welcome! innovative and interdisciplinary careers in aging
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Welcome!Innovative and Interdisciplinary
Careers in AgingMarch 13, 2019
Your moderator…
Andre Pruitt, MSWOregon Health & Science University Healthy Brain Research Network ScholarDoctoral student in the School of Social Work
Innovative and Interdisciplinary Careers in Aging
Cameron Camp, PhD, Director of Research and Development, Center for Applied Research in Dementia
Teresa Arnold, MSW, State Director & Legislative Director, AARP
Lisbeth Nielsen, PhD, Division of Behavioral and Social Research, National Institute on Aging, National Institutes of Health
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Translational Research and Dissemination of Innovations: A Tale of Misspent Youth and
Middle Aged CatharsisCameron J. Camp, Ph.D.
©2019 Cameron J. Camp III & Assoc., LLC
Step One – Get a Doctorate
• Don’t be a clone
• The half life of the Ph.D. [Will what I know now be relevant in 20 years?]
• Find a powerful effect and run with it
Step Two – Get a Job
• The doctorate only opens the door
• Your job is what you make of it
• Be open to discovery
• Be willing to reinvent yourself – multiple times
Step Three – Leave Academia
• Gas masks and disillusionment
• What impact does publication in an academic journal have on the lives of ordinary people?
• Kissinger may have been right.
Step Four – Conduct Truly Applied Research
• Preventing one broken hip is a big thing
• Spaced Retrieval and angels singing
• Montessori – a good leader
• Making ourselves unnecessary
Step Five – Learn how to truly help people
• Helping Sarah in Pocatello
• What do people really need?
• What do people really want?
Step Six – Learn What You Really Need to Know• All the things I wish I had learned
• Berwick, patents, trademarks, and copyrights
• Budgets and contracts
Step Seven ‐‐ Make the Right Friends, and Enemies
• Cherish competent, right thinking colleagues
• Know that you cannot please everyone, which is a very good thing
• Learning to say “no”
• We have limited resources, and every decision to do something means that something else will not be done
Step Eight – Have a Mission, Not a Career
• At the end of the day, what legacy will we leave?
• Making money, publishing, promotion, ‐‐ what is it all for?
• Organize your life around making life better for everyone. Everything else is just whistles and bells.
Teresa Arnold, MSWThere to here
Thirteen years old and 5’9”
Lessons learned over 48 years of working
Start early – Dairy Queen, Newspaper complaint department, Sears, Allstate
Denying insurance claims at 21 years old a fertile training field
Providing quality customer service in whatever field one chooses is critical
Volunteering
From victims of domestic violence to advocacy
Failure
Settling for lessFailure is not the
opposite of success, it is part of success
Getting your foot in the door
Be willing to move on
Working for experience, not for your career or when I became a houseparent for abused children
Mentors and Relationships
Step up
Speak out
Make a difference
Work hard
Most of my job opportunities came through a relationship with someone –including other students, other employees, other colleagues.
Be passionate about what you do
Knowing you make a difference through your work is the best career of all.
