RESEARCH METHODS AND SECONDARY DATA ANALYSIS SEMINAR SERIES
Charting the Course and the UAB Study of Aging:
Research Opportunities from Available Data
Secondary Data Analysis Seminar
Thursday, November 7, 2013
11:45 am - 1:15 pm
UAB - Medical Towers 634
and by Video Conference connection at your office
Speakers:
Richard M. Allman, MD
Parrish Endowed Professor of Medicine and Director
Birmingham/Atlanta VA Geriatric Research, Education, and Clinical Center (GRECC)
Comprehensive Center for Healthy Aging
Deep South Resource Center for Minority Aging Research(RCMAR)
University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB)
Patricia Sawyer, PhD
Assistant Director
UAB Comprehensive Center for Healthy Aging
Director, Gerontology Education Program
Richard M. Allman, MD is the Parrish Endowed Professor of Medicine and the Director of the Birmingham/Atlanta VA Geriatric Research, Education, and Clinical Center (GRECC), the Comprehensive Center for Healthy Aging at the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB). Dr. Allman has had continuous funding to conduct research related to geriatrics and aging since 1988, when he received his first grant from the National Institute on Aging (NIA). He is the principal investigator for the NIA-funded UAB Study of Aging, a study focusing on risk factors for mobility loss among 1000 community-dwelling older adults.
Patricia Sawyer, PhD, is a medical sociologist with research interests focused on the study of mobility and the ability to remain independent with age, with a particular focus on disparities among older community-dwelling African American and Whites. She is an Associate Professor in the Division of Gerontology, Geriatrics, and Palliative Care at the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) and is manager and co-PI of the UAB Study of Aging, (Mobility Among Older African Americans and Whites). She was PI of Charting the Course, a study of adults aged 55 and older in Alabama. Dr. Sawyer also serves as Director of the Gerontology Education Program, Assistant Director of the Comprehensive Center for Healthy Aging, Coordinator of the Student Research Mentoring Program and Associate Director for Evaluation for the UAB Geriatric Education Center. She serves as a Research Advisor for the Deep South Resource Center for Minority Aging Research (RCMAR).
This event is sponsored by the:
UAB Minority Health & Health Disparities Research Center (MHRC)
Deep South Resource Center for Minority Aging Research (RCMAR)
UAB Center for Outcomes and Effectiveness Research and Education (COERE)
- You may download RealPresence video conference software to your computer to connect. http://iits.uasystem.ua.edu/CMA.html
- You may call into the VC using phone number: 205-930-6571 Plus Conference ID (00605) (if you are off-site, or there are internet connection problems with our video conferences)
