Welcome to the Alzheimer's Research Podcast
Hi, everybody. Welcome to the Alzheimer's Research Podcast. How are you, Mickenzie?
Mickenzie Vought:I'm Joanne Grace Shelley. I am so excited about this podcast, and I am so grateful that you have pulled me in to help you cohost. Will you tell us a little bit about what your hopes are for the podcast as we continue to dive in and chat with people who are on the front lines of this research?
Shelley Moore:Well, I'm really excited to share with you all of the work that my colleagues do here, and I'm by no way means an expert either. I am the, cheerleader, and I've been watching these folks for almost ten years now. And I'm really excited to have you get a chance to learn more about what goes on behind the scenes so that you understand really how much care and thought goes into the design of everything we do, how we always are putting our participants first, and thinking about what is the best way to move this field forward faster.
Mickenzie Vought:Oh, I love that. And you said for almost ten years, what is your role at the Alzheimer's Therapeutic Research Institute?
Shelley Moore:So I wear many hats. I I started out in, participant recruitment and retention. But as an academic coordinating center, that means more about how we design the recruitment and support because we're always running multisite clinical trials. Meaning, we work with every academic institution around the world that can do this work with us. So we wanna have the studies be as generalizable as possible.
Shelley Moore:We wanna have the best way to recruit people to participate from all over the world. I work in, helping communicate and share the stories of our work to the rest of the world. I think it's important for people to understand and have confidence in the new treatments that they're as they're becoming available, but also get excited with us about what the future holds because we have technology and the speed of our work has accelerated so much that