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Rhoda Au
Rhoda Au, Principal Investigator

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.

 

Julie Bynum
Julie Bynum, Principal Investigator

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.

 

Kathleen McGarry
Kathleen M. McGarry, Principal Investigator

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.

 

Susan Stewart
Susan Stewart, Director

Susan Stewart is a gerontologist with a long record of collaborating with economists to study the relationship between inputs to the health care system and outputs as measured by population health status and quality-adjusted life expectancy. Before joining the Coordinating Center, she was a research specialist for nearly two decades on the NIA-funded Satellite National Health Accounts (NHA) project.

Supported by the National Institute on Aging grant #1579971

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