Annual Hillblom Cognitive Aging Symposium
In 2021, we hosted the 6th Annual Hillblom Cognitive Aging Symposium, a scientific symposium bringing together researchers from around the state and country to share their expertise and spur important conversations around aging.
Recording of 2021 Annual Cognitive Aging Symposium

2021 Symposium Speakers:

 

CHARLIE DECARLI, MD, Professor and Director, UC Davis Alzheimer’s Disease Center

biological bases of cognitive aging

ADAM BRICKMAN, PhD, Professor of Neurology, Columbia University,
Taub Institute for Research on Alzheimer’s Disease and the Aging Brain is vascular brain injury a part of Alzheimer's disease 

PAULINE MAILLARD, PhD, UC Davis Neuroimaging Core Associate, Professional Researcher

new imaging biomarkers of cerebrovascular disease 

JASON D. HINMAN, MD, PhD, Associate Professor & Vice Chair
of Research, UCLA Department of Neurology

circulating silence: blood-based biomarkers for silent cerebral edema and brain vascular injury

FANNY ELAHI, MD, PhD, Assistant Professor, UCSF Memory and Aging Center

a precision medicine approach to identify therapeutic targets in vascular brain aging to prevent dementia 

KAITLIN CASALETTO, PhD, Assistant Professor, UCSF Memory and Aging Center

synaptic aging: a target for "cognitive resilience"? 

BRETON ASKEN, PhD, Neuropsychology Fellow, UCSF Memory and Aging Center

memory loss in older adults: is it always alzheimer's disease? 

TARA TRACY, PhD, Assistant Professor, The Buck Institute

impact of kibra and cognitive decline in cognitive aging 

JESSICA DELEON, MD, Assistant Professor, UCSF Memory and Aging Center

the role of bilingualism in health aging  

2020 Symposium Presenters 

Emily Jacobs, PhD, UC Santa Barbara

Interrogating the Role of Sex Steroid Hormones in the Human Brain

Dena Dubal, PhD, Associate Professor of Neurology, UCSF

Contribution of the X Chromosome to Alzheimer’s Disease

Ignacio Illan-Gala, MD, GBHI Atlantic Fellow 

Sex Differences in the Behavioral Variant of Frontotemporal Dementia:
A New Window to Executive and Behavioral Resilience

William Honer, MD, Professor and Psychiatry Deparment Chair at the University of British Columbia 

A Molecular Substrate for Neural Reserve

Yaakov Stern, PhD, Professor, Taub Research Institute for Research on Alzheimer's Disease and the Aging Brain

An Update on Cognitive Reserve

Kaitlin Casaletto, PhD, Assistant Professor, UCSF Memory and Aging Center

Biological Sex: A Model of Cognitive Resilience or Vulnerability?

Cutter Lindbergh, PhD, Neuropsychology Postdoctoral Fellow, UCSF Memory and Aging Center

Wisdom is Dissociable from Cognitive Functions that Decline with Age:
Implications for Resilience

Tina Hoang, MPH, UCSF Center for Population Brain Health

Physical Activity, TV Watching, and Brain Health in Mid-Life

Erica Kornblith, PhD, San Francisco VA Medical Center

Race and Sex Differences in Incidence of Dementia Among Older Veterans

Neus Falgas, MD, GBHI Atlantic Fellow

Disrupted Sleep: Both a Risk Factor and Symptom of Diminished Resilience 

 

 

 

 2019 Symposium Presenters:

Emily Manoogian, PhD

Circadian Rhythms, Time-Restricted Eating, and Cardiometabolic Health 

Christine Walsh, PhD

Neural Correlates of Sleep 

Adam Schroer, PhD

Young Platelet-Derived Factors Promote Rejuvenation of the Aged Hippocampus 

Joanna Hellmuth, MD, MHS

The Virome in Cognitive Aging 

Tiffany Chow, PhD

Empathy Grows with Amyloid-β Positivity 

Cutter Lindbergh, PhD

Sex, β-Amyloid, and Cognition in Older Adults 

 Alexandra Apple, PhD

Investigating Connectivity and Inflammation as Functional Correlates of Memory Resilience to Cognitive Aging 

Devyn Cotter, BS, MS

Irritability and its Associations with Immuno-Vascular Risk Factors in the Aging Brain 

 

Sophia Weiner-Light, BA 

Stress and Limbic Grey Matter: The Role of Physical Activity 

 

Harli Grant, BA

Exercise, Aging and White Matter Integrity 

Corrina Fonseca, BS

Anxiety Associated with Cerebral Blood Flow in Nodes of the Salience Network 

Slides from Past Symposiums:

Slides from 2nd Annual (2017)
Slides from 3rd Annual (2018)