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<b>January 2026 ISL Faculty Affiliate Meeting </b></div>
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Time:<b> </b>1 PM, January 21, 2026</div>
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<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><b>ISL Planning Grant Cycle 2026-2027</b></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Submission Open: January 10, 2026</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Deadline: March 27, 2026</span></div>
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<b>ISL Aging Expert Panel “Staying Sharp and Connected: What Science Says About Aging Well”</b></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">Time: 10 AM - 11:15 AM, </span><span style="font-size: 16px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">January
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Location: Tallahassee Senior Center</div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">Panelists: Dr. </span><span style="font-size: 16px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Kenneth M. Langa</span><span style="font-size: 12pt;"> (University of Michigan), Dr. Dawn Carr, Dr. Lucinda Graven</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Moderator: Dr. Zhe He</span></div>
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<b>ISL Distinguished Lecture “Study Healthy Aging Around the World in the HRS International Network of Aging Studies"</b></div>
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Time: 3:30 PM - 5 PM, January 29, 2026</div>
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Location: Broad Auditorium of the Claude Pepper Center</div>
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Speaker: Dr. Kenneth M. Langa, Cyrus Sturgis Professor of Medicine at the University of Michigan</div>
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Dr. Langa is an internationally recognized leader in aging research, with a career spanning medicine, public policy, and population health. He is Co-Principal Investigator and Co-Director of the Health and Retirement Study (HRS), and Principal Investigator
of the Harmonized Cognitive Assessment Protocol (HCAP) Project, both funded by the National Institute on Aging. An elected member of the National Academy of Medicine, AAAS, and ASCI, his work has shaped our understanding of the epidemiology and costs of chronic
disease in older adults, particularly Alzheimer’s disease and related dementias. He has published more than 375 peer-reviewed articles and continues to lead major studies examining dementia prevalence, cardiovascular and acute illness impacts on cognition,
and cross-national dementia outcomes.</div>
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</span><span style="font-size: 16px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Professor of Nursing and Computer Science at the University of California, Irvine (UCI)</span></div>
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Bio: Dr. Amir Rahmani is a Professor of Nursing and Computer Science at the University of California, Irvine (UCI), where he also holds the Samueli Endowed Chair of Integrative Health. He serves as the Co-Director of the UCI Institute for Future Health and
leads the multidisciplinary HealthSciTech Group at UCI. His research spans mHealth, data science, wearable and mobile computing, machine learning and AI, affective computing, bio-signal processing, health informatics, and embedded computing. Dr. Rahmani's
contributions have been recognized with the UCI Beall Applied Innovation’s inaugural Faculty Innovation Fellowship, the Nokia Foundation's Research Excellence Award, and the European Union’s Global Marie Curie Fellowship.</div>
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Traditional controlled studies often fall short in capturing the complexity and diversity of real-world healthcare settings. In this talk, we explore how Living Labs—community-embedded, user-centered innovation environments—can bridge this gap by integrating
research directly into everyday life. We highlight the role of advanced methodologies like SMART trial design and a suite of digital health platforms including Centralive, ZotCare, and Personicle. These tools enable personalized, data-driven interventions
by leveraging mobile and wearable technologies, multimedia inputs, and real-time analytics. Building on this foundation, we introduce openCHA, a new open platform for agentic conversational health agents powered by large language models (LLMs) and multimodal
data fusion. Through real-world deployments—such as community-centered maternity care and stress-level monitoring among students—we demonstrate how AI can support dynamic, empathetic, and culturally aware health interventions. This talk outlines a vision for
democratizing healthcare innovation through technology that is personalized, accessible, and grounded in real communities.</div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;"><b>Public Forum: Artificial Intelligence (AI) in Medicine</b> (Organized by
</span><span style="font-size: 16px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Westminster Oaks)</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">Time<b>: </b>Tuesday, 2 PM, </span><span style="font-size: 16px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">February 10, 2026</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">Location<b>: </b></span><span style="font-size: 16px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Maguire Center, Westminster Oaks</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Speaker: Dr. Mia Liza A. Lustria, Professor at School of Information</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Are you ready for an appointment with Dr. AI? Want to know more about how AI is benefitting medicine, including enhanced diagnostics, faster drug development and automated administration? Then please join
us on Tuesday, February 10, at 2:00 PM for a presentation by Dr. Mia Liza Lustria, a professor in the School of Information at Florida State University, where she teaches graduate courses in health informatics and research methods and serves as chair of the
Ph.D. in Information Program. </span>With more than 25 years of experience conducting interdisciplinary, federally funded research, Dr. Lustria’s work sits at the intersection of health informatics, health communication, and digital health intervention development.
Drawing on her research, Dr. Lustria will discuss both the promise and the limitations of artificial intelligence in medicine, including potential benefits for diagnosis and care, as well as concerns related to privacy, trust and access. This presentation
is free and open to the public.</div>
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Cardiovascular Impact</b></span><b>”</b></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Time: 12 PM - 1 PM, </span><span style="font-size: 16px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">February 25, 2026</span></div>
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<div><span style="font-family: Aptos, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Speaker: Dr. Andrea
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Bio: Dr. Andrea Lobene is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Health, Nutrition, and Food Sciences. Prior to joining FSU in 2024, Dr. Lobene completed her postdoctoral training at the University of Delaware in the area of applied cardiovascular physiology.
She received her PhD in Nutrition Science from Purdue University, and she is also a registered dietitian. Dr. Lobene’s research is focused on how various dietary factors, especially sodium and potassium, affect cardiovascular health across the lifespan. Her
aim is to develop and implement effective dietary interventions to improve early cardiovascular disease risk factors. She also hopes her work can contribute to improving current dietary guidelines and policies to improve cardiovascular health at the population
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High sodium diets are a key modifiable risk factor for cardiovascular disease. Unfortunately, most adults exceeds current sodium intake recommendations. The link between sodium and blood pressure is well-documented, but beyond blood pressure, excess dietary
sodium is shown to impair vascular health. Reducing sodium intake to align with current recommendations can mitigate these effects, but unfortunately, reducing sodium intake is challenging and often unsuccessful at the individual level. Exploring alternative
dietary strategies to instead offset the deleterious effects of sodium is necessary. This talk will briefly review the evidence linking sodium intake and cardiovascular health, especially highlighting its effect on endothelial function. We will then discuss
previous evidence from Dr. Lobene and others that potassium may be an effective dietary countermeasure for excess sodium intake. Dr. Lobene’s ongoing work expands upon this foundational knowledge, using controlled feeding studies to establish proof-of-concept
for the interactive effects of sodium and potassium on cardiovascular health, then translating these findings into real-world interventions. The future directions and long-term goals of this work are to develop practical, effective, evidence-based dietary
strategies to reduce cardiovascular disease burden.</div>
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<b>Ester & Del Grosser Scholarship 2026</b></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Deadline: March 2, 2026</span></div>
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<b>Student Poster Day</b></div>
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Florida State University</span></p>
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