ADRC News

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Super Aging Podcast with Dr. Nathaniel Chin and host Fatou Ceesay
Nathaniel Chin, MD, was a guest on “Super Aging,” a podcast that explores healthy aging, caregiving and raises awareness about Alzheimer’s disease.
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Tinker Schuman joins Poetry for Life: Call-in Show
Alzheimer's Poetry Project welcomes Tinker Schuman, Lac du Flambeau poet, beader, pipe-carrier and tribal elder, to "Poetry for Life: Call-in Show."
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Sanjay Asthana MD at a podium speaking into a microphone
Sanjay Asthana, MD, director of the Wisconsin Alzheimer’s Disease Research Center, was elected to the Alzheimer’s Disease Research Center (ADRC) Executive Committee and National Alzheimer’s Coordinating Center (NACC) Steering Committee.
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Dr. Cynthia Carlsson
Cynthia Carlsson, MD, MS, leader of the Wisconsin ADRC Clinical Core and co-leader of the Biomarker Core, was appointed to a two-year term as chair of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Advisory Council on Alzheimer’s Research, Care and Services.
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2nd Annual Aging Well Summit: Healthy Brains, Healthy Caregiving

Cairasu All Things Alzheimer’s will host the 2nd Annual Aging Well Summit: Healthy Brains, Healthy Caregivers November 13-14, 2021. The free, online, two-day event is designed to support caregivers with brain health information and caregiver education and resources. Several Alzheimer's disease and caregiver experts from UW-Madison are scheduled to present at the event.

The event will take place November 13, 10 a.m. - 4 p.m. and November 14, 10 a.m. - 4 p.m.

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Dr. Peggye Dilworth-Anderson, professor of Health Policy and Management in the Gillings School of Global Health at the University of North Carolina Chapel Hill and a renowned Alzheimer's disease researcher.
Dr. Peggye Dilworth-Anderson will present the keynote address at the 11th Annual Solomon Carter Fuller Brain Health Celebration.
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logo for Perpetual Notion Machine radio show
Nathaniel Chin, MD, was a guest on “Perpetual Notion Machine,” a weekly science program on WORT 89.9 FM.
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screen shot from video of Barriers to Diagnosing Alzheimer's Disease Among Latinx Individuals: More than a Language Issue

Maria Mora Pinzon, MD, MS, presented “Barriers to Diagnosis of Alzheimer’s Disease Among Latinx Individuals” at the August 18 Wednesday Nite @ The Lab livestream. Dr. Mora Pinzon is a primary care research fellow at the UW–Madison Department of Family Medicine and Community Health, a scientist with the Wisconsin Alzheimer’s Institute (WAI), and a REC scholar in the Wisconsin Alzheimer’s Disease Research Center. In her presentation, she shared factors that increase the risk of Alzheimer’s...

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photo of Andrea Gilmore-Bykovskyi, PhD, RN

The American Federation for Aging Research (AFAR) awarded Andrea Gilmore-Bykovskyi, PhD, RN, the 2021 Terrie Fox Wetle Rising Star Award in Health Services and Aging Research. Gilmore-Bykovskyi, an assistant professor in the UW School of Nursing, is an investigator and Care Research Core informatics lead in the Wisconsin ADRC. She is also a current Wisconsin ADRC REC Scholar.

The award is given to early- and mid-career researchers who make important contributions to health services science. AFAR is...

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graphic of person with vagus nerve highlighted from gut to brain

The age-related processes that contribute to Alzheimer’s disease development remain largely unknown, but a team of University of Wisconsin–Madison researchers believes that the composition of an individual’s gut microbiome may contribute to brain changes that lead to neurodegenerative diseases. Barbara Bendlin, PhD, Federico Rey, PhD, and Tyler Ulland, PhD, recently received funding from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to support their project, “Gut barrier function in Alzheimer’s disease.” The 5-year grant is expected...