The Texas Resource Center on Minority Aging Research

RCMAR Scholar and Associate Professor Monique Pappadis, MEd, PhD has been selected by the School of Health Professions Dean's Office to attend the 2020 Teaching Professor Annual Conference.  

Announcing the first public release of data from the Healthy Cognitive Aging Project (HCAP), a nationally representative study that will help shed light on how and when cognitive decline progresses in older adults. Longitudinal studies like the MHAS Cognitive Aging Ancillary Study (Mex-Cog), part of the HCAP, are important in providing prospective data on complex diseases.

RCMAR Scholar Monique Pappadis, MEd, PhD presented a keynote address, "Educating Families and Patients with Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI): Are We Doing Enough?" at the Annual Council on Brain Injury Conference.

The Mexican Health and Aging Study (MHAS) hosted data management experts from the National Institute of Statistics (INEGI) and National Institute of Geriatrics (INGER) in Mexico. The group interviewed international users of the data – both basic and sophisticated users – to understand better how to meet the needs of the MHAS data users. As the MHAS data becomes more complex, including biomarkers, anthropometric measures, and samples for genetic analyses, new tools will be developed to mine the data.