16th NIH Matilda White Riley Behavioral and Social Sciences Honors

Monday, May 15, 2023
1:30 p.m. – 4:45 p.m.
Virtual event

1:30 p.m. – 1:35 p.m.	Welcome Remarks Christine M. Hunter, Ph.D., ABPP Acting Associate Director for Behavioral and Social Sciences Research, Acting Director, Office of Behavioral and Social Sciences Research (OBSSR), National Institutes of Health (NIH)
1:35 p.m. – 3:00 p.m.	NIH Matilda White Riley Early-Stage Investigator (ESI) Honorees – Presentations and Q&As Moderator: Sydney O’Connor, Ph.D. Health Scientist Administrator, OBSSR, NIH Developing and applying a novel natural language processing approach to characterize violent deaths in the National Violent Death Reporting System (NVDRS) Alina Arseniev-Koehler, Ph.D. NLM T15 Postdoctoral Trainee in Biomedical Informatics, University of California San Diego Assistant Professor of Sociology, Purdue University (on leave) Psychosocial-behavioral phenotyping and beyond: Biomedical informatics methods for precision behavioral nutrition Marissa Burgermaster, Ph.D. Assistant Professor, The University of Texas at Austin Cognability: An ecological theory of neighborhoods and cognitive aging Jessica Finlay, Ph.D. Research Investigator, University of Michigan Investigating biological pathways underpinning the longitudinal association between loneliness and incident cognitive impairment Ted K.S. Ng, Ph.D. Assistant Professor, Arizona State University
3:00 p.m. – 3:10 p.m.	BREAK
3:10 p.m. – 4:40 p.m.	NIH Matilda White Riley Distinguished Scholar Lecture and Q&A Moderator: Erica Spotts, Ph.D. Health Scientist Administrator, OBSSR, NIH Lifecourse Social and Structural Mechanisms of Inequalities in Cognitive Aging and Alzheimer’s Disease Jennifer J. Manly, Ph.D. Professor, Taub Institute for Research on Alzheimer’s Disease & the Aging Brain, Department of Neurology, Vagelos College of Physicians & Surgeons Columbia University Irving Medical Center
4:40 p.m. – 4:45 p.m.	Closing Remarks Christine M. Hunter, Ph.D., ABPP Acting Associate Director for Behavioral and Social Sciences Research, Acting Director, Office of Behavioral and Social Sciences Research (OBSSR), National Institutes of Health (NIH)
4:45 p.m.	ADJOURN