Clinician-judged hearing impairment and associations with neuropathologic burden
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- Received August 9, 2019
- Accepted in final form March 30, 2020
- First Published August 5, 2020.
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Author Disclosures
- Willa D. Brenowitz, PhD, MPH,
- Lilah M. Besser, PhD, MSPH,
- Walter A. Kukull, PhD,
- C. Dirk Keene, MD, PhD,
- M. Maria Glymour, ScD and
- Kristine Yaffe, MD
- Willa D. Brenowitz, PhD, MPH,
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NIH/NIA T32AG049663, trainee, 2017-2019 NIH/NIA K01AG062722, PI, 2019-current UCSF Claude D. Pepper Older Americans Independence Center funded by National Institute on Aging, P30 AG044281, REC scholar, 2019
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Alzheimer's Association, AARF-18-565846
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- Lilah M. Besser, PhD, MSPH,
(1) National Institute on Aging Scientific Review Committee
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(1) International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, section editor, 2019-present
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- Walter A. Kukull, PhD,
Special Emphasis Panels for grant review of NIH and CDC applications; External Advisory Committees for Alzheimer's disease centers: UCI, USC, U Kansas, Mt Sinai(NY), Boston U and Biocard study at JHU
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Univ of Florida, Gainesville. travel and lodging to give a talk on Alzheimer's disease. Feb, 2012. Travel for talk at Changchun University, China,2015 Travel for talk at Dongzhimen Hospital, Beijing, China 2016 honorarium: PKU Peoples hospital,Beijing, China 2018, 2019
Editorial board member 2002-present: Alzheimer's Disease and Associated Disorders (no pay) Senior Associate Editor, Alzheimer's and Dementia, 2015 - present. (no pay)
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1) External Advisory committee: UC Irvine ADRC 2)External Advisory committee: Mt Sinai ADRC 3) External Advisory committee:University of Kansas ADRC 4) Scientific Advisory Committee: Biocard Study, JHU 5) External advisory committee Boston U. ADRC 6)External Advisory Committee, USC ADRC
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National Institute on Aging, U01 AG016976,1999-present, PI as obtained through the University of Washington Co-investigator, Alzheimer's Disease Genetics Consortium (NIA grant; G. Schellenberg, U Penn, PI) co-investigator B-val study (NIH/NIA Michael Weiner, UCSF, PI; Co-Investigator ADOPIC study (NIH/NIA C. Masters, U Melbourne, PI
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Alzheimer's Association, Lumbar puncture survey study LPSS 11-219245 Principal Investigator
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- C. Dirk Keene, MD, PhD,
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American Journal of Pathology, Editorial Board, 2013- present
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UpToDate, 2016-present
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NIH U01 AG006781 co-I 2015-20 NIH P50 AG05136 co-I 2015-20 NIH P30 AG049638 co-I 2016-21 NIH U01 NS086625 co-I 2014-17 NIH R01 ES026187-01A1 co-I, 2016-21
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Paul Allen Family Foundation
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- M. Maria Glymour, ScD and
Organizing committee for the MEthods in Longitudinal Research on DEMentia (MELODEM) initiative (no compensation; paid travel expenses and lodging at the meeting)
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J Causal Inference, Associate editor, 2016- PLOS one, Academic editor, 2012- American Journal of Epidemiology, Associate Editor 2015-2019 (no compensation for any) Am J Epi, Associate Editor 2019-
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Social Epidemiology, 2nd edition, Oxford University Press 2014
I have been a full time employee of the University of California, San Francisco, as an associate professor or professor, for over 6 years.