Fostering innovative aging-relevant behavioral and social science at the
National Institute on Aging
Lis NielsenDivision of Behavioral and Social Research (BSR)
National Institute on Aging (NIA)National Institutes of Health (NIH)
• B.A. Philosophy• Grad Studies in Applied Ethics• M.A. Psychology• Ph.D. Cognitive Science & Psychology
• Consciousness Studies• Cognition-Emotion Interactions • Psychophysiology and Affective Science
• Post-doc Emotional Aging & Neuroeconomics
Academic Trajectory – Pre-NIA
Boulder
Copenhagen
Tucson
Bethesda
Palo Alto
Memphis
Mentors
• Alfred Kaszniak, U of Arizona
• Laura Carstensen, Stanford
• Brian Knutson, Stanford
• Sidney Stahl, NIA
• Richard Suzman, NIA
John Haaga DirectorDana Plude Deputy Director – Cognition; Small Business
Individual Behavioral Processes (IBP) BranchLisbeth Nielsen, Branch Chief Psychological Development & Integrative ScienceMelissa Gerald Family and Interpersonal RelationshipsJonathan King Cognition; Genetics; Alzheimer’s programsLisa Onken Behavior Change & Behavioral InterventionsLaura Major Health Specialist
Population and Social Processes (PSP) BranchJohn Phillips, Branch Chief Economics of AgingPartha Bhattacharyya Economics of Aging, Health SystemsElena Fazio LTSS, Alzheimer’s programsAmelia Karraker Demography, EpidemiologyGeorgeanne Patmios Demography, EpidemiologyPrisca Fall Health Specialist
Division of Behavioral and Social Research (BSR)
Scientific Staff
Advantages of working at BSR/NIA
• Interdisciplinary environment; Transdisciplinary agenda• Rich scientific connections both within and outside NIH• Job security, federal benefits• Broad perspective, contrasting with academic
specialization• 1/3 mentoring, 1/3 “bureaucracy,” 1/3 science
development• Setting a course for the field
Aging research in NIA/BSR focuses on:
Health, function, and well‐being; not disease‐focused
Aging, not just the aged
Biobehavioral and biosocial integration
Use‐inspired basic research and mechanisms‐focused intervention science ‐ NIH Stage Model & Science of Behavior Change (SOBC)
Addressing fundamental challenges in the social and behavioral sciences
Target Target these mechanisms to modify individual behaviors & social contexts to promote health and prevent disease
Identify Identify the causal mechanisms that account for observed associations
Elucidate Elucidate the pathways by which social, psychological, economic, and behavioral factors affect health
National Advisory Council on Aging Review of NIA/BSR, 2013
Investments in Data Infrastructure
High Priority Behavioral and Social Research Networks (R24/U24)
Networks of scientists addressing fundamental challenges in the social and
behavioral sciences
Reversibility Network
Reproducibility Network
Prevention
Cognitive & Dementia Epidemiology
Disparities
Behavioral and Social Pathways
Early Psychological Changes
Dementia Care
Caregiver ResearchResearch
Resources
• Early detection of cognitive decline
• Affective and social function
• Decision‐making
• Interventions on behavioral risk factors and to prevent decline
• Cognitive training
• Non‐pharmacological interventions
• Demography and economics of care
• Health services research
• Non‐pharmacological interventions
• Caregiver burden
• Economics of caregiving
• Cross‐national comparisons
• Prevalence, incidence, burden of illness
• Trajectories of cognitive aging and decline
• Disparities based on factors such as race, ethnicity, gender, SES, and geographic region
• Educational attainment
• Personality
• Social engagement
Behavioral and Social Research on Alzheimer’s Disease
• Data infrastructure
• Data sharing
• Networks
My Scientific Trajectory at NIA • Social and Affective Neuroscience• Neuroeconomics & Decision Science• Emotion, Stress, and Resilience• Biosocial surveys• Subjective Well-being (Psychology & Economics)• Self-regulation & Personality• Science of Behavior Change• Early Life Adversity and Later Life Health• Midlife Reversibility of Risk
Q&A with our presentersCameron Camp, PhD, Director of Research and Development, Center for Applied Research in Dementia
Teresa Arnold, MSW, State Director & Legislative Director, AARP
Lisbeth Nielsen, PhD, Division of Behavioral and Social Research, National Institute on Aging, National Institutes of Health
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The CDC Healthy Brain Research Network is a Prevention Research Centers program funded by the CDC Healthy Aging Program‐Healthy Brain Initiative. Efforts are supported in part by cooperative agreements from CDC's Prevention Research Centers Program.
This webinar is supported in part by the Healthy Brain Research Network (HBRN), with funding from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Alzheimer’s Disease and Healthy Aging Program. The HBRN is a thematic network of CDC’s Prevention Research
Centers Program and efforts are supported in part via cooperative agreements: U48 DP 005006, 005002, 005010, 005053, 005000, and 005013.
The information and opinions shared during the webinar represent those of the authors and do not necessarily represent the official views of the CDC.
Funding to the HBRN Scholar Program is also provided by the Alzheimer's Foundation of America.
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