The Wisconsin Alzheimer’s Disease Research Center hosted more than 160 attendees at its 2019 Alzheimer’s Disease & Related Disorders Research Day, which took place March 1 at the Discovery Building on the UW-Madison campus. More than 40 students, trainees, postdocs, fellows, and junior faculty members from across the UW-Madison campus submitted scientific abstracts to the poster session held in conjunction with the event. You can read all the submitted abstracts online in the Poster Abstracts Book.
Photo caption: Abstract winners, presenters, and Wisconsin ADRC leaders, left to right, include Karly Cody, Tobey Betthauser, Sterling Johnson, Rachel Whitmer, Dorothy Edwards, John O'Hara, Nickolas Lambrou, Sanjay Asthana, and Amy Kind.
The following poster presenters were selected for Best Poster awards:
- Tobey Betthauser, PhD, Best Fellow, Post Doc, or Research Scientist Poster for “Neurofibrillary tangles and beta-amyloid plaques measured by [F-18]MK-6240 and [C-11]PiB are associated with retrospective cognitive decline in WRAP participants”
- Karly Cody, BS, Best Graduate Student/Research Specialist Poster for “Sleep, cognition, and beta-amyloid in adults with Down syndrome”
- Stephan Blanz, Best Undergraduate Student Poster for “Vagal Nerve Stimulation Modulates CSF Penetrance”
The following authors offered podium presentations on their abstracts:
- Ryan Dougherty, BS, a doctoral student in the Department of Kinesiology and a trainee with Dr. Dane Cook (kinesiology) and Dr. Ozioma Okonkwo in the Wisconsin Alzheimer’s Disease Research Center, presented “Socioeconomic Status and Brain Health: The CARDIA Study.”
- John O’Hara, MA, clinical psychology doctoral candidate at Midwestern University in Downers Grove, Illinois, is presently completing his pre-doctoral internship in the Geriatric Track of the William S. Middleton Memorial Veterans Hospital Psychology Internship Program. He presented “Baseline Dispersion Intra-Individual Cognitive Variability in a Young Pre-Clinical Cohort.”
- Nickolas Lambrou, PhD, an advanced postdoctoral fellow with the Madison VA Geriatric Research Education and Clinical Center (GRECC) where he studies under the mentorship of Carey E. Gleason, PhD, presented “Subjective Memory Complaints Associated with Discrimination in Healthcare Settings Among Transgender and Gender Non-Conforming Older Adults.”
The abstracts competition was sponsored by the Asthana Family Alzheimer’s Disease Memorial Fund. Each podium presenter and poster session winner received a monetary award from the fund.
About research day
The Alzheimer’s Disease & Related Disorders Research Day is an annual event designed to encourage collaboration and promote scientific thought among faculty, students, and researchers from a wide range of disciplines across the UW-Madison campus. This year’s program welcomed featured speakers Rachel Whitmer, PhD, professor of epidemiology and director of the Population Science of Brain Health Laboratory at the University of California, Davis, and Amy J. Kind, MD, PhD, associate professor of medicine and director or the Health Services and Care Research Program in the UW Department of Medicine.
Alzheimer's Disease and Related Disorders Research Day is sponsored by the Wisconsin Geriatric Education Center.
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