THE CONTRIBUTORS

JEANNETTE MICHELE BEASLEY, PhD, MPH, RDN, is an Assistant Professor in the Departments of Nutrition and Food Studies and Medicine at NYU. She trained in biology at the College of William and Mary (BS), nutrition at University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill (MPH, RDN) and epidemiology at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health (PhD). Her research focuses on understanding the role of nutrition in chronic disease prevention, particularly in furthering the understanding of the role of nutrition in the prevention of cardiovascular disease in diverse populations and refining recommendations regarding the protein needs of older adults. This work has resulted in over 75 peer-reviewed publications and 8 books or book chapters. She has received funding from National Institutes of Health, Centers for Disease Control, and private foundations. She serves as an Associate Editor for BMC Public Health and as a peer reviewer for over 20 other academic journals. She previously held academic appointments at Group Health Research Institute, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, and Albert Einstein College of Medicine.

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ABRAHAM AIZER BRODY, PhD, RN, FAAN, is the Mathy Mezey Professor of Geriatric Nursing, Professor of Medicine, and Associate Director of the Hartford Institute for Geriatric Nursing at NYU. His work focuses on the intersection of geriatrics, palliative care, quality, and equity. The primary goal of his research, clinical, and policy pursuits is to improve the quality of care for older adults with serious illnesses wherever they reside through the development, testing, and dissemination of real-world, technology, and informatics-supported quality improvement interventions. He is the principal investigator of multiple large-scale pragmatic clinical trials to improve the quality of care and quality of life for persons living with dementia and their care partners living in the community, and leads the Pilot Core for the National Institute on Aging (NIA) IMPACT Collaboratory, which is a collaboration with NIA to move evidence-based practices for persons living with dementia from research to practice. He maintains an active practice on the geriatrics and palliative care consult services at NYU Langone Health.

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OMONIGHO MICHAEL BUBU, MD, PhD, MPH, is an Assistant Professor and physician scientist at NYU Grossman School of Medicine, in the Departments of Psychiatry and Population Health, with a programmatic research focus on sleep, aging, and Alzheimer's disease (AD). Dr. Bubu has graduate, internship, and fellowship-level clinical and research training in neurology, neuro-epidemiology, and public health. His research examines how age-related and age-dependent sleep changes, and vascular risk, impact cognitive decline and AD risk, and how they drive AD-related disparities.

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MIRNOVA E. CEÏDE, MD, MSc, is an Assistant Professor of Geriatric Psychiatry and Geriatrics at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine/Montefiore Medical Center, the Assistant Program Director of the Montefiore Geriatric Psychiatry Fellowship, and Associate Director of Psychiatry at the Montefiore Center for the Aging Brain. She completed her Geriatric Psychiatry Fellowship at SUNY Downstate and joined the Geriatric Psychiatry Division at Montefiore Medical Center in 2013. She has presented at national and international meetings on behavioral risk factors for dementia and models of psychiatric integration in health care. In 2018, she completed the Albert Einstein Clinical Research Training Program and attained a Master of Science in Clinical Research. She completed a Columbia Center for Interdisciplinary Research on Alzheimer's disease Disparities (CIRAD) Pilot Project Grant to further apathy and cognition in a racially and ethnically diverse clinic population. Most recently, she was awarded a National Institutes of Health Diversity Supplement to study apathy as an early risk factor for dementia in a multicountry cohort of older adults.

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RUIJIA CHEN, ScD, is a social epidemiologist and a postdoctoral scholar in the Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics at the University of California, San Francisco. She received her Doctor of Science degree in social epidemiology from Harvard University and master's degree in social policy from the University of Pennsylvania. Her research focuses on applying advanced epidemiologic methods to understand how psychosocial determinants across the life course influence social disparities in late-life cognitive outcomes.

