Associate Professor
University of Wisconsin Madison
Madison, Wisconsin, United States
Andrea Gilmore-Bykovskyi, PhD, RN, is an Associate Professor in the BerbeeWalsh Department of Emergency Medicine at the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health, where she also serves as Associate Vice Chair for Research. Dr. Gilmore-Bykovskyi also serves as Deputy Director of the University of Wisconsin-Madison Center for Health Disparities Research (CHDR) and Informatics Lead for the University of Wisconsin Alzheimer’s Disease Research Center (ADRC) Care Research Core.
Dr. Gilmore-Bykovskyi leads a funded program of research focused on promoting effective, meaningful, and equitable care and research for people living with and at risk for Alzheimer’s disease and related dementias. Her goal is to identify and effectively intervene on structural and health system barriers to optimal ADRD-specific care and patient/caregiver-centered outcomes. Much of her research has focused on addressing these priorities among vulnerable populations at high-risk points in the health and care continuum, such as during and after emergency department care and hospitalization and in advanced disease stages. Dr. Gilmore-Bykovskyi has led advances in ADRD health services research that have stewarded new areas of investigation surrounding ADRD-specific care delivery patterns and outcomes and established frameworks to advance research equity and inclusion. She has coauthored over 80 publications and led numerous NIH and foundation-funded projects. Her recent work focuses on identifying and characterizing episodes of paradoxical lucidity in people living with advanced ADRD near end of life.
Dr. Gilmore-Bykovskyi has mentored over 25 students and advanced trainees across a range of methodologies. She is also dedicated to engaging with community partners and working directly with people living with dementia and caregivers to fully integrate their perspectives into the research process and results. At a national and international level to initiatives focused on addressing the care needs of people living with dementia and disparities in equitable research access and inclusion.
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The Cutting Edge of Gerontological Scholarship: The Gerontologist's Editor's Choice Symposium
Friday, November 15, 2024
12:00 PM – 1:30 PM PST
1 - “It's You”: Caregiver and Clinician Perspectives on Lucidity in People Living With Dementia
Friday, November 15, 2024
12:00 PM – 1:30 PM PST