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Spring 2007 NewsletterADC HappeningsWelcomeThe BU ADC is pleased to welcome our new staff members: Caleb Bliss, data manager for the Data Core; Mario Orozco, clinical trial participant coordinator; Janet Callaghan, research nurse; and Susan Vanderhill, coordinator for the ADMIRE study and the ADC Education and Information Transfer Core. We also extend a warm welcome to our new student trainees: Moniek Damman and Welmoed Dekker from the Netherlands and Brian Panichella from Boston College. CongratulationsThe BU ADC would like to congratulate Drs. Carmela Abraham and Benjamin Wolozin for their invited attendance of the 100th anniversary of Dr. Alois Alzheimer’s lecture describing the symptoms and neuropathological examination of Auguste D, the first documented patient to suffer from a disease later named after Dr. Alzheimer. The meeting took place in November 2006 at the Psychiatric Institute in Tubingen, Germany. BU ADC student trainee Laura Byerly will be joining our staff as a psychometrician for the HOPE study following her graduation from Boston University this spring. Dr. Robert Green is the recipient of a K24 Mid-Career Investigator Award. Dr. Green will use this five-year NIH grant to discover and quantify ways of characterizing genetic risk for Alzheimer’s disease and to create and evaluate real-world procedures for communicating genetic risk. A major focus of this award is to mentor junior investigators in patient-oriented research. Dr. Kathy Horvath recently received funding from the VA Health Services Research and Development Program to conduct a clinical trial of a home safety intervention for patients with Alzheimer’s disease. This study will compare the efficacy of two methods of health education on caregiver and care-recipient outcomes. Valerie Nolen was recently appointed to the National Brain Health Initiative in partnership with the Center for Disease Control. GoodbyesMany thanks and best wishes to BU ADC faculty and staff who have recently taken on new positions: Suzette Levenson, former Data Core Director, is now Acting Associate Dean of Administration & Finance for the Boston University School of Public Health; Debra Hanna, former clinical research manager, is now completing her PhD in Nursing at the University of Massachusetts at Lowell; Emily Hubbard, former psychometrician, is now completing her Master’s in Public Health at Boston University School of Public Health; Stacy Carruth, former study coordinator, is now serving as a Community Health Specialist at the Regional Center for Healthy Communities; Kate Henderson, former participant coordinator, is now volunteering in public health in Peru; and Judy Hibschman, former HOPE psychometrician, is enrolling in the nurse practitioner program at Columbia University. Thanks also to our former pre-doctoral trainees, Kevin Blankevoort and Karin Volkers, and postdoctoral trainee, Dr. Hennie Lee, who have all returned to the Netherlands. |
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