Demonstration Project: Alzheimer's Disease
Demonstration Project: Alzheimer's Disease
Leads: Joseph E. Gaugler, PhD, and Riley McCarten, PhD
The Alzheimer's demonstration project is designed to explore the feasibility and acceptability of various precision medicine and health approaches for dementia care and treatment in diverse contexts.
Demonstration Project: Depression
Leads: Gerald August, PhD, and Jeff Bishop, PharmD
The depression demonstration project features the use of mobile health technologies to assist in the assessment, monitoring, and treatment of depression provided by primary care clinicians for populations faced with disparities that affect accessibility, quality, and affordability of mental health care.
Demonstration Project: Lung Cancer
Demonstration Projects:
Lung Cancer and Nicotine Metabolism
Leads: Dorothy Hatsukami, PhD, and Abbie Begnaud, MD
These two demonstration projects aim to better understand lung cancer in Minnesota Native Americans. One project studies nicotine metabolism in Natives who smoke and one project investigates lung cancer gene mutations in Natives with lung cancers.