PGCSIAMSPE
Postgraduate Studies in Health Sciences at IAMSPE
International Collaborators
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PROFESSOR DR. ANA WERNECK CAPUANO
(MPS MS PhD)
Associate Professor, Department of Neurological Sciences, Rush University Medical Center, Chicago-IL, USA.
Co-director and course moderator, Neuroepidemiology Journal Club, RADC, for faculty and postdocs.
She is also vice-president-elect of the Professional Interest Areas (PIA) Design and Data Analytics, Program Chair, 2020-2022 of ISTAART (The Alzheimer's Association International Society to Advance Alzheimer's Research and Treatment). He is a member of the American Statistical Association. She is a reviewer for the following journals: Alzheimer's Research & Therapy, Statistics in Medicine, Statistical Methods in Medical Research, Statistics in Pharmaceutical Research, Journal of Alzheimer's Disease, Nature - European Journal of Clinical Nutrition.
PROF. DR. DAVI BENNET
(BS, MD)
Director of the Rush Alzheimer's Disease Center.
He is the principal investigator of the Rush Alzheimer's Disease Core Center, the Religious Order Study, and the Rush Memory and Aging Project, two community-based cohort studies of aging and dementia in which all participants are organ donors.
He is also PI of the study African Ancestry and Genomic Architecture of AD and other Neuropathologies of Common Neurodegenerative Diseases to be conducted at IAMSPE.
Dr. Bennett is PI or co-PI of several other molecular genomic grants that feed a pipeline to develop novel therapeutics.