Conferences & Events
Cohort 3 and 4 ADNI Scholars at the ADNI4 Steering Committee Meeting in Atlanta, GA.
ADNI Graduate Student Scholar, Dr. Valerie Dorsant-Ardon delivers her Flash Talk "Analyzing Ancestry-Specific Genetic Modifiers of APOE Risk in Alzheimer's Disease" during the ADNI4 Steering Committee Meeting in Atlanta, GA.
ADNI Early Career Faculty Scholar, Dr. Charisse Winston delivers her Flash Talk "Metabolic Health and Obesity Phenotypes as Modifiers of Blood-Based Alzheimer's Disease Biomarkers in a Multi-Ethnic, ADNI Cohort" during the ADNI4 Steering Committee Meeting in Atlanta, GA.
Recognition of the ADNI Scholars during the 2026 ADNI4 Steering Committee Meeting in Atlanta, GA.
The HESP Program Directors, Drs. Ozioma Okonkwo and Monica Rivera Mindt present a progress update on the Health Enhancement Scientific Program during the 2026 ADNI4 Steering Committee Meeting in Atlanta, GA.
(L to R) HESP Scientist, Dr. Jackie Pontes Monteiro and ADNI Early Career Faculty Scholar, Dr. Amy Kemp at the Welcome Reception for the 2026 ADNI4 Steering Committee Meeting in Atlanta, GA.
ADNI Graduate Student Scholars (L to R), Mr. Neel Sangani and Ms. Shannon Lee at the Welcome Reception for the 2026 ADNI4 Steering Committee Meeting in Atlanta, GA.
(L to R) ADNI Early Career Faculty Scholar, Dr. Charisse Winston; HESP Research Scientist, Dr. Bri Breidenbach; HESP Data Scientist, Mr. Matt Glittenberg; and ADNI Postdoctoral Fellow Scholar, Dr. Sarah Prieto at the Welcome Reception for the 2026 ADNI4 Steering Committee Meeting in Atlanta, GA.
Dr. Ozioma Okonkwo and the ADNI Scholars at the Welcome Reception for the 2026 ADNI4 Steering Committee Meeting in Atlanta, GA.
ADNI Early Career Faculty Scholar, Dr. Miriam Ashford presents her poster " Associations Between Exposomic Measures and AD/ADRD Plasma Biomarkers among Ethnoculturally Diverse Older Adults: An ADNI-4 Investigation" at the 2026 Spring ADRC Meeting in Atlanta, GA.
Dr. Ozioma Okonkwo and ADNI Early Career Faculty Scholar, Dr. Miriam Ashford at the 2026 Spring ADRC Meeting in Atlanta, GA.
HABS-HD Graduate Student Scholar, Ms. Gabriella Mamlouk presents her poster "Racial identity moderates the association between depression and AD-relevant plasma biomarkers in a multi-ethnic cohort" at UW-Madison's DOM Research Day 2026.
HABS-HD Graduate Student Scholar, Ms. Gabriella Mamlouk delivers a lightening presentation on "Racial identity moderates the association between depression and AD-relevant plasma biomarkers in a multi-ethnic cohort" at UW-Madison's ADRD Research Day 2026.
HABS-HD Alumna, Dr. Annie Lee delivers a talk on "Neurovascular Contributions to Alzheimer's Disease Revealed by Postmortem Multi-Omics" at AD/PD 2026 in Copenhagen, Denmark.
Dr. Ozioma Okonkwo and HABS-HD Alumna, Dr. Annie Lee at AD/PD 2026 in Copenhagen, Denmark.
HESP lunch during INS 2026 in Philadelphia, PA.
HABS-HD Graduate Student Scholar, Mr. Josh Garcia, delivers an oral presentation at INS 2026 titled, "Evaluation of Performance Validity Tests in a Community Sample: Rates of Invalid Performance and Normative Data for English and Spanish Speakers."
HESP Program Director, Dr. Monica Rivera Mindt was an invited plenary speaker at INS 2026. She gave a talk on "Redefining the Field: Community-Engaged Research as a Catalyst for Neuropsychological Innovation."
The HESP Program Directors, HABS-HD Scholars, and HESP Project Managers at the HABS-HD 3rd Annual Meeting in Fort Worth, TX in September 2025.
HESP Scholars at the HABS-HD 3rd Annual Meeting in Fort Worth, TX in September 2025.
Drs. Sid O’Bryant, Ozioma Okonkwo with the HABS-HD Scholars, and the HESP Project Managers at the Welcome Reception for the HABS-HD 3rd Annual Meeting in Fort Worth, TX in September 2025.
