Associate Professor
Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
Baltimore, Maryland, United States
Jennifer Schrack, PhD, MS is an Associate Professor of Epidemiology with a primary research focus on maintaining mobility and preventing disability with aging. She holds a Masters in Exercise Physiology from the University of Michigan and a PhD in Epidemiology from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. She has extensive clinical and research experience as an exercise physiologist, with an emphasis on the assessment physical function, energy expenditure, and physical activity using accelerometers. She is the MPI of the National Health and Aging Trends Study (NHATS), the PI of a U01 from the NIA to delineate associations among energy regulation, physical activity, and Alzheimer’s disease, and the Co-PI of a R01 from the NIA to investigate sensory and motor contributions to the development of preclinical Alzheimer’s disease. She has overseen the implementation of wearable accelerometers into multiple studies, including the Baltimore Longitudinal Study of Aging (BLSA), the National Health and Aging Trends Study (NHATS), the Multicenter AIDS Cohort Study (MACS), the Study of Physical Resiliency iN Geriatrics (SPRING), the Study to Understand vitamin D and falls in You (STURDY) Trial, the Aging, Cognition, and Hearing Evaluation in Elders (ACHIEVE) Trial, and the Atherosclerosis Risk in Communities (ARIC) study.
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Saturday, November 5, 2022
12:00 PM – 1:30 PM ET
Saturday, November 5, 2022
12:00 PM – 1:30 PM ET
Saturday, November 5, 2022
3:30 PM – 5:00 PM ET