Dr. Lisa Barnes
Wednesday, March 13, 2024
Lisa L. Barnes, PhD is the Alla V. and Solomon Jesmer Professor of Gerontology and Geriatric Medicine and a cognitive neuropsychologist within the Rush Alzheimer’s Disease Center at Rush University Medical Center. She is also the Associate Director of the Rush Alzheimer’s Disease Research Center. She received her PhD from the University of Michigan in biopsychology and completed a post-doctoral fellowship in cognitive neuroscience at the University of California, Davis. She has been a faculty member at Rush Medical College since 1999. Dr. Barnes has received many NIH grants and has published over 300 manuscripts. Her research interests include disparities in chronic diseases of aging, cognitive decline, and risk factors for Alzheimer’s disease. She is the Principal Investigator of the Minority Aging Research Study (MARS), which has been funded by NIA since 2004, and the Clinical Core Leader for the Rush African American Clinical Core. She advocates for recruitment of under-represented groups into clinical studies and has received many awards and fellowships.
10:00 AM - 11:30 AM CT
Main Lecture: Risk and Protective - Factors of Cognitive Aging in Older African Americans
3:00 PM - 4:00 PM CT
Special Session: Community - Engaged
Research with Older Adults - Lessons Learned
Dr. Sa-kiera "Kiera" Hudson
Tuesday, April 16, 2024 (Virtual)
Sa-kiera “Kiera” Hudson is an Assistant Professor at University of California Berkeley Haas School of Business in the Management of Organizations (MORS) group. She completed her PhD in 2020 in the (social) psychology department at Harvard University under the guidance of Dr. Jim Sidanius, Dr. Mahzarin Banaji, and Dr. Mina Cikara. Before starting her faculty position, she held an NSF postdoctoral fellowship at Yale University working with Dr. Jennifer Richeson and Dr. Michael Kraus. Kiera studies hierarchies: How hierarchies are formed, how they are maintained, and how they intersect. Her second line of work examines stereotyping as a mechanism of hierarchy maintenance. Finally, in her third line of work, she examines the hierarchy-reinforcing myth that social
progress is a natural and inevitable consequence of the passage of time, which can lead individuals to believe there has been significantly more progress in achieving racial equality than what is supported by evidence. Kiera also focuses on making psychological and behavioral science more equitable, dedicating time and effort to mentorship and service.
11:00 AM - 12:30 PM CT
Main Lecture: The Divergence Between Descriptive and Normative
Expectations for Gay Men and Lesbian Women
