The Dubbo Study hosted this meeting in Sydney on March 30, 2012 as a satellite meeting to ISA2012. The meeting was attended by 30 international and local registrants comprising scientists, clinicians, nurses and carers. The presentations are listed below and included 7 invited presentations and 4 free communications.
Where indicated, the invited speakers have kindly agreed to make available a PDF version of their Powerpoint® presentation. Click on the link where available. Readers are at liberty to reproduce individual slides but are asked to identify source of the material.
Invited Presentations
- Dr Dianna Magliano: “Meta-analysis – methodology, interpretation, pitfalls, examples” (slides not available)
- Prof Perminder Sachdev: “White matter pathology in the ageing brain” (view slides from this presentation here)
- A/Prof Leon Simons: “Dubbo Study of Australian elderly – background and highlights” (view slides from this presentation here)
- Prof John McCallum: “Dubbo Study: Cost and Health Dynamics of Ageing” (view slides from this presentation here)
- Prof John Eisman: “Osteoporosis in men and women: lessons from the Dubbo Osteoporosis and Epidemiology Study” (view slides from this presentation here)
- Prof Henry Brodaty: “Sydney Memory and Ageing Study” (view slides from this presentation here)
- Prof Lynn Chenoweth: “Assessing and supporting well-being in persons with dementia” (view slides from this presentation here)
Free communications
- R. Frikke-Schmidt: “Serum soluble CD163 and total and disease-specific mortality in the general population”
- S.V. Jargin: “Testing of drugs and dietary supplements in cell cultures or how to make the elderly pay for placebos”
- J. Sundstrom: “MetaHealth – a Swedish meta-analytic collaboration for the exploration of risk factors for uncommon diseases”
- P Blumenfeld: “Searching for the missing heritability of diabetes – related phenotypes: parent-of-origin effects in the Jerusalem Perinatal Study”