Drs. Sid O’Bryant, Robert Rissman, Arthur Toga, Christopher Ray, Mónica Rivera Mindt, HABS-HD Scholars, and the HESP Project Managers at the Welcome Reception for the HABS-HD 3rd Annual Meeting in Fort Worth, TX in September 2025.
HESP Program Directors with ADNI and HABS-HD Scholars at AAIC 2025
HESP Program Directors and ADNI Scholars at the 2025 ADNI4 Steering Committee Meeting in San Francisco, CA.
ADNI Early Career Faculty Scholar (Cohort 3), Dr. Charisse Winston delivers her Flash Talk, "Correlations Between Metabolic/Vascular Risk Factors and Plasma Biomarkers to Predict AD Brain Pathology Amongst African Americans" at the 2025 ADNI4 Steering Committee Meeting in San Francisco, CA.
ADNI Postdoctoral Fellow Scholar (Cohort 3), Dr. Joshua Gills delivers his Flash Talk, "Two Cohort Study: The Evaluation of Sleep Disturbances and Social Determinants of Health on Neuropathology in Black and Non-Latinx White Americans" at the 2025 ADNI4 Steering Committee Meeting in San Francisco, CA.
ADNI Graduate Student Scholar (Cohort 3), Dr. Valerie Dorsant-Ardon delivers her Flash Talk, "Understanding Ancestry-Specific Genetic Factors in Alzheimer's Disease: A Focus on the Effect of SNPs Lowering AD Risk in the ADNI and HABS-HD Cohorts" at the 2025 ADNI4 Steering Committee Meeting in San Francisco, CA.
ADNI Graduate Student Scholar (Cohort 2), Mr. Mohammad Housini delivers his Flash Talk, "Multi-Cohort Association of Alcohol Use Disorder with Cognitive Impairment & Alzheimer's Disease" at the 2025 ADNI4 Steering Committee Meeting in San Francisco, CA.
ADNI Graduate Student Scholar (Cohort 2), Ms. Soumilee Chaudhuri delivers her Flash Talk, "Cardiovascular Risk and Its Association with Plasma Biomarkers Along the Alzheimer's Disease Trajectory" at the 2025 ADNI4 Steering Committee Meeting in San Francisco, CA..
ADNI Scholars, Ms. Soumilee Chaudhuri and Dr. Charisse Winston at the CLEAR-AD Annual Meeting in April 2025.
ADNI Scholars, Dr. Charisse Winston and Ms. Soumilee Chaudhuri, presented at the 2025 CLEAR-AD Annual Meeting in Indianapolis, IN.
ADNI Principal Investigator and HESP Program Directors with ADNI and HABS-HD Scholars at lunch during AD/PD 2025 in Vienna, Austria.
ADNI Graduate Student Scholar, Soumilee Chaudhuri delivers an oral presentation at Ad/PD 2025 titled, "Cardiovascular Risk and Its Association with Plasma Biomarkers Along the Alzheimer's Disease Trajectory."
Dr. Ozioma Okonkwo and ADNI Alum, Dr. Jeremy Grant at the Ohio State University's Science Sundays series on March 2nd, 2025.
HESP lunch during INS 2025 in New Orleans, LA.
HESP Program Director, Dr. Ozioma Okonkwo, and HESP Scientist, Dr. Alyssa Arentoft, with HABS-HD Scholar, Ms. Abbey Houchin, ADNI Alum, Dr. Jeremy Grant, and HABS-HD Alumna, Dr. Alexandra Clark at INS 2025.
HABS-HD Graduate Student Scholar, Abbey Houchin presents her poster "Global and Regional Assessment of Perivascular Spaces as a Biomarker of Alzheimer's Disease in Cognitively Normal Older Adults" at INS 2025.
HESP Program Directors, Drs. Rivera Mindt and Ozioma Okonkwo, with ADNI Alum, Dr. Jeremy Grant at INS 2025 in New Orleans, LA.
ADNI Graduate Student Scholar, Mohammad Housini delivers an oral presentation titled, "Multi-Cohort Association of Alcohol Use Disorder with Cognitive Impairment & Alzheimer's Disease," at the Texas Alzheimer's Research Care Consortium in January 2025.
The annual HABS-HD Investigators' Meeting took place September 25th - 27th, 2024 in Fort Worth Texas.
