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  • Dr. Gladys Maestre (standing, at right), a UTRGV professor of neuroscience and human genetics and director of the UTRGV Alzheimer´s Disease Resource Center for Minority Aging Research, is seen here working with a group of high school students known as the center’s Alzheimer’s Ambassadors. The center provides education, mentoring and support for the ambassadors, Maestre said, so they can go to events and into the community to become the voice of people with Alzheimer’s and their caregivers. (UTRGV Photo by David Pike)
    UTRGV mentoring unexpected advocates for Alzheimer’s patients, caregivers
  • Dr. Gladys Maestre, professor of biomedical sciences at the UTRGV School of Medicine and director of the Memory Disorders Center at UTRGV Institute for Neurosciences, is conducting research about the high number of Alzheimer’s and dementia cases in the Rio Grande Valley’s Latino population.
    Director of Memory Disorders Center at UTRGV Institute for Neurosciences to focus on Alzheimer’s, dementia, in Valley’s

Advancing what we know about Alzheimer’s disease in Hispanics and improving aging for everyone

The mission of The Rio Grande Valley Alzheimer’s Disease Resource Center for Minority Aging Research is to study the impact of Alzheimer’s Disease and related brain disorders among Hispanics. We are focused on developing, testing, and implementing health care strategies to improve diagnosis, patient care, and preventing the development of dementia and Alzheimer's in minorities. This center is one of the Alzheimer’s Disease Resource Centers for Minority Aging funded by the National Institute on Aging.

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Gladys E. Maestre, MD, PhD
Director
Email: Gladys.Maestre@utrgv.edu
Phone: (956) 882-7594
Fax: (956) 665-9797

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Alzheimer’s Disease Resource Center for Minority Aging Research

Welcome

The RGV Alzheimer’s Disease Resource Center for Minority Aging Research (AD-RCMAR) is committed to enhancing the diversity of the workforce and reducing health disparities among Hispanics in South Texas through advanced research in dementia, and minority aging. By working together, we are building an infrastructure and data collections system to attract and support expert researchers from multiple disciplines and at different scientific career stages, encouraging them to conduct research aimed at reducing the impacts of Alzheimer’s disease.

About

The RGV AD-RCMAR was established in 2018 with funding from the National Institute on Aging (NIH, P30 AG059305). Because of its unique geographical location on the South Texas/Mexico border with a large Hispanic population, the focus of the AD-RCMAR is to reduce the impacts of Alzheimer’s disease and related brain disorders among Hispanics and other minority groups.

Our AD-RCMAR leads initiative efforts across UTRGV colleges and administrative departments to work together with patient advocacy groups, community-based organizations, private and public health care providers, state and federal agencies and other academic institutions to enhance the diversity of the workforce in minority aging research.

With a growing group of diverse research investigators studying the disproportionate health and economic burdens of Alzheimer’s disease in Hispanics, we hope to accelerate cutting-edge research programs, interventions, and health care services for Alzheimer’s prevention, along with the care and treatment of dementia tailored to Hispanics and health care providers in the RGV.

Building a Community of Researchers

  • We identify, engage, mentor, and provide high-quality training and individualized career development support to outstanding faculty, especially from underrepresented groups.
  • We support innovative, high-impact multidisciplinary pilot projects.
  • We provide expertise and resources for culturally sensitive measurement and analysis of cognitive risk factors in older Hispanics, including behavioral, neuropsychological, neuroimaging, and cardiovascular and genetic traits.
  • We create the necessary expertise and resources to establish longitudinal cohort studies of older Hispanics and their families.
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