NBER Coordinating Center on the Economics of AD/ADRD Prevention, Treatment, and Care
First Annual Meeting
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Panel Moderators
Rhoda Au, PhD
Principal Investigator, NBER Coordinating Center on the Economics of AD/ADRD
About: Rhoda Au is Professor of Anatomy and Neurobiology, Neurology, Medicine & Epidemiology at the Boston University Chobanian & Avedisian School of Medicine and School of Public Health, and one of the PIs of the Framingham Heart Study Brain Aging Program, where she is Director of Neuropsychology. She is also part of the Diagnostics Accelerator, which strives to fast-track the development of accessible and non-invasive tools to revolutionize AD diagnosis and treatment. She is Director of Global Cohort Development for the Davos Alzheimer’s Collaborative. Her research on cognitive aging and dementia focuses on using technology to develop a multi-sensory brain health monitoring platform that is customizable, technology agnostic, and scalable to allow for broad global representation in AD research.
Julie Bynum, MD
Principal Investigator, NBER Coordinating Center on the Economics of AD/ADRD
About: Julie Bynum is the Margaret Terpenning Professor of Internal Medicine at the University of Michigan Medical School and Director of the NIA-funded Center to Accelerate Population Research in Alzheimer’s (CAPRA). She is also PI on an R01 studying healthcare patterns across the full spectrum of cognitive decline in a racially diverse population, and on a state contract studying provision of long-term services in nursing homes and Medicaid waivers. She has been an Atlantic Philanthropies Health & Aging Policy Fellow and is a member of the National Academy of Medicine Forum on Aging, Disability and Independence. She received her medical and public health degrees from Johns Hopkins, did her residency at Dartmouth, and completed Geriatric Medicine specialty training at Johns Hopkins.
Kathleen M. McGarry, PhD
Principal Investigator, NBER Coordinating Center on the Economics of AD/ADRD
About: Kathleen McGarry is the Chair of the Economics Department at UCLA. She is a leading scholar in the study of long-term care expenditures, caregiving relationships and burdens within families. She is currently the Director of the NBER project on Alzheimer’s Disease and Approaches to Long-Term care in the United States and Around the World. She previously served as a senior economist at the Council of Economic Advisers and has had fellowships from the Brookdale Foundation and the National Bureau of Economic Research. Her research focus is on elderly well-being in relation to public and private transfers (i.e., Medicare and SSI programs) and resource transfer within families.