Name: Poster Blitz
Start: 2024-06-04T10:00:00+1000
End: 2024-06-04T11:00:00+1000

Poster Blitz

1. 'Genetic correlation and causality assessment between Alzheimer’s disease and asthma'
Presented by: Olasunkanmi Bamidele

2. 'The Right to Rehabilitation for People with Dementia - Developing Solutions through Co-design'
Presented by: Michele Callisaya

3. 'Innovative Small Molecule Approaches to Boosting Proteostasis in Alzheimer's Disease'
Presented by: Prashant Bharadwaj

4. 'ISLAND Campus: Opt-in intervention of fee-free university education reduces modifiable risk factors for dementia and improves cognition throughout Tasmania'
Presented by: Dr Hannah Fair

5. “It’s Really Important That We Do Have a Voice.” Residents’ Perspectives on the Factors that Promote and Support Mental Health within Aged Care Homes
Presented by: Deborah Brooks

6. 'Olfactory Stem Cells as a New Model for Investigating Potential Biomarkers for Alzheimer’s Disease'
Presented by: Laura Rantanen

7. 'Barriers and Facilitators of Social Participation in Older Adults with Mild Cognitive Impairment (MCI)/Early Dementia and their Carers/Supporters'
Presented by: Diana Matovic

8. 'Do people from Culturally and Linguistically Diverse (CALD) background take longer times to receive a dementia or mild cognitive impairment diagnosis: Findings from the Australian Dementia Network (ADNeT) Registry'
Presented by: Xiaoping Lin

9. 'Lumipulse plasma pTau217 accurately detects and stages Alzheimer’s disease and rises with early tau aggregation'
Presented by: Azadeh Feizpour

10. 'Hearing loss, social isolation and depression in participants aged 50 years or over in Tasmania, Australia'
Presented by: Mohammad Shoaib Hamrah

Chair

Dr Suraj Samtani

Dr Suraj Samtani is a healthy ageing researcher at the Centre for Healthy Brain Ageing (CHeBA) at UNSW Sydney. Suraj is also a Clinical Psychologist with several years of experience in the assessment and treatment of psychological difficulties experienced by older adults. His current... Read More →

Dr Edwin Tan

Dr Edwin Tan is a Senior Lecturer, School of Pharmacy, Faculty of Medicine and Health, The University of Sydney. He is also a registered pharmacist with clinical experience in both Australia and the UK. He was a previous NHMRC-ARC Dementia Research Development Fellow at the Karolinska... Read More →

Speakers

Olasunkanmi Bamidele

Olasunkanmi Bamidele is a PhD student at the Centre for Precision Health, Edith Cowan University. He is a beneficiary of the ECU Higher Degree by Research Scholarship, with his Ph.D. research focusing on using statistical genetics to understand the biological mechanisms that underpin... Read More →

Michele Callisaya

Michele is an academic physiotherapist who has worked for over 20 years in neurological rehabilitation and aged care. Her research aims to improve the health, function and wellbeing of people with dementia and other neurological conditions. She has been awarded over $28 million in... Read More →

Prashant Bharadwaj

Dr. Bharadwaj is an early-mid career researcher with more than 10 years of experience in neurodegenerative diseases. He currently leads the Childhood Dementia research in WA. Dr. Bharadwaj is an expert in autophagy-lysosomal pathway, an important cellular mechanism implicated in multiple... Read More →

Dr Hannah Fair

Dr. Hannah Fair is a passionate lecturer and researcher who focuses on understanding and improving equity in health promotion, particularly in dementia prevention. She evaluates online health education programs like the ISLAND project Linking Aging and Neurovegetative Disease, the... Read More →

Deborah Brooks

Dr Deborah Brooks is a Research Fellow at the Dementia and Neuro Mental Health Research Unit, The University of Queensland Centre for Clinical Research, and Visiting Fellow at Queensland University of Technology. She has a background in psychology and health services research. Her... Read More →

Laura Rantanen

Dr Laura Rantanen is a post-doctoral researcher in Associate Professor Anthony White’s Cellular and Molecular Neurodegeneration group at QIMR Berghofer. She obtained her BSc and MSc degrees in Cell and Molecular Biology from the University of Jyvaskyla, Finland. After working several... Read More →

Diana Matovic

Dr Diana Matovic is a postdoctoral researcher and a member of the Macquarie University Lifespan Health and Wellbeing Research Centre. Dr Matovic manages the Wellbeing Check Tool designed to screen for risk factors for dementia and poor wellbeing (e.g., depression, social isolation... Read More →

Xiaoping Lin

Dr Xiaoping Lin is a researcher passionate about providing optimal care to older Australians and their families through high-quality research. She has more than ten years’ research experience, with expertise in quantitative and qualitative research methods and consumer involvement... Read More →

Azadeh Feizpour

Dr Azadeh Feizpour is a Senior Research Fellow at the Department of Molecular Imaging and Therapy, Austin Health. She earned her PhD in Neuroscience from Monash University in 2018. Currently, her primary focus is on validating newly developed blood biomarkers for Alzheimer’s disease... Read More →

Mohammad Shoaib Hamrah

Dr Mohammad Shoaib Hamrah is a research fellow with the Wicking Dementia Research and Education Centre since 2020. He served as a post-doctoral researcher at Nagoya University Graduate School of Medicine in the Department of Cardiology in Nagoya, Japan (2017-2018). He is a clinical... Read More →

Tuesday June 4, 2024 10:00am - 11:00am AEST
3. Binna Burra Room

Poster Blitz

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