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The MCOA team was excited to attend the GSA 2023 Annual Scientific Meeting. MCOA fellow Dr. Uma Kelekar and MCOA Affiliate Dr. Sara Pappa presented their work on unsafe home environments on older adult falls and evidence-based falls prevention programs respectively. MCOA Director, Dr. Patricia Heyn led the GSA Diversity Mentoring & Career Development Technical […]

Dr. Catherine Diaz-Asper presented her research on using artificial intelligence to detect cognitive decline at the 2023 Clinical Trials on Alzheimer's Disease conference in late October. Her approach analyzes speech by combining advances in artificial intelligence with the convenience of the telephone to develop a screening tool that could reach many more people than current […]

Dr. Patricia Heyn led a special symposium delving into the intersection of racism and health inequity in rehabilitation science at the 2023 American Congress of Rehabilitation Medicine Annual Conference. The conference offered unparalleled opportunities to foster valuable connections within the rehabilitation field  and an abundance of tools, and nonstop content focused on chronic disabling conditions […]

Elizabeth Terhune, MS, Center for Optimal Aging Research Associate and a key investigator in the Racial Health Equity Research Project funded by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, presented her work on racial health equity at the 2023 International What Works Global Summit in Ottawa, Canada on On October 18, 2023. The center’s Racial Health Equity […]

Dr Patricia Heyn presented her work on understanding racial health equity terminology at the prestigious Cochrane Colloquium. This project funded by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation is one of six projects on centering racial health equity in systematic reviews and has a focus on definitions. The event, hosted by Cochrane, a global leader in evidence […]

Center Director, Dr. Patricia Heyn, and MCOA fellow, Dr. Uma Kelekar, presented their work titled: "Examining the Impacts of Coronavirus Disease 2019 Mitigation Policies on Health Outcomes of Older Adults: Lessons Learned From Six High-Income or Middle-Income Countries" at the 2022 GSA Annual Scientific meeting in Indianapolis. This article highlighted the role of public policies […]