging and has been continuously funded by the NIA since 2004. Dr. Barnes has published extensively on risk factors for cognitive decline and Alzheimer’s disease in older African Americans with over 160 international publications. Priority front row seats are reserved for those who purchase a luncheon ticket. Cannot Guarantee for seating for those who do not register for this lecture luncheon.

Learning Objectives:

• To share details about women leaders’ ongoing and past biomedical rehabilitation research and scholarship.
• To discuss the various paths women leaders have taken to become accomplished in their research and scholarship.
• To raise awareness among ACRM communities for the importance of providing direct support to diverse and traditionally underrepresented/minority groups for success within the ACRM and in the rehabilitation field