Seminar Series

Join the HEADS Center for monthly seminars on a variety of topics and research areas related to improving the care and lives of those affected by Alzheimer’s disease and related dementias. You can also access recordings of recent seminars on our YouTube page.  

Seminars are held from noon to 1 p.m. EST. 

Upcoming Seminar 

May 15, 2024: "Comparing Home Health Use Among Persons Living With Dementia in Traditional Medicare and Medicare Advantage," featuring speakers Jamie M. Smith, PhD, RN, and Jianhiu (Frank) Xu, PhD

2024 Seminars

  • January 17, 2024: Dementia Home- and Community-Based Services: Rebalancing Impacts, Access Disparities, and Quality Measurement," featuring Regina Shih, PhD- Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
  • February 21, 2024: The Dementia Workforce Study, featuring Donovan Maust, MD, MS, from the University of Michigan and Joanne Spetz, PhD, from UCSF
  • March 20, 2024: Improving the Value of Care for People Living with Alzheimer’s Disease and Related Dementias: A Cost-Effectiveness Study, featuring speaker Eric Jutkowitz, PhD, from Brown University.
  • April 20, 2024: Patient Portal Messaging: An Opportunity to Identify and Support Care Partners of Persons with Dementia, featuring speaker Kelly Gleason, PhD, from the Johns Hopkins School of Nursing.
  • May 15, 2024: Comparing Home Health Use Among Persons Living With Dementia in Traditional Medicare and Medicare Advantage, featuring speakers Jamie M. Smith, PhD, RN, and Jianhiu (Frank) Xu, PhD

2023 Seminars 

  • January 18, 2023:  Dying with Dementia: Economic, Regulatory, and Social Forces Shaping Hospice Care Today Lauren Hunt, PhD, FNP - University of California, San Francisco, School of Nursing 
  • February 15, 2023:  Medicaid Policy Factors and Long Term Care for Older Adults Karen Shen, PhD- Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
  • March 15, 2023:  Year 3 Pilot: Care Partners and Support of Older Adults with Hearing Loss and Dementia Danielle Powell, AuD, PhD - Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health 
  • April 19, 2023:  The Role of Place in Person- and Family-Oriented Long-Term Services and Supports Chanee Fabius, PhD, Safiyyah Okoye, PhD (Drexel University), MJ Mingche Wu, MSPH- Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
  • May 17, 2023:  Year 3 Pilot: Health Care Service Utilization and Cost of Hip Fracture Care in Older Adults with Dementia  Lisa Reider, PhD - Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health 
  • June 21, 2023:  Home-based clinical care for persons with dementia Katherine Ornstein, PhD- Johns Hopkins School of Nursing
  • September 13, 2023: Year 4 (2023-24) HEADS Pilot Lightning Talks- Kelly Gleason, PhD, Johns Hopkins School of Nursing, Jevay Grooms, PhD, Howard University, Ravi Gupta, MD, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Jamie Smith, PhD, Johns Hopkins School of Nursing and Frank Xu, PhD, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Mariana Socal, MD, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, and Judith Vick, MD, National Clinician Scholars Program, Duke University and Durham VA 
  • October 11, 2023: Facilitating Access to Health Insurance Claims Data for Research on ADRD and the Business of Health Dan Polsky, PhD and Jianhui (Frank) Xu, PhD- Johns Hopkins Carey Business School/Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
  • November 15, 2023: Assisted Living Residents with Dementia and the State Policies that Influence their Care- Kali Thomas, PhD- Johns Hopkins School of Nursing
  • December 13, 2023: Harmonization of Later-Life Cognitive Function Across National Contexts: Results from the Harmonized Cognitive Assessment Protocols (HCAPs)  Alden Gross, PhD- Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health

2022 Seminars 

  • December 14, 2022:  Year 3 Pilot: An Economic Approach to Mental Health and Cognitive Ability in the Elderly Michael Darden, PhD - Johns Hopkins Carey Business School 
  • November 16, 2022:  Applied Predictive Modeling for Alzheimer's and Related Dementias Ian Stockwell, PhD- University of Maryland Baltimore County (UMBC) & Leigh Goetschius, PhD - The Hilltop Institute, UMBC 
  • October 19, 2022:  Facilitating Access to Data Resources for ADRD Research Dan Polsky, PhD, Matt Eisenberg, PhD, and Jianhui (Frank) Xu, PhD - Johns Hopkins Carey Business School/Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health WATCH THE RECORDING 
  • September 21, 2022:  Year 2 Pilot: Examining Emergency Department Length of Stay for Older Adults with Dementia Stephanie Nothelle, MD - Johns Hopkins School of Medicine 
  • June 15, 2022:  Topic TBD Melinda Power, ScD- George Washington University (GWU) Milken Institute School of Public Health 
  • May 18, 2022:  Year 2 HEADS Pilot: Dementia and vision impairment: Economic consequences for patients and caregivers Varshini Varadaraj, MD, MPH- Johns Hopkins School of Medicine 
  • April 20, 2022:  Book Discussion- The Problem of Alzheimer's: How Science, Culture, and Politics Turned a Rare Disease into a Crisis and What We Can Do About It Jason Karlawish, MD, University of Pennsylvania Penn Memory Center 
  • March 16, 2022:  Year 2 HEADS Pilot: Use of high cost care among Veterans with comorbid mental illness and Alzheimer’s and related dementia Megan Shepherd-Banigan, PhD, MPH- Duke University, Department of Population Health Science and School of Medicine 
  • February 16, 2022:  Virginia I. Jones ADRD Council Quincy Samus, PhD- Johns Hopkins Medicine/School of Public Health 
  • January 19, 2022:  Accuracy of Patient Safety Measures in U.S. Nursing Home Ratings Prachi Sanghavi, PhD- The University of Chicago Biological Sciences 

Past Seminars 

  • December 15, 2021, 1:30-2:30pm: Applying Precision Medicine to ADRD: Addressing Challenges of Payment and Economic Value Jeroen Jansen, PhD and Kathryn Phillips, PhD- University of California, San Francisco 
  • December 8, 2021: The Women’s Health Access Matters (WHAM) Report: Research Funding for Women’s Health- Modeling Societal Impact of Investment for Alzheimer’s Disease and Related Dementias Carolee Lee- Founder & CEO, WHAM and AccessCircles and Lori Frank, PhD, RAND Corporation 
  • November 17, 2021: Year 1 HEADS Pilot: Value of EHR's free text in measuring the prevalence of ADRD diagnosis: An observational study using JHMI data Hadi Kharrazi, MD, PhD- Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health 
  • October 20, 2021: Alzheimer's in Maryland Hospital-Based Data Conan Dickson, PhD- Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health 
  • September 15, 2021: Year 2 HEADS Pilot: Genetic Endowments, Alzheimer's Disease and Economic Outcomes Nicholas Papageorge, PhD- Johns Hopkins University, Department of Economics 
  • June 16, 2021: What Can Economics Say About Alzheimer's Disease? Amitabh Chandra, PhD - Harvard Business School 
  • May 12, 2021: Are people aware of their cognitive decline? Misperception and financial decision making. Franco Peracchi, PhD- University of Rome Tor Vergata, Department of Economics and Finance  
  • April 14, 2021: Using Population and Systems Level Data to Improve Timely Diagnosis and Care for Dementia Halima Amjad, MD - Johns Hopkins School of Medicine 
  • March 17, 2021: Year 1 Pilot: Variation in Medicare Home Health Costs Associated with Patient Cognitive Impairment Julia Burgdorf, PhD - Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health 
  • February 17, 2021: Year 1 Pilots: Race Differences in Characteristics and Experiences of Black and White Caregivers of Older Americans Chanee Fabius, PhD and Assessing State Variability in Measures of Dementia Prevalence Emmanuel Drabo, PhD- Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health 
  • January 27, 2021: HEADS Center Remote Data Enclave (RDEC) Dan Polsky, PhD and Matt Eisenberg, PhD