Presidential Symposium: Building and Leveraging Community Partnerships that Embrace Diversity, Enrich Discovery, and Reimagine Aging

Saturday, November 5, 2022

3:30 PM – 5:00 PM ET

Location: Sagamore 6-7 CC

CE: 1.5

Chair(s)

Kalisha Bonds Johnson, PhD, RN, PMHNP-BC

Assistant Professor, Tenure Track
Nell Hodgson Woodruff School of Nursing
Emory University
Atlanta, Georgia, United States

Slides

Co-Chair(s)

Brianna Morgan, PhD (c), MSN, CRNP

Predoctoral Fellow
School of Nursing
University of Pennsylvania
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States

Discussant(s)

Katherine Abbott, PhD, MGS, FGSA

Executive Director, Scripps Gerontology Center Professor, Department of Sociology & Gerontology
Sociology & Gerontology
Miami University
Oxford, Ohio, United States

Individual Symposium Abstract First Author(s)

CE

Christopher Engeland, PhD

Associate Professor
Biobehavioral Health
Pennsylvania State University
University Park, Pennsylvania, United States
AG

Andrea Gilmore-Bykovskyi, PhD, RN

Associate Professor
Nursing
University of Wisconsin-Madison
Madison, Wisconsin, United States
Martina Roes, RN, PhD, FGSA, FAAN

Professor for nursing Science and Health care research
Person-Centered-Dementia-Care
German Center for Neurodegenerative Diseases (DZNE)
Witten, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany

Are you an ESPO member or early careerist who is interested in creating meaningful and engaging partnerships with different stakeholders? Want to learn how to leverage partnerships across diverse research settings and make impactful change? Or are you unsure of all the “hype” surrounding engaging communities and key stakeholders? If you answered “yes” to any of these questions, this symposium is for you. The ESPO Presidential Symposium will highlight three speakers who will share their career stories and a discussant with expertise in building and keeping important collaborations that influence aging research. Speakers include Drs. Christopher G. Engeland, Andrea Gilmore-Bykovskyi, and Martina Roes. Dr. Katherine Abbott will serve as the discussant. Starting at the basic science end of the research spectrum, Dr. Engeland will focus on communicating and collaborating at the intersections between research settings to carry science from the bench to the bedside. Next, moving to research that focuses on aging older adults in clinical research, Dr. Gilmore-Bykovskyi will discuss how she has established, maintained, and evolved her career in Alzheimer’s disease and related dementias across diverse research paradigms. Lastly, Dr. Roes will provide and international perspective and shares how she builds trust with the co-creation of research with persons living with dementia and their significant others.

Learning Objectives:

To describe how building collaborations with key stakeholders and diverse communities has influenced your research, including positive outcomes and challenges
To provide practical strategies for early careerists on how to engage and build partnerships in aging science

Presentations:

3:30 PM – 5:00 PM ET

Pros and Cons of Performing Research at an Intersection of Multiple Disciplines
Individual Symposium Abstract First Author: Christopher G. Engeland, PhD – Pennsylvania State University
3:30 PM – 5:00 PM ET

Engaged Research: Humility, Listening, Better Questions, Better Answers
Individual Symposium Abstract First Author: Andrea L. Gilmore-Bykovskyi, PhD, RN – University of Wisconsin-Madison
3:30 PM – 5:00 PM ET

Engaging and Involving People Living With Dementia in Research: What to (Not) Expect
Individual Symposium Abstract First Author: Martina Roes, RN, PhD, FGSA, FAAN – German Center for Neurodegenerative Diseases (DZNE)