Webinars and Training

2016 NADRC Webinar (March 3, 2016): Writing Effective Proposals: Tips for a Strong Application

Presenter: Dr. Joshua Wiener
The National Alzheimer’s and Dementia Resource Center presented the webinar—Writing Effective Proposals: Tips for a Strong Application—on March 3, 2016. Participants who attend this webinar will: (1) learn how to read a grant or contract announcement to identify the key requirements; (2) learn how to structure the proposal writing process; (3) better understand the key characteristics of strong proposals; and (4) learn what is important to proposal reviewers.

Also: proposal writing

PLEASE NOTE: Captions will automatically appear on the left side of the screen and the Closed Captioning tab in Youtube will not work.

https://youtu.be/HWRWTWu59Do

ACL/CDC/NIA Webinar Series on Alzheimer’s Disease and Related Dementias: Webinar #3 (September 25, 2014):
Alzheimer’s Research Updates

Featured speakers: Roberta Diaz Brinton, PhD, MA, and the R. Pete Vanderveen Chair in Therapeutic Discovery and Development, and a professor of pharmacology and pharmaceutical sciences at the University of Southern California, and the winner of the 2010 Presidential Citizens Medal for her work as the Director of USC’s Science Technology and Research Program; Suzanne Craft, PhD a Professor of Gerontology and Geriatric Medicine at Wake Forest University School of Medicine as well as the Co-director of the Roena B. Kulynych Center for Memory and Cognition Research; Anne Murray, MD MSc, a Professor of Medicine and Geriatrics at the University of Minnesota’s Medical School. She’s also a Geriatrician, Epidemiologist, Associate Medical Director of the Minneapolis Medical Research Foundation’s Berman Center for Clinical Research and the lead US Geriatrician for the NIA’s Aspirin and Reducing Events in the Elderly, or ASPREE, Research Study; and, Laura Gitlin, PhD, the Director of the Center for Innovative Care in Aging and a professor at Johns Hopkins University School of Nursing and School of Medicine where she specializes in non-pharmacologic approaches in dementia care.

Dementia: cognitive impairment, Alzheimer, Alzheimer’s disease, vascular, multi-infarct, frontotemporal lobar degeneration, FTD, aphasia primary progressive, AIDS, Lewy body disease, LBD, Pick, Picks disease, behavior

Audio is available upon request. Please contact Erin Long at erin.long@acl.hhs.gov.

ACL/CDC/NIA Webinar Series on Alzheimer’s Disease and Related Dementias: Webinar #3 (September 25, 2014):
Alzheimer’s Research Updates

Featured speakers: Roberta Diaz Brinton, PhD, MA, and the R. Pete Vanderveen Chair in Therapeutic Discovery and Development, and a professor of pharmacology and pharmaceutical sciences at the University of Southern California, and the winner of the 2010 Presidential Citizens Medal for her work as the Director of USC’s Science Technology and Research Program; Suzanne Craft, PhD a Professor of Gerontology and Geriatric Medicine at Wake Forest University School of Medicine as well as the Co-director of the Roena B. Kulynych Center for Memory and Cognition Research; Anne Murray, MD MSc, a Professor of Medicine and Geriatrics at the University of Minnesota’s Medical School. She’s also a Geriatrician, Epidemiologist, Associate Medical Director of the Minneapolis Medical Research Foundation’s Berman Center for Clinical Research and the lead US Geriatrician for the NIA’s Aspirin and Reducing Events in the Elderly, or ASPREE, Research Study; and, Laura Gitlin, PhD, the Director of the Center for Innovative Care in Aging and a professor at Johns Hopkins University School of Nursing and School of Medicine where she specializes in non-pharmacologic approaches in dementia care.

Dementia: cognitive impairment, Alzheimer, Alzheimer’s disease, vascular, multi-infarct, frontotemporal lobar degeneration, FTD, aphasia primary progressive, AIDS, Lewy body disease, LBD, Pick, Picks disease, behavior

Audio is available upon request. Please contact Erin Long at erin.long@acl.hhs.gov.

NIA/ACL Webinar Series (2013): Webinar #4 (August 20, 2013):
Younger Onset Dementia

This webinar will give an overview of the scale and scope of issues related to Younger Onset Dementia.

Speakers include: Creighton Phelps, Ph.D., Director of the Alzheimer’s Disease Centers Program with the National Institute on Aging; Darby Morhardt, MSW, LCSW, Research Associate Professor and Director of Education with the Cognitive Neurology and Alzheimer’s Disease Center at Northwestern University; Sandra Weintraub, Ph.D. with the Cognitive Neurology and Alzheimer’s Disease Center, Northwestern University; and Sharon Denny, Program Director with the Association for Frontotemporal Degeneration.

Also: young onset, early onset

Audio is available upon request. Please contact Erin Long at erin.long@acl.hhs.gov.