2017 RCMAR Annual Investigators Meeting: How the Community is Impacted by Research
Overview
The meeting being held at the Hotel Kabuki will bring together the latest findings in minority aging research. Through plenary presentations, conversations with experts, networking and work group meetings, attendees will gain a wealth of new information and the infrastructure to support long-term mentoring relationships.
Location
The meeting is scheduled to take place at Hotel Kabuki located at 1625 Post. St., San Francisco CA
Agenda
Tuesday, April 11
| 5:00 pm – 7:00 pm | Networking Reception (Optional Reception, additional no cost registration required) |
(Spring Foyer) |
Wednesday, April 12
| 8:00 am – 12:00 pm | Scholar Workshop on Grant writing (Optional workshop, additional no cost registration required) |
(Spring) |
| 11:30 am – 1:00 pm | Annual Meeting Check in/Registration | |
| 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm | Lunch Buffet | (Sakura BC) |
| 1:00 pm – 1:15 pm | General Session Welcome
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(Sakura A) |
| 1:15 pm – 2:00 pm | Opening Keynote Presentation Hannah Valantine, M.D. Chief Officer for Scientific Workforce Diversity National Institutes of Health |
(Sakura A) |
| 2:00 pm – 2:30 pm | Completed Works by Scholars (30 minutes each) Social Relationships and depressive symptom typologies Among African Americans Ann Nguyen, MSW, PhD Minority Aging Health Economics Research Center (USC RCMAR) University of Southern California |
(Sakura A) |
| 2:30 pm – 3:00 pm | Understanding Perceptions of Advance Care Planning by Race and Health Status Hyunjin Noh, PhD Deep South Resource Center for Minority Aging Research (Deep South) RCMAR University of Alabama at Birmingham(Continued) |
(Sakura A) |
| 3:00 pm – 3:20 pm | Break | (Sakura A) |
| 3:20 pm – 3:50 pm | Continued Completed Works by Scholars Racial/ethnic differences in dementia incidence and survival: what can survival after dementia diagnosis tell us about timing of diagnosis? Elizabeth R. Mayeda, PhD Center for Aging in Diverse Communities (CADC)/RCMAR University of California, San Francisco |
(Sakura A) |
| 3:50 pm – 4:50 pm | Keynote Presentation Jonathan Stevens Senior Vice President, Thought Leadership-Health Policy, Research and International Affairs AARP OR Erwin Tan, M.D. Director, Thought Leadership-Health Policy, Research and International Affairs AARP |
(Sakura A) |
| 4:50 pm – 5:00 pm | Conclude (Day 1) | (Sakura A) |
| 6:00 pm – 8:00 pm | Dinner | (Imperial A) |
Thursday, April 13
| 7:30 am – 9:00 am | Continental breakfast | (Sakura A) |
| 7:45 am – 9:00 am | Scholar meetingwith National Institutes of Health representatives Lis Nielsen, Ph.D., Carl Hill, Ph.D., M.P.H. (Tentative) closed meeting scholars only |
(Spring BC) |
| 7:45 am – 9:00 am | Core Meetings:
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(Imperial A) (Osaka) (Spring A) |
| 9:00 am – 9:15 am | Day 2 Meeting Overview Nina Harawa, Ph.D. RCMAR National Coordinating Center (Coordinating Center) University of California, Los Angeles |
(Sakura A) |
| 9:15 am – 11:15 am | Scholar Video Recordings(closed recording session) | (TBD) |
| 9:15 am – 9:45 am | (Continued) Completed Works by Scholars Cherokee Perspectives on Land Use and Health: Merging Elder Knowledge and Tribal Policy Clint Carroll, PhD Native Elder Research Center (NERC)/RCMAR University of Colorado, Denver| Washington State University, Spokane |
(Sakura A) |
| 9:45 am – 10:15am | Idea Density as a Predictor of Cognitive Trajectories Across Four Ethnolinguistic Groups Vineeta Chand, PhD Latino Aging Research Resource Center (LARRC)/ RCMAR University of California, Davis |
(Sakura A) |
| 10:30 am – 12:00pm | Simultaneous Breakout Presentations | (Breakouts will take place in the following rooms: Imperial A, Osaka, Spring BC, Spring A and Sakura A if needed) |
| 12:00 am – 1:00 pm | Lunch | (Sakura B,C) |
| 12:00 am – 1:00 pm | Directors’ meeting (Closed Meeting) |
(TBD) |
| 1:00 pm – 2:15 pm | Community-centered Translational Behavioral Research to Reduce Health Disparities in Older Adults Moderators: Carmen Reyes and Anna NápolesPanelists:
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(Sakura A) |
| 2:15 pm – 2:30 pm | Break | |
| 2:30 pm – 3:30 pm | Simultaneous Breakout Presentations | (Breakouts will take place in the following rooms: Imperial A, Osaka, Spring BC, Spring A and Sakura A if needed) |
| 3:30 pm – 4:15 pm | A Community-Based Randomized Control Trial (RCT) on an Educational Intervention, “Yo Planeo Mi Retiro,” to Promote Retirement Planning Among Hispanic Women Luisa R. Blanco, PhD, MBA Center for Health Improvement of Minority Elderly (CHIME)/RCMAR Pepperdine University |
(Sakura A) |
| 4:15 pm – 4:45 pm | Gender Differences in Romantic Involvement and Desire Among Older African Americans Dawne M. Mouzon, PhD Michigan Center for Urban African American Aging Research (MCUAAAR/RCMAR) University of Michigan | Wayne State University |
(Sakura A) |
| 4:45 pm – 5:00 pm | Concluding Remarks/Evaluations | (Sakura A) |