Core C
Subject Recruitment & Data Acquisition
Abstract:
The Subject Recruitment & Data Acquisition Core will recruit
all subjects and acquire all data for the program project. To do so,
Core C will provide: (1) subject recruiter and subject tester training,
certification and quality control; (2) instrumentation assembly across
the projects into one standardized testing battery; (3) subject
recruitment for all individuals to be ascertained by Core B; (4) all
stages of data collection for all subjects in procedural compliance
with the standardized testing battery (including quality assurance
procedures), from and including informed consents, data collection,
debriefings, compensation, through mortality surveillance; (5)
venipunctures and transfer of blood specimens to Core D (for processing
and analysis); (6) videographic recordings of session conducted with
centenarians and their caregivers, supplemented by still
photographs/slides; and (7) longitudinal follow-up of and data
collection from all centenarian subjects who by virtue of their
enrollment in Project 2 have agreed to donate brain tissue after their
deaths. Data will be collected from 242 centenarians, 80 80-year-old
controls, and 400 control subjects who are 20-59 years.
Core C Investigators:
Leonard W. Poon, Ph.D.
Project Leader
University of Georgia
Co-Core Leader
University of Georgia
Testing Team Manager
University of Georgia
Biomedical Director
Emory University
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Co-Medical Director
University of Georgia
Lennette Burrell, M.S.N., Ed.D.
Co-Medical Director
University of Georgia
Erick McCarthy, Ph.D.
Data Acquisition Team
University of Georgia
Libby Jackson, M.S.W.
Data Acquisition Team
University of Georgia