HESP Project Managers, Mai Seng Thao (left) and Amber Niay (right) with HABS-HD Cohort III Early Career Faculty, Dr. Steffany Chamut (middle) at the annual HABS-HD Investigators' Meeting Welcome Reception in Fort Worth, Texas on September 25th, 2024.
HABS-HD Graduate Students, Gabriella Mamlouk (left) from Cohort I and Shirine Moukaled (right) from Cohort II catch up at the annual HABS-HD Investigators' Meeting Welcome Reception in Fort Worth, Texas on September 25th, 2024.
Dr. Alexandra Clark, HABS-HD Cohort I Early Career Faculty alum, presents on "Sociobiological Mechanisms of ADRD" at the annual HABS-HD Investigators' Meeting in September 2024.
HESP Program Director, Dr. Ozioma Okonkwo (far left) chats with HABS-HD Scholar, Dr. Joey Contreras (second from left), Cohort III Early Career Faculty, and HESP Project Managers, Mai Seng Thao (second from right), and Amber Niay (R) at the annual HABS-HD Investigators' Meeting Welcome Reception in Fort Worth, Texas on September 25th, 2024.
HABS-HD Cohort III Scholars, Joshua Garcia (left) and Dr. Cellas Hayes (right) at the annual HABS-HD Investigators' Meeting Welcome Reception in Fort Worth, Texas on September 25th, 2024.
The HABS-HD Scholars, HESP Directors, HABS-HD PI, and HESP Project Managers take a photo while mingling at the annual HABS-HD Investigators' Meeting Welcome Reception on September 25th, 2024 in Fort Worth, Texas.
Shirine Moukaled, HABS-HD Cohort II Graduate Student presents on her research at the annual HABS-HD Investigators' Meeting in September 2024.
Dr. Kharine Jean, HABS-HD Cohort II Postdoctoral Fellow presents on her research at the annual HABS-HD Investigators' Meeting in September 2024.
Dr. Annie Lee, HABS-HD Cohort II Early Career Faculty presents on her research at the annual HABS-HD Investigators' Meeting in September 2024.
Drs. Ozioma Okonwko and Monica Rivera Mindt, HESP Directors, present on the Development Core at the annual HABS-HD Investigators' Meeting in September 2024
Cohort II Graduate Students, Soumilee Chaudhuri (left) [ADNI] and Shirine Moukaled (right) [HABS-HD] at the 2024 CASE Workshop in Washington D.C.
HABS-HD and ADNI Scholars Dinner with HABS-HD PI, Dr. Sid O'Bryant in Philadelphia, PA during AAIC 2024.
Soumilee Chaudhuri, ADNI Cohort II Graduate Student, and Dr. Ozioma Okonkwo at AAIC 2024 in Philadelphia, PA.
Soumilee Chaudhuri, ADNI Cohort II Graduate Student, presents her poster at AAIC 2024.
Mohammad Housini, ADNI Cohort II Graduate Student, presents his poster at AAIC 2024.
ADNI Scholars, Dr. Zahra Shirzadi, Cohort I Postdoctoral Fellow and Soumilee Chaudhuri, Cohort II Graduate Student, at AAIC 2024.
ADNI HESP Scholars and some of the team at the ADNI 20th Anniversary Reception at AAIC 2024 in Philadelphia, PA.
HESP Program Directors and Scholars at AAIC 2024 in Philadelphia, PA.
ADNI HESP and Engagement Core team in Austin, TX for the 2024 ADNI Steering Committee Meeting.
Jeremy Grant, PhD, ADNI Cohort II Postdoctoral Fellow, gives Flash Talk on his HESP research project at the annual ADNI Steering Committee Meeting in Austin, Texas on May 9th, 2024.
Victor Ekuta, MD, ADNI Cohort II Postdoctoral Fellow, gives Flash Talk on his HESP research project at the annual ADNI Steering Committee Meeting in Austin, Texas on May 9th, 2024.
Mohammad Housini, MS, ADNI Cohort II Graduate Student, gives Flash Talk on his HESP research project at the annual ADNI Steering Committee Meeting in Austin, Texas on May 9th, 2024.
Soumilee Chaudhuri, BS, ADNI Cohort II Graduate Student, gives a virtual Flash Talk on her HESP research project at the annual ADNI Steering Committee Meeting in Austin, Texas on May 9th, 2024.
Patricia Andrews, MD, ADNI Cohort II Early Career Faculty, gives Flash Talk on her HESP research project at the annual ADNI Steering Committee Meeting in Austin, Texas on May 9th, 2024.
2024 Annual ADNI Steering Committee Meeting in Austin, TX.