National Academy of Medicine Archives - Page 5 of 11

Expanding a Multimodality VR Fitness Platform to Remotely Assess, Monitor, and Report Cognitive and Physical Function for Seniors

Jennifer J Stamps, PhD | Rendever; Kyle Rand, Co-founder/CEO, BS/BSE | Rendever
Competition Sponsor: US National Academy of Medicine
Awardee Year: 2022 As healthcare costs and the aging population increase, preventing the loss of cognitive and physical function is an urgent initiative. Social isolation increases the risk of…

Catalyst Awardee

Monitoring of Alzheimer’s Disease Pathology Through Slow Wave Activity During Sleep in Older Adults

Makoto Kawai, MD | Division of Sleep Medicine, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, School of Medicine
Stanford University; Ada Poon, PhD |Department of Electrical Engineering, Stanford University
Competition Sponsor: US National Academy of Medicine
Awardee Year: 2022 It has been suggested that sleep can provide a…

Catalyst Awardee

Multi-modal Microwave Radar & Electroencephalography-based Brain-Computer Interfaces for Non-Invasive Functional Imaging of the Brain

Emily Porter, PhD | The University of Texas at Austin; Jose del R. Millan, PhD | The University of Texas at Austin
Competition Sponsor: US National Academy of Medicine
Awardee Year: 2022 Brain-computer interfaces (BCIs) have the potential to revolutionize the way we treat brain-related injuries and diseases. To…

Catalyst Awardee

Intergenerational Mentoring to Promote Health Across the Lifespan

Corey A. Nichols-Hadeed, JD | University of Rochester Medical Center; Kiah E. Nyame, EdD | City of Rochester; Kimberly A. Van Orden, PhD | University of Rochester Medical Center; Malik R. Sams, MD | University of Rochester Medical Center
Competition Sponsor: US National Academy of Medicine
Awardee Year:…

Catalyst Awardee

Developing a smartphone app to enhance older drivers’ longevity and safety

Johnathon Ehsani PhD, MPH | Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
Competition Sponsor: US National Academy of Medicine
Awardee Year: 2022 This catalyst proposal describes a groundbreaking approach to promote older adults’ longevity, mobility, and safety. Transportation is a social determinant of health, and extending older adults ability to…

Catalyst Awardee

Lifestyle Empowerment Approach for Diabetes Remission (LEADR): A systems-change intervention to achieve diabetes remission for patients and sustainable reimbursement for physicians

Micaela Karlsen, PhD, MSPH | American College of Lifestyle Medicine; Scott Moore, DO; Kara Staffier, MPH; Kathy Pollard, MS
Competition Sponsor: U.S. National Academy of Medicine
Awardee Year: 2022 The Lifestyle Empowerment Approach for Diabetes Remission (LEADR) project proposes an intensive therapeutic lifestyle intervention to support patients living…

Catalyst Awardee

AR Captions Increase Comprehension, Social Connection & Mental Well-Being

Alex Westner | Xander; Marilyn Morgan Westner, PhD | Xander
Competition Sponsor: US National Academy of Medicine
Awardee Year: 2022 Worldwide, about 466 million people experience disabling hearing loss. In the U.S., approximately one in three people between 65 and 74 are impacted by hearing loss and nearly…

Catalyst Awardee

AI-Based Conversational Agent for Monitoring Cognitive Health of Older Adults

Mohammad H. Mahoor, PhD | Dream Face Technologies, LLC & University of Denver; Eshrat S. Emamian, DDS, PhD | Dream Face Technologies, LLC; Hojjat Abdollahi, MS | Dream Face Technologies, LLC; Hiroko Dodge, PhD | Oregon Health and Science University
Competition Sponsor: US National Academy of Medicine
Awardee…

Catalyst Awardee

Uncovering molecular mechanisms of aging clocks with interpretable deep learning

Hong Qin, PhD, MS | University of Tennessee at Chattanooga
Competition Sponsor: US National Academy of Medicine
Awardee Year: 2022 The molecular mechanism of the biological aging clock, such as the DNA methylation clock, remains obscure. We propose developing a knowledge-based neural network (KNN) model to infer the conserved…

Catalyst Awardee

Systems-Aligned Precision Health for Longevity and Healthy Aging with Type 1 Diabetes

Anna Kahkoska, MD, PhD | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill; Kristen Hassmiller Lich, PhD | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill; Michael Kosorok, PhD | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill; John Batsis, MD | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Competition Sponsor: US…

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