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Chicago Workshop on Biomarker Collection
in Population-Based Health Research

At the Gleacher Center, Sponsored by the University of Chicago
and Northwestern University

June 9 & 10, 2005

Agenda

Thursday, June 9th: Integrating Biological and Social Science Data in Analysis

8:00 - 8:15 am Breakfast reception
8:15 - 8:45 am Linda Waite and Diane Lauderdale:
Introduction and welcome to the workshop

Stacy Lindau and Jenna Mahay:
Introduction of the Core and Presentation of the Chicago Biomarkers Website; joint centers proposal

Thomas McDade, Ph.D., Director, Laboratory for Human Biology Research:
Description of the Center at Northwestern University
8:45 - 9:00 am Introduction of participants


9:00 - 10:00 am Keynote Address: "How do we integrate biological and social data in analysis?"

John Cacioppo, Tiffany & Margaret Blake Distinguished Service Professor - Department of Psychology, University of Chicago:
Principles for how we think about biological and social data, What kinds of research questions are amenable to integrated analyses?

Discussion
10:15 - 10:30 am Break


10:30 - 12:00 pm Biomarker data in population-based research: Conceptual  models, analytic strategies, and hypotheses tested: Part I

Maxine Weinstein, Distinguished Professor - Georgetown University

Narayan Sastry, RAND -- L.A. FANS
12:00 - 1:15 pm Luncheon Speaker: Dr. Joseph Kerwin, first physician astronaut at NASA


1:15 - 2:00 pm Biomarker data in population-based research: Conceptual models, analytic strategies, and hypotheses tested: Part II

Arun Karlamangla, MD - CARDIA & MacArthur population-based studies, UCLA Medical Center
2:00 - 2:45 pm "Biomarkers gone bad": The case of cortisol

Emma Adam, Ph.D., Northwestern University
2:45 - 3:00 pm Break


3:00 - 4:00 pm A new perspective in linking the Micro and Macro: Prenatal environments and health at older ages

Chris Kuzawa, Ph.D., Northwestern University


4:00 - 4:30 pm
Douglas Richardson, University of Chicago: Demonstration of new CCBAR scientific and educational website
6:30 pm Dinner


Friday, June 10th: New Developments in Biomarker Collection and Lessons Learned

8:00 - 8:30 am Breakfast


8:30 -  10:00 am
New candidates for biomarkers of cognition in population-based research

Jack McArdle, PhD - Department of Psychology, University of Virginia Charlottesville

Thomas Hummel, MD, PhD, University of Dresden Medical School

Christopher Clark, Director, Memory Disorders Clinic, University of Pennsylvania
10:00 - 10:15 am
Break


10:15am - 11:45 pm
Cultural and racial/ethnic considerations in biomarker collection

David Weir, Ph.D., University of Michigan

Geraldine McQuillan, Ph.D., National Center for Health Statistics

Jim House

11:45am-12:00
Closing - Linda Waite