Clinical Core

Goals and Activities

Assemble and follow a well-characterized diverse group of normal and cognitively impaired participants with standardized medical, neurologic, and neuropsychological evaluations.

Facilitate the acquisition of biospecimens (blood and CSF), sensory and motor data, brain imaging and novel biomarkers from the participants.

Provide participants and data to Duke and UNC investigators and the national Alzheimer’s disease research community for further investigation.

About Our Study

The Duke-UNC Alzheimer’s Disease Research Center’s Memory & Aging Study works to identify the biological factors involved in normal brain aging and disease with the help of a diverse group of young and older people with and without memory impairments.

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Visit the Duke-UNC ADRC Clinical Studies database to find out more about current opportunities to engage in Alzheimer’s and related dementias research.

Core Leader

Richard O’Brien, MD, PhD

Chair, Department of Neurology, Duke University
Disque D. Deane University Distinguished Professor of Neurology
(919) 668-2879

Associate Core Leaders

Kim G. Johnson, MD

Assistant Professor Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Duke University
Assistant Professor and Division Chief, Memory Disorders, Department of Neurology

Heidi Roth, MD

Associate Professor of Sleep Medicine, Memory, and Cognitive Disorders, Department of Neurology, UNC-Chapel Hill

Junior Associate Core Leader

Andy Liu, MD, MS

Assistant Professor, Duke
Data Management Core Liaison

Staff

		Sarrah Belhadj Senior Clinical Research Specialist sarrah.belhadj@duke.edu
		Christina Cameron Clinical Research Coordinator christina.faison@duke.edu
		Leila Hennon Clinical Research Coordinator leila.hennon@duke.edu
		Brittany Hinnant Senior Clinical Research Specialist
		Emily Kilpatrick Senior Clinical Research Coordinator emily.kilpatrick@duke.edu
		Tiffany Kollah Clinical Research Coordinator tkollah@neurology.unc.edu
		Emily Maingi Clinical Research Specialist emily.maingi@duke.edu
		Thomas Shields Clinical Research Coordinator