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Associate Professor, Department of Internal Medicine

RUSH Medical College

Associate Professor, Department of Internal Medicine

Epidemiologist, Rush Alzheimer's Disease Center

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PhD - Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
MA - University of Pennsylvania
BA - University of Pennsylvania
Bryan James, PhD, is an epidemiologist at the Rush Alzheimer’s Disease Center (RADC) and Associate Professor in the Department of Internal Medicine, Section of Community Epidemiologic Research, at Rush University Medical Center. His research focuses on identifying social, psychological, behavioral and medical determinants of Alzheimer’s, dementia, and cognitive decline, as well as describing the societal impact of dementia. Recent focuses include cognitive impairment after hospitalization and the consequences of the timing of a clinical dementia diagnosis. At the RADC, Dr. James leads the Medicare linkage program, is the faculty lead of the Data Documentation and Distribution team overseeing data and specimen sharing (RADC Research Resource Sharing Hub: www.radc.rush.edu), is faculty co-lead of the Study Operations team, and is a member of the Data and Statistics Core. He is the Research Education Component (REC) Core leader of the Rush Alzheimer’s Disease Research Center (ADRC) P30 Grant, overseeing mentorship and training. In addition to his RADC work, Dr, James has contributed to the Alzheimer's Association Annual Facts & Figures Report since 2010, hosts the podcast of the Society for Epidemiologic Research, Epidemiology Counts, is social media editor for the American Journal of Epidemiology (Twitter handle: @BryanDJames), and reviewing editor for Alzheimer’s & Dementia. He is an active member of the Alzheimer’s Association International Society to Advance Alzheimer’s Research and Treatment (ISTAART), the Society for Epidemiological Research (SER), and the Gerontological Society of America (GSA). Dr. James received his PhD in epidemiology from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health in 2009, and his master of bioethics from the University of Pennsylvania in 2001.

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