ISTAART Relay Podcast - Diversity And Disparities PIA
The Dementia Researcher, ISTAART Relay Podcast is back for a fourth series. Five leading researchers discussing their research, their field, and the work of the Alzheimer\u2019s Association ISTAART Professional Interest Area they represent.\n--\n\nPart Four \u2013 Dr Dave Cash interviews Dr Shana D Stites representing the Diversity & Disparities PIA.\n--\n\nDave Cash is a Principal Research Fellow at University College London. Dave is a biomedical engineer that has worked predominantly in imaging (never let him near your wet lab if you like your glassware). His PhD involved image guided liver surgery at Vanderbilt University, and in 2005, he picked up and moved from the southern United States to London to do a post-doc. That led him to an opportunity to get involved in Alzheimer's disease trials. Dave is representing the ISTAART Neuroimaging PIA.\n--\n\nShana Stites is an Assistant Professor at University of Pennsylvania. As a clinical psychologist and researcher with the Penn Project on Precision Medicine for the Brain (P3MB), Shana\u2019s research focuses on advancing diagnosis and treatment of Alzheimer\u2019s. The goal is to understand ways to promote quality of life and psychological wellbeing. This includes understanding the impacts of the disease on individuals who may be directly affected by pathology as well as their family members. As part of this work, Shana has a special focus on better understanding how aspects of identity, such as age, gender, and race, operate as determinants in the disease experience. Shana is representing the ISTAART Diversity & Disparities PIA.\n--\n\nThe Alzheimer\u2019s Association International Society to Advance Alzheimer\u2019s Research and Treatment (ISTAART) convenes the global Alzheimer\u2019s and dementia science community. Members share knowledge, fuel collaboration and advance research to find more effective ways to detect, treat and prevent Alzheimer\u2019s and other dementias. Professional Interest Areas (PIA) are an assembly of ISTAART members with common subspecialties or interests.\n--\n\nThere are currently 29 PIAs covering a wide range of interests and fields, from the PIA to Elevate Early Career Researchers to Biofluid Based Biomarkers and everything in between.\n\nTo sign-up to ISTAART and a PIA visit:\nhttps://istaart.alz.org\n\nNote: ISTAART Membership is free for students worldwide, and for researchers of all levels based in Low- and Middle-Income Countries.\n--\n\nTo book your place at this year\u2019s AAIC (In-person and online) visit:\nhttps://aaic.alz.org \n--\n\nYou can also enjoy this show as a video podcast on our YouTube Channel at: https://youtu.be/VyKhWR4bQpc\n--\n\nFind more information on our guests, and a full transcript of this podcast on our website at: https://www.dementiaresearcher.nihr.ac.uk/podcast \n--\n\nThe views and opinions expressed by guests in this podcast represent those of the guests and do not necessarily reflect those of NIHR Dementia Researchers, PIA membership, ISTAART or the Alzheimer's Association.