Research Grand Rounds Presents:  Recruitment and Retention of Individuals from Underrepresented Groups for Biomedical Research

Sponsor: MHRI and GHUCCTS
Time: 12 - 1:30 PM (lunch provided at 1 PM)
Location: MedStar Washington Hospital Center, CTEC Auditorium, 6th Floor MedStar Washington Hospital Center, 110 Irving Street NW, Washington DC 20010
Speaker(s):  Dorothy Farrar Edwards, PhD

Dr. Edwards is a Professor of Kinesiology (Occupational Therapy, School of Education), and of Medicine and Neurology (School of Medicine and Public Health) at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where she also directs the Collaborative Center for Health Equity in the Institute for Clinical and Translational Research. 

Her research exemplifies our discipline-spanning interest in novel approaches to complex and interacting disorders with disparate impacts on patients, their families, communities, and on understudied populations, along with approaches that could accelerate research across disciplines and translational stages.  Her work spans the domains of aging, cognitive and physical impairment, functional independence and quality of life.  She has focused particularly on Alzheimer’s Disease, Stroke, aiming to improve both assessments and interventions, particularly in African American patients and communities.  Importantly, her work provides key, actionable lessons for clinical investigators across all disciplines to improve research participation, recruitment, and retention through community engagement.

Please join us for her research presentation, entitled “Recruitment and Retention of Individuals from Underrepresented Groups for Biomedical Research”

Please join us for lunch at MHRI, or if unable to participate in-person, please log into https://georgetown.zoom.us/s/482085870