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2025-2026 Seminar Archive
2025-2026 Seminar Archive
2/13/26 - Kun Wang, PhD, MSW
Assistant Professor
Department of Social Work
College of Arts and Sciences
UABPresentation: "Evolving Digital Engagement Among Racial/Ethnic Minority Older Adults in the United States"
1/9/26 - Justin Turner, MD, PhD
Professor and Chair
Department of Otolaryngology - Head and Neck Surgery
UABPresentation: "Immune Dysregulation and Aging: Evolving Insights into CRS Pathogenesis and Therapy"
12/8/25 - Reed Bratches, PhD
Assistant Professor
Department of Acute, Chronic, and Continuing Care
School of Nursing
UABPresentation: "Medication management and care-resistant behaviors in dementia: strategies, challenges, and the experiences of family caregivers"
11/14/25 - Meghan Hirsch, PhD
Postdoctoral Fellow
Division of Pulmonary, Allergy, and Critical Care
Department of Medicine
UABPresentation: "The Role of Fibroblast Growth Factor Signaling on Cellular Senescence in the Cystic Fibrosis Airways"
10/10/25 - Yi Lin, PhD
Instructor
Division of Gerontology, Geriatrics, and Palliative Care
Department of Medicine
UABPresentation: "Bridging Technology and Lifestyle Intervention to Preserve Function in Older Adults"
9/12/25 - Bryan Becker, PhD
Assistant Professor
Division of Nephrology
Department of Medicine
UAB
Presentation: "Connections between circadian rhythms and hydrocephalus, early results of the CHORUS study"
7/25/25 - Reem Waziry, PhD
Associate Research Scientist
Vagelos College of Physicians & Surgeons
Columbia UniversityPresentation: "Translation and Integration of Advanced Causal Inference, Machine Learning and Big Data to Inform Clinical Trials on ADRD and Cognitive Aging"
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2024-2025 Seminar Archive
2024-2025 Seminar Archive
5/9/25 - Stephanie Wilson, PhD
Assistant Professor
Department of Psychology
College of Arts and Sciences
UABPresentation: "Aging together, for better and worse: Social relationships and their ties to healthy aging"
4/11/25 - Jerri Edwards, PhD
Professor
Department of Psychiatry - Behavioral Neurobiology
UABPresentation: "Cognitive Engagement as Compared to Cognitive Training in Healthy Older Adults"
3/14/25 - Jenny Marwitz, MA
Director, TBI Research
Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation
UABPresentation: "Traumatic Brain Injury among Older Adults: Long-term Follow-up in an Inpatient Rehabilitation Sample"
2/24/25 - Jacob Allen, PhD
Assistant Professor
Department of Health and Kinesiology
University of IllinoisPresentation: "Exercise and fermented foods to promote immune-modifying microbial metabolites"
1/10/25 - Raegan Durant, MD, MPH
Professor
Division of General Internal Medicine and Population Science
Department of Medicine
UABPresentation: "Deep South RCMAR: Lessons Learned in Growing Health Equity and Aging Research"
10/11/24 - Hjalmar Bouma, MD, PhD, EuCP
Physician Researcher and Adjunct Professor
University Medical Center Groningen, The Netherlands
Presentation: "Energy Crisis in Sepsis: Consequences for Health and Life Span"
9/13/24 - Monica Aswani, DrPH
Assistant Professor
School of Health Professions
UABPresentation: "Hospital Admissions Reduction Program: Who is a peer?"
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2023-2024 Seminar Archive
2023-2024 Seminar Archive
5/10/24 - Rachel Wells, PhD
Assistant Professor
School of Nursing
UABPresentation: "Developing and Optimizing Pain Intervention Strategies: The ADAPT HF Navigator Approach"
Joint presentation with Shena Gazaway, PhD
5/10/24 - Shena Gazaway, PhD
Assistant Professor
School of Nursing
UABPresentation: "Developing and Optimizing Pain Intervention Strategies: The ADAPT HF Navigator Approach"
Joint presentation with Rachel Wells, PhD
4/12/24 - G.M. Anantharamaiah, PhD
Professor Emeritus
Medicine - Gerontology, Geriatrics, and Palliative Care
UABPresentation: "Cholesterol reducing and anti-inflammatory functions of apolipoprotein mimetic peptides to lipid-mediated diseases"
3/8/24 - Edmund Arthur, OD, PhD, FAAO
Assistant Professor
Department of Optometry and Vision Science, School of Optometry
UABPresentation: "Quantifying Preclinical Retinal Changes in Diabetic Retinopathy"
2/9/24 - Ahmed Lawan, PhD
Assistant Professor
Department of Biological Sciences
University of Alabama in HuntsvillePresentation: "Protein Tyrosine Phosphatases: from lipid and glucose control, to senescence regulation"
1/12/24 - Margaret Bell, PhD
Postdoctoral Fellow
Department of Pathology, Division of Molecular and Cellular Pathology
UABPresentation: "Mitochondrial dysfunction in Alzheimer's Disease"
12/8/23 - Ryan Coute, DO & Dylana Adams, MD

Ryan Coute, DO
Assistant Professor
Department of Emergency Medicine
UAB

Dylana Adams, MD
PGY-2
Department of Emergency Medicine
UABPresentation: "Development of the Surviving Out-of-Hospital Cardiac Arrest Prediction Score "
11/17/23 - David Englund, PhD, MS
Postdoctoral Fellow
Mayo ClinicPresentation: "The Role of Cellular Senescence in Skeletal Muscle Loss and Dysfunction"
10/13/23 - Joseph McQuail, PhD
Assistant Professor
Department of Pharmacology, Physiology, and Neuroscience, School of Medicine Columbia
University of South CarolinaPresentation: "Modifiable Risk Factors for Age-Related Memory Loss"
9/8/2023 - Robert Mankowski, PhD
Assistant Professor
Department of Physiology and Aging
University of FloridaPresentation: "Toward Precision Medicine in Prevention of Physical Disability in Older Adults"
8/28/23 - Shalini Jain, PhD
Assistant Professor
Department of Neurosurgery and Brain Repair
University of South FloridaPresentation: "The Microbiome's Potential: A New Horizon for Brain Health in Aging Cancer Survivors"
8/25/23 - Rachel Skains, MD, MSPH
Assistant Professor
Department of Emergency Medicine
UABPresentation: "Geriatric ED: The Missing Link in an Age-Friendly Healthcare System"
6/23/23 - Hariom Yadav, PhD
Director, USF Center for Microbiome Research; Assistant Professor
Department of Neurosurgery and Brain Repair
University of South FloridaPresentation: "Connection between gut-brain and what goes wrong during aging"