Pepper/HCOR Lecture April 22 Features Dr. Allen, Feinberg School of Medicine

Join us for the next Pepper Investigators Lecture, co-sponsored by the Center for Health and Clinical Outcomes Research (H-COR) 

Dementia Risk Across the Life Course: Novel Insights and Innovative Data Science Approaches

Date: Wednesday, April 22, 2026

Time: 12:00-1:00pm

Location: Rebecca Sealy 6.100 & via TEAMS

(lunch provided for those in person, first come, first served)

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Meeting ID: 224 954 890 637

Passcode: UM2FC2Xe

Presented by Norrina Allen, PhD, MPH, FAHA

Norrina Allen, PhD is the Quentin D. Young Professor of Health Policy in the Department of Preventive Medicine and Professor of Epidemiology, Medical Social Sciences and Pediatrics at Feinberg School of Medicine. Dr. Allen is the Director of the IPHAM Center for Health Services and Outcomes Research and Co-Director of the Data Science Hub of the Institute for Innovations in Developmental Sciences (DevSci). She is a leader in many of the vascular and aging prospective cohorts including MESA and CARDIA as well as large, pooled consortia such as the Dementia Risk Prediction Pooling Project. Her research has taken a life course approach to understanding the development of aging related diseases, particularly in examining blood pressure, a major risk factor for cardiovascular and dementia.