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JOSHUA CHODOSH, MD, MSHS, is Director of the NYU Division of Geriatric Medicine and Palliative Care and the inaugural endowed Michael L. Freedman Professor of Geriatric Research at NYU Grossman School of Medicine. He is also Staff Physician at VA NY Harbor Healthcare System. As Professor of Medicine and Population Health, Dr. Chodosh joined NYU in 2015 after a productive research career at UCLA and the Greater Los Angeles VA. At NYU, he has built the Freedman Research Center on Aging, Technology and Cognitive Health supported by investigators that cross several departments including medicine, population health, surgery, and emergency medicine and multiple institutions across the United States. Dr. Chodosh is PI or MPI of multiple National Institutes of Health R01s and a VA multisite Merit. He is also PI of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention BOLD Public Health Center of Excellence on Early Detection of Dementia and leads the Outreach, Recruitment, and Engagement Core of the NYU Alzheimer's Disease Research Center. In 2017, Dr. Chodosh cofounded the NYU Aging Incubator, a University-wide, educational, and research collective serving the larger University community.

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OHSHUE GATANAGA, MPH(c), MSSW(c), is currently a graduate student studying social work and public health at Columbia University. His research focuses on infusing syndemics and intersectionality theories to examine how multiple marginalized identities impact behavioral health and substance use outcomes. In particular, Gatanaga is interested in exploring historically under-researched communities, such as Asian American subgroups and LGBTQ+ communities. Other current and related research projects include partnering on National Institutes of Health grants addressing intersectional stigma among men who have sex with men, the HIV/AIDS intervention BRIDGE (Improving HIV Service Delivery for People who Inject Drugs in Kazakhstan), and gender-based violence studies for Project E-Worth (Multimedia HIV/STI Intervention for Black Drug-Involved women on Probation in New York City). As an aspiring practitioner-scholar, Gatanaga hopes to conduct research at the forefront of clinical implementation. He is currently a member of the New York State Society for Clinical Social Work, the American Public Health Association LGBTQ Health Caucus, and the American Public Health Association Asian and Pacific Islander Caucus for Public Health.

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NISHA GODBOLE, BS, is a third-year medical student at Stony Brook University in New York. She became interested early during her medical education on Aging and Alzheimer's disease and related dementias. She pursued funded research through the NYU Grossman School of Medicine, Department of Medicine and Engagement and Longevity in Medicine (ELM) research collaborative.

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LU HU, PhD, is a behavioral scientist and an Assistant Professor in the Department of Population Health at NYU Langone Health. Her research primarily focuses on developing and testing innovative, sustainable, and scalable technology-based interventions to increase access to care and reduce health disparities in underserved populations with chronic conditions.

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TERRY T-K HUANG, PhD, MPH, MBA, is Professor and Chair of the Department of Health Policy and Management, Director of the Center for Systems and Community Design, and Co-Director of the NYU-CUNY Prevention Research Center (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention-designated) at the City University of New York Graduate School of Public Health and Health Policy (CUNY SPH). In addition to his academic research endeavors, Dr. Huang founded a public health entrepreneurship platform, Firefly Innovations (www.firefly-innovations.com), at the CUNY SPH and leads a new angel portfolio fund, COREangels Health Equity & Mental Wellbeing. He received the United States Department of Health and Human Services Secretary's Innovation Award in 2010 and the National Institutes of Health Director's Award in 2011. In addition, he received the National Cancer Institute Award of Merit in 2012. Dr. Huang holds a PhD in Preventive Medicine and an MPH from the University of Southern California, an MBA from IE Business School (Madrid, Spain), and a BA in Psychology from McGill University (Montreal, Canada).

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JAY M. IYER, AB(c), is a sophomore at Harvard College concentrating in Molecular and Cellular Biology and Statistics. He is a researcher in the Department of Stem Cell and Regenerative Biology at Harvard University, investigating the potentially selective distribution of specific ribosomal proteins in neuronal subtypes and their respective subcellular compartments. Furthermore, he is a researcher in the Department of Neurology at Massachusetts General Hospital, where he analyzes data from clinical cohorts to discover predictors of Parkinson's Disease and Progressive Supranuclear Palsy (PSP) progression. Iyer also leads his nonprofit organization, MIND Relief, which provides support to...