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Friday, August 28, 2026 | 10:00am ET – 4:00pm ET (Virtual)
Workshop Overview & Objectives

The purpose of this one-day workshop is to bring together experts in the field to include current NIA NIH grantees and future NIHA applicants focused on the GUIDE model and/or other comprehensive dementia care models. The workshop will discuss differential access to GUIDE, impact of payment models in quality of care or access to care, and additional data that could be beneficial to researchers or GUIDE model healthcare providers. Furthermore, the workshop will address comprehensive dementia care models’ utility and challenges across the full disease continuum. The workshop participants will result in identifying potential research opportunities for dementia care coordination models and discuss available and needed data to address research gaps. Outputs should also inform researchers, patients, families, health systems, and federal partners working with GUIDE and other dementia care coordination programs. 


Questions?

If you have questions about the August 28th workshop, please email three members of the NIA planning team:





Tuesday, July 21 | 11am-12pm ET
Overview

July 22 is World Brain Day, a time to celebrate the significant scientific advancements that have been made in better understanding the brain. Research on cognitive aging is deepening our understanding of when and how the brain becomes vulnerable and offering clearer targets to protect cognitive health across the lifespan. At the same time, technological advances are helping identify, diagnose, and forecast brain activity and biological factors that impact cognitive changes. To explore the progress in brain health science, join the American Federation for Aging Research (AFAR) and the McKnight Brain Research Foundation (MBRF) for a free webinar pairing recipients of the McKnight Brain Research Foundation Innovator Awards in Cognitive Aging and Memory Loss with neurotech leaders for a conversation grounded in promising research and science-backed tools.


Moderated By

Alice Luo Clayton, PhD

Chief Executive Officer, McKnight Brain Research Foundation


Sergey Young

AFAR Board Member

BOLD Longevity Growth Fund

Author, The Science and Technology of Growing Young


Guest Speakers

Leah Acker, MD, PhD

Assistant Professor of Anesthesiology and Neurobiology,


Duke University Denise Cai, PhD

Associate Professor, Department of Neuroscience, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai


More speakers to be announced!





July 9, 2026 | 5pm ET (Virtual)

Dr. Paul García, MD, PhD is a Professor of Anesthesiology at Columbia University.


Dr. García’s research has been funded by the NIH, the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, and private foundations. His work focuses on perioperative neuroscience and the development of clinically actionable approaches to brain monitoring. He has led clinical investigations examining electroencephalographic (EEG) biomarkers of anesthetic state, nociception, emergence from anesthesia, postoperative delirium, and cognitive recovery after surgery. His research seeks to identify neurophysiologic signatures that can guide individualized anesthetic care and improve perioperative outcomes. Dr. García’s interests center on multidisciplinary clinical research that informs evidence-based practice and advances perioperative brain health across diverse surgical populations.



This annual series, hosted by the Northwell Roybal Center for Personalized Trials, features leading researchers at the intersection of aging-related topics including Alzheimer Disease and related dementias and physical activity.

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