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Dr. Anthony Molina at Warwick's in La Jolla

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Dr. Anthony Molina in conversation with New York Times bestselling author Caroline Paul about her new book TOUGH BROAD: How Outdoor Adventure Improves Our Lives as We Age

Caroline Paul is the author of the New York Times bestseller The Gutsy Girl: Escapades for Your Life of Epic Adventure and Lost Cat: A True Story of Love, Desperation, and GPS Technology, which has been translated into fifteen languages. She is also the author of the memoir Fighting Fire, the middle-grade book You Are Mighty: A Guide to Changing the World, and the novel East Wind, Rain. Her TED Talk, “To Raise Brave Girls, Encourage Adventure,” has been viewed over 2 million times. A longtime member of the Writers Grotto, she lives in San Francisco.

Anthony Molina, PhD, is a Professor of Medicine at UC San Diego and serves as the Research Chief in the Division of Geriatrics, Gerontology, and Palliative Care. Dr. Molina is the Scientific Director for the Stein Institute for Research on Aging and the UCSD Center for Healthy Aging. The overarching goal of Dr. Molina's research is to promote healthy aging and to advance precision healthcare for older adults. His team is leading efforts to: 1) understand the multi-faceted factors influencing the cognitive and physical abilities of older adults, 2) develop improved diagnostic and prognostic tools for age-related diseases and disorders, and 3) identify strategies for promoting healthy longevity. He lives in La Jolla with his wife, son, and dog. The Molinas enjoy shopping at Warwick’s and stop by often for a game of chess. 

 

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Maria Rosario (Happy) G. Araneta PhD, MPH, is Associate Dean of Diversity and Community Partnerships and Professor of Epidemiology in the Department of Family Medicine. Her research interests include maternal and pediatric HIV/AIDS, birth defects, life course exposures, social determinants of health, and health disparities.   She received her BA in Biology from UCSD and her MPH and PhD in Epidemiology from Yale University She is the co-Principal Investigator of the Diabetes Prevention Program Outcomes Study (DPPOS) where UC San Diego is one of 25 participating sites. This longitudinal study, with over 20 years of follow-up, aims to identify the risk factors, mechanisms, and neuropathology of cognitive impairment in persons with pre-diabetes and type 2 diabetes, during the current funding cycle.  Dr. Araneta is the PI of the UCSD Filipino Health Study, a longitudinal study of myriad health outcomes among Filipino men and women, co-investigator of the Rancho Bernardo Study, where she leads research on health disparities in osteoporosis, type 2 diabetes, and cardiovascular disease among elder White, Filipino and Black women (Health Assessment Study of African-American Women).  She served as a perinatal epidemiologist for the UC San Diego Mother, Child and Adolescent HIV Program, was a co-investigator on maternal and perinatal HIV studies in Mexico, and co-investigator to assess health advantages and disparities in reproductive outcomes by race/ethnicity and nativity. Her prior research included studies on birth defects and adverse reproductive outcomes among Gulf War veterans, HIV transmission through donor artificial insemination, mother-to-child HIV/AIDS transmission, and behavioral intervention studies, including restorative yoga, active stretch and Zumba Fitness to reduce components of the metabolic syndrome.

Dr. Araneta received the 2014 American Diabetes Association’s Vivian Fonseca and Nagendran Family Diabetes Research Award for her research on diabetes among Asians and Pacific Islanders, the Best of Care Award as author of the leading 9 publications in "Diabetes Care" in 2015, and the Inaugural Wing Family Lectureship at the Joslin Diabetes Center, Harvard Medical School in 2017. She was appointed to a four year term on the NIH Advisory Council for the National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities from 2015 to 2019, and selected to serve on the NIH Council of Councils from 2018 to 2024.

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Student Poster Award Winners

Please join us in congratulating our Poster Award Winners from our Symposium on October 6th!

First Place

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Marcos Moliné, undergraduate researcher in the Molina Lab at UCSD Health, and MADURA (Mentorship for Advancing Diversity in Undergraduate Research on Aging) program student

Title: “Characterization of age-related bioenergetics in human fibroblasts”

Second Place (3 way tie)

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Miya Gentry, Doctoral Student, SDSU/UCSD Joint Doctoral Program in Clinical Psychology

Title: “Presence of and search for meaning in life: early adversity and self-compassions role”

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Lucía Rivera, undergraduate researcher in the Molina Lab at UCSD Health, and MADURA (Mentorship for Advancing Diversity in Undergraduate Research on Aging) program student

Title: “Relationships Between Optimism and Pain in Older Adults”

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Emma Rice, second-year medical student, UCSD School of Medicine

Title: Correlations between activity levels and hippocampal tau using the CHAMPS questionnaire (Communities Healthy Activities Model Program for Seniors)

Trainee Poster Awards

First Place

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Nargis Ahmadi, undergraduate research assistant at Women Inflammation and Tau Study, UCSD Health

Title: “Vigor and Physical Activity Related to Low Tau Pathology in Older Women at Higher Risk for Alzheimer’s Disease”

Second Place

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Molly Patapoff, BA, Research Program Manager, Department of Psychiatry, UCSD Health

Title: Remotely-Administered Resilience and Self-Compassion Intervention Targeting Loneliness and Stress in Older Adults