A key ingredient to the appeal and success of #MELODEM2025 (as with other #MELODEM mtgs) comes from the generous blocks of time dedicated to discussion. And a key ingredient of that discussion is excellent moderating.
Tomorrow's #MELODEM working group session, at 11am US ET, features Neal Jawadekar presenting:
"#Statin Use and #Dementia: Heterogeneous Treatment Effects and Optimal Treatment Rules."
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TODAY at 11A US ET, #MELODEM brings you @relajoie.bsky.social and Ganna Blazhenets presenting:
"Harmonization of #amyloid-PET quantification for #ADRD research: putting #Centiloids to the test"
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This week, #MELODEM features Dr. Sebastian Walsh presenting:
"The value of a population-level lens in #dementia research: examples from prevention and treatment"
Th Feb 6 @ 11a US ET.
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4 days left to apply to attend the annual in-person meeting of #MELODEM.
#MELODEM, your favorite place to hash out #methodologic challenges in #dementia research, kicks off 2025 w a session ft Dr. Miguel Arce & Dr. Emily Briceño-Abreu conversing abt "Cross-national harmonization of the Harmonized Cognitive Assessment Protocol (HCAP)."
Th Jan 16, 11a US ET via zoom.
**Jan 27, 2025** <-- the last day to apply for the In-Person Meeting of #MELODEM, a sumptuous convening to collaboratively scratch heads (one's own, just so we're clear) and generate solutions to #methodologic challenges in longitudinal #dementia research.
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#MELODEM is accepting applications--by 1/27/25--to participate in this year's Annual In-Person Meeting!
The meeting features:
Jun 23-25: presentations w extensive discussion
Jun 25-27: hands-on data workshop, involving a subset of participants
See deets & apply:
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In 110 minutes ...
Dr. Audrey Murchland presents "Intimate Partner Violence and #Dementia Risk: Challenges and Opportunities for Longitudinal Studies of Aging"
#MELODEM
Thanks, NIH-NIA
TOMORROW's episode of #MELODEM features...
Dr. Audrey Murchland presenting:
"Intimate Partner Violence and #Dementia Risk: Challenges and Opportunities for Longitudinal Studies of Aging."
11a US ET
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A reminder that we post videos and slide sets of #MELODEM talks on our always-evolving site.
{🔥 MELODEM hosts conversations on #methods for addressing vexing challenges in research on #dementia #cognition 🔥}
Tmw (Th) 11a US ET on channel #MELODEM:
Yingyan Wu: "How to assess #cognitivedecline when test administration changes across study waves? #Harmonizing cognitive scores across waves in the China Health & Retirement Longitudinal Study"
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In 12 minutes (11a EST), #MELODEM will feature Dr. Vijaya Kolachalama presenting "Multimodal machine learning for differential #dementia diagnosis."
Tomorrow (Th) @11a US ET: Dr. Maria Glymour, Prof & Chair of Epidemiology at BUSPH, and co-founder of #MELODEM, presents: “Evidence Triangulation.”
She will be joined by Sirena Gutierrez, a PhD candidate in Epidemiology and Translational Science at UCSF.
#dementia #methodschallenges
#MELODEM fans: We're delighted to announce our Annual In-Person Meeting!
When: June 26-July 1, 2024
Where: The countryside outside of Paris, France
Deadline to apply to attend: Jan 29, 2024, 11:59p US Pac Time
Invitation decisions: issued by Mar 1, 2024 More info + apply: tinyurl.com/5ahja9tm
In 30 minutes! Today in #MELODEM, Dr. Zachary Kunicki presents: "Understanding Normative #Cognitive Aging."
Dr. @statszach.bsky.social is an asst professor in the Dept of Psychiatry and Human Behavior at the Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown U.
Email melodem@bu.edu for a zoom link!
The incomparable #dementia epidemiologist/biostatistician, Dr. @cdufouil.bsky.social, presents at this week's #MELODEM (11/16 @11a US ET). She is research director at Bordeaux Population Health Inserm Center, & co-director of the VINTAGE team.
Email melodem@bu.edu for the zoom link.
Have thoughts abt the AAIC proposed dx criteria for #AD?
Planning to respond to the solicitation for feedback by the deadline, Thu 11/16?
#MELODEM is cataloging comments from colleagues (link below). If you would like to share your own, email melodem@bu.edu.
What might the implications be of the draft revised guidelines for #AlzheimersDisease diagnosis, developed by the Alz Assn?
We discuss @ this Thursday's #MELODEM, following intro remarks by Dr. Deborah Blacker.
[[ 11a US ET/8a US PT/4p Bordeaux Time ]]
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On Nov 2 @11a US ET, #MELODEM hosts a convo on implications of the draft revised #AlzDisease diagnosis & staging guidelines put forth by the AlzAssn.
Dr. Deborah Blacker will start us off w orienting remarks.
Email melodem.group@gmail.com for zoomlink
aaic.alz.org/diagnostic-c...
#MELODEM working group starts in 48, 47, 46, 45, 44 ... minutes, i.e., at 11am US ET.
#dementia
#methodology
#life
TMRW @11a US ET: #MELODEM welcomes Dr. Aayush Khadka, presenting:
"Using quantile regressions to evaluate heterogeneities in the education-cognitive decline relationship," ft estimating the effect of Vietnam-era GI Bill eligibility on #cognitivedecline.
Email melodem_group @ gmail for zoom link.