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Past: NIH/NIA, Co-I, 9/31/2011-8/31/2016; (6) NIH/NICHD, Co- I; 7/1/10 - 6/31/12; (7) Office for Minority Health and Health Disparities, NIH; Role: Co-I; (8) NIH/NIA, Co-I, 9/1/2011-8/31/2016; NIH/NIA, Co-I, 10/1/2010-9/31/2012; Current: No number available 04/01/18-03/31/20 Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Evidence for Action National Program Office Associate Director 1R01AG051170 09/15/15-05/31/20 NIH/NIA Co-I 1RF1AG052132 06/01/16-05/31/21 NIH/NIA mPI RF1AG056164 09/01/16-06/30/21 NIH/NIA Co-I 1RF1AG050782-01A1 01/01/17-12/31/21 NIH/NIA Co-I RF1AG055486 06/15/17-05/31/21 NIH/NIA mPI R01EY027004 07/01/2017-05/31/2021 NIH/NEI co-I RF1AG056519 (Whitmer) 07/01/2017-06/30/2022 NIH/NIA Co-I P01AG041710 (Berkman) 09/30/2017-05/31/2022 NIH/NIA Co-I 1R01AG054066-01A1 (Berkman) 9/1/2018- 8/31/2023 NIH/NIA Co-I R01AG057869 (Glymour/Power) 09/01/2018-04/30/2023 NIH/NIA mPI R01AG059872 (Glymour) 08/15/2018-04/30/2022 NIH/NIA PI R56AG062165 (Portacolone) 09/01/2018 Â 08/31/2019 NIH/NIA Co-I R01DK116738 (Jorgenson/Ahituv) 09/15/2018-08/31/2021 NIH/NEI Co-I 1R01HD090014 (Osypuk) 09/19/2017-05/31/2021 NIH/NICHD Co-I 7R01AG056360-02 (Yen) 07/01/2017-06/30/2021 NIH/NIA Co-I 1R01AG063385-01A1 (Hamad) 04/01/2019 Â 03/31/2024 NIH/NIA Co-I P30 AG062422 (Miller) 04/01/2019 Â 03/31/2024 NIH/NIA Co-I Additional NIH/NIA
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(1) American Heart Association Scientist Development Grant #10SDG2640243, PI, 1/1/10 Â 12/31/14 (2) Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, Evidence for Action Grants Program, associate director, 2015-(this supports part of my salary)
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- Kristine Yaffe, MD
1)DSMB for Eli Lilly 2)DSMB for NIH sponsored trial 3)Beeson Scientific Advisory Board 4)Global Council on Brain Health 5)Board member of Alector
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-Associate Editor, 2011-, International Review of Psychiatry -Editorial Board Member 2014-, Journal of Prevention of AlzheimerÂs Disease - Editorial Board Member 2017-, AlzheimerÂs & Dementia: Translational Research & Clinical Interventions - Editorial Board Member 2018-, Translational Neurodegeneration
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1. NIA K24 AG031155 06/13-11/20 PI:Yaffe Predictors of cognitive aging across the lifecourse 2. Sierra-Pacific VISN 10/09-09/23 Director Mental Illness Research, Educational and Clinical Center Psychiatric Fellowship 3. Sierra-Pacific VISN 10/09-09/23 PI of Dementia Research at SFVA Mental Illness Research, Educational and Clinical Center 4. Department of Defense W81XWH-16-1-0507 08/16-08/20 PI:Yaffe Risk and Resiliency for Dementia: Comparison of Male and Female Veterans 5. NIA RF1 AG054443 05/17-04/21 Multiple PI: Yaffe/ Zeki-Al Hazzouri Healthy Heart, Healthy Brain? A Pooled Life-course Cohort for Dementia Risk Assessment 6. NIA R01 AG057508 09/17-11/21 Multiple PI: Yaffe/Larson Systematic Multidomain Alzheimers Risk Reduction Trial (SMARRT) 7. NIA R01 AG054073 09/17-05/22 Multiple PI: Yaffe/OÂBryant/Toga Health Disparities in AlzheimerÂs Disease and Mild Cognitive Impairment among Mexican Americans 8. NIA R01 AG058537 06/18-05/21 Multiple PI: Yaffe/OÂBryant An AlzheimerÂs Blood Test for Primary Care 9. Department of Army W81XWH-18-1-0692 09/18-09/21 Multiple PI: Yaffe/Plassman Genetics, comorbidities, and ethnicity: Effects of TBI on Dementia 10. NIA R01 AG063887 09/19-05/23 Multiple PI: Yaffe/Sidney Lifecourse CVD Risk and Midlife Cognitive Trajectories and Brain Aging: Implications for AlzheimerÂs and Dementia Prevention 11. NIA R01 AG066137 09/19-06/24 Multiple PI: Yaffe/OÂBryant Sleep Quality and Mechanistic Links to Alzheimer Disease and Related Disorders among older Mexican Americans and Non-Hispanic Whites (HABLE-Dormir) 12. Department of Defense W81XWH-19-1-0669 10/19-09/23 Multiple PI: Yaffe/Gardner/Tosun Neuroimaging Endophenotypes & Predictors Post-TBI Dementia in A Nationwide Cohort of Veterans 13. Department of Defense/VA W81XWH-18-PH/TBIRP-LIMBIC I01CX002096 10/19-09/24 PI: Yaffe Long-Term Impact of Military-Relevant Brain Injury Consortium (LIMBIC): Epidemiological Study
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1)Doris Duke Charitable Foundation Doris Duke Fund to Retain Clinical Scientists 2) AlzheimerÂs Drug Discovery Foundation Connection Between Depressive Symptoms and Dementia:When Best to Intervene?
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- From the Departments of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences (W.D.B., K.Y.) and Neurology (K.Y.), Weill Institute for Neurosciences, and Department of Epidemiology & Biostatistics (M.M.G., K.Y.), University of California, San Francisco; Florida Atlantic University (L.M.B.), Institute for Human Health and Disease Intervention, School of Urban and Regional Planning, Boca Raton; National Alzheimer's Coordinating Center (W.A.K.), Department of Epidemiology, and Department of Pathology (C.D.K.), University of Washington, Seattle; and San Francisco VA Health Care System (K.Y.), CA.
- Correspondence
Dr. Brenowitz willa.brenowitz{at}ucsf.edu
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