Mar 13 2024

The Black Scholar Series: Dr. Lisa Barnes (Main Lecture)

Risk and Protective Factors of Cognitive Aging in Older African Americans

March 13, 2024

10:00 AM - 11:30 AM America/Chicago

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Older African Americans, a rapidly growing segment of the US population, are under-represented in clinical research studies of aging. They also bear a disproportionate burden of Alzheimer’s disease and cognitive impairment compared to non-Latinx Whites, with some estimates suggesting a two-fold higher risk. This presentation will present a program of research, ongoing for 20 years, to identify correlates of cognitive aging and risk of Alzheimer’s disease among older African Americans. The importance of the lived experience and other contextual factors will be discussed.

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Dr. Dennis Sparta
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Date posted

Feb 5, 2024

Date updated

Feb 27, 2024

Speakers

Dr. Lisa Barnes | Alla V. and Solomon Jesmer Professor of Gerontology and Geriatric Medicine and a cognitive neuropsychologist within the Rush Alzheimer’s Disease Center at Rush University Medical Center & Associate Director of the Rush Alzheimer’s Disease Research Center

Lisa L. Barnes, PhD is the Alla V. and Solomon Jesmer Professor of Gerontology and Geriatric Medicine and a cognitive neuropsychologist within the Rush Alzheimer’s Disease Center at Rush University Medical Center. She is also the Associate Director of the Rush Alzheimer’s Disease Research Center. She received her PhD from the University of Michigan in biopsychology and completed a post-doctoral fellowship in cognitive neuroscience at the University of California, Davis. She has been a faculty member at Rush Medical College since 1999. Dr. Barnes has received many NIH grants and has published over 300 manuscripts. Her research interests include disparities in chronic diseases of aging, cognitive decline, and risk factors for Alzheimer’s disease. She is the Principal Investigator of the Minority Aging Research Study (MARS), which has been funded by NIA since 2004, and the Clinical Core Leader for the Rush African American Clinical Core. She advocates for recruitment of under-represented groups into clinical studies and has received many awards and fellowships.