SEGA members present at the SER 2024 Conference
June 18-21st is the Society for Epidemiologic Research conference in Austin, Texas. SEGA research group members will be presenting the following research studies:
Poster Presentations
(June 20) 6:30pm-7:30pm: Kelvin Z. A graphical user interface tool to facilitate assessment of bias from differential pre-baseline selection
Safe travels, and congratulations on presenting your outstanding work!
Xuexin successfully defends her dissertation!
On May 15th, 2024, Xuexin successfully defended her dissertation, completing her PhD in Epidemiologic Science from the University of Michigan. To relax after a job well done, Xuexin will be spending time with her family until she joins Columbia University as a Postdoctoral Research Scientist starting in August. Congratulations, Xuexin! We wish you all the best.
TC and Xuexin receive the Harburg Student Award for Excellence in Social Epidemiology from the University of Michigan!
At the end of the 2023/2024 academic year, TC and Xuexin received the Harburg Student Award for Excellence in Social Epidemiology from the Center for Social Epidemiology and Population Health at the University of Michigan for their outstanding work throughout the year. Congratulations, TC and Xuexin!
SEGA members present at the GSA 2023 Conference
November 8-12th is the Gerontological Society of America’s (GSA) 2023 Annual Scientific Meeting in Tampa, FL. SEGA research group members will be presenting the following research studies:
Oral Presentations
(Nov. 8) 10:30am-12pm: Ashly C. Westrick. Receipt of Chemotherapy & Cognitive Decline Among Medicare Beneficiaries in the US Health and Retirement Study
(Nov. 9) 4:30pm-6pm: Xuexin Yu. Cumulative loneliness and all-cause mortality among middle-aged and older adults in the United States, 1996-2018
Congratulations on presenting your amazing work!
Xuexin receives the 2023 AGHE Award from the GSA!
Xuexin Yu recently received the Academy for Gerontology in Higher Education Graduate Student Paper Award from the Gerontological Society of America. Congratulations, Xuexin!
Presentations at the SER 2023 meeting
June 13th-16th was the Society for Epidemiologic Research (SER) Conference in Portland, Oregon. SEGA Research Group members presented their work on the following topics:
Poster Presentations
Xuexin Yu. Could differential under-reporting of loneliness between men and women bias the gender-specific association between loneliness and memory aging? A quantitative probabilistic bias analysis.
Tsai-Chin Cho. Association of Spousal and Child Availability with Mid- to Late-life Memory Function and Decline among Older Adults in England and the United States, 2004-2018.
Ashly C. Westrick. Longitudinal effects of positive and negative social support on memory aging of middle aged and older cancer survivors: a marginal structural modeling approach.
Nasya Tan. Self-rated hearing and cardiovascular risks among older adults.
Chen Chen. Mexican Americans are more likely to participate in stroke research than non-Hispanic white.
Chihua Li. Peripheral immune function and Alzheimer’s Disease: A living systematic review and critical appraisal.
Chihua Li. Identifying patterns of reported findings on long-term cardiac symptoms of COVID-19: a living systematic review and meta-analysis.
Congratulations on presenting such amazing work, best of luck to you all!
Congrats, Brendan!
Previously a Research Associate for the SEGA Research Group, Brendan accepted a position in January of 2023 with the Los Angeles County Department of Public Health in Los Angeles, California. Here, he works as an Epidemiological Research Analyst on the Genomic Epidemiology team.
Congratulations, Brendan!
Xuexin receives a Predoctoral Fellowship award!
Many congratulations to Xuexin Yu! She has received a Rackham Predoctoral Fellowship Award from the University of Michigan to support her PhD research for the 2023/2024 academic year.
Ashly receives an NIA-funded K99/R00 award!
Congratulations to Ashly! She received a prestigious K99/R00 award from the National Institute on Aging (K99AG076532). She will be researching risk and resilience factors in memory aging of older cancer survivors in a cross-national comparison of data from the US and England. Her primary mentors are Drs. Lindsay Kobayashi and Ken Langa.
Presentations at the GSA 2022 meeting
November 2nd-6th was the Gerontological Society of America (GSA) 2022 Annual Scientific Meeting in Indianapolis, IN. SEGA Research Group members presented their work on a wide variety of topics:
Oral Presentations
(Nov. 2) 12:30-2pm: Ashly C. Westrick. Does Neighborhood Disadvantage Alter Memory after a cancer diagnosis?
(Nov. 3) 12-1:30pm: Tsai-Chin Cho. Short-Term Wealth Changes and Subsequent Cognitive Health Among Older Adults in China, England, Mexico, and the US
(Nov. 3) 12-1:30pm: Ashly C. Westrick. Cross-national variability in sex/gender differences and later-life memory: India and the United States
Congratulations for presenting your amazing work!
Xuexin Presents at the 2022 PAA
First-year doctoral student Xuexin Yu presented her research work at the Population Association of America (PAA) 2022 Annual Meeting, Cognitive Health and Aging section.
Title: Exposure to perceived job insecurity and subsequent memory function and decline among adults aged 55 and over in England and the United States: a pooled analysis of two population-based cohorts, 2006-2016
Time: April 8 (Fri) at 3:45pm
Congratulations on presenting your fabulous work!
Carly wins an award!
Sincere congratulations to Carly Joseph! She was presented with the United States Public Health Service Excellence in Public Health Award to recognize her passion and dedication to public health within the medical profession.
New PhD students join the team!
In September 2021, Tsai-Chin (TC) Cho and Xuexin Yu joined the team as new PhD students in Epidemiologic Sciences at University of Michigan School of Public Health.
TC’s research interests revolve around social and contextual components of cross-national health disparities and healthcare utilization. Xuexin is interested in the effects of socioeconomic trajectories on cognitive aging among older adults in South Africa, China, and the United States.
They are beginning their PhD studies under the mentorship of Dr. Lindsay Kobayashi.
Ashly’s LRP got funded!
Postdoctoral Research Fellow Ashly Westrick received three-year funding through the NIA/NIH Loan Repayment Program for her project: “Racial Disparities in Memory Aging Among Older Cancer Survivors: A Socioecological Approach”
Dr. Westrick’s project primarily aims to characterize long-term memory aging trajectories and racial disparities in memory aging among older cancer survivors, and to identify modifiable individual and socioecological determinants of long-term memory aging that could be future screening or early detection intervention targets to reduce disparities among older cancer survivors.
This project will help identify and evaluate disparities in long-term memory aging among older White and Black adults, by linking 20 years of US nationally representative data- Health and Retirement Study (HRS)- to the National Neighborhood Data Archive (NaNDA), a national data archive containing over three decades of contextual measures.
Congratulations, Dr. Westrick!
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