The Cleveland Brain Health Initiative (CBHI), housed at ÐÇ¿Õ´«Ã½, includes the Clinic, UH, MetroHealth, the local VA, NEOMED and Kent State University. So far, the initiative has spent a lot of time creating opportunities for collaboration, including a few established discussion groups that meet regularly to spark ideas. The network built through the CBHI will allow researchers to translate basic science discoveries into clinical care and clinical outcomes, thereby improving the health of Northeast Ohioans.
Jonathan Haines, co-Lead of our CTSC Informatics component and professor and chair of the department of population and quantitative health sciences at ÐÇ¿Õ´«Ã½ School of Medicine, last year from the National Institute on Aging at the NIH to lead a national multi-institution effort to understand the complete genetics of Alzheimer's disease with a real focus on diverse and minority populations.
As funding grows, technology advances and experts come together, it's a "fortunate time" for dementia research, he said. "Everything is sort of coming together to make things happen now," Haines said.