Seminar Series

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:  Topic TBD 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:  Topic TBD Chanee Fabius, PhD - 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:  Topic TBD Katherine Ornstein, PhD - Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Nursing 
   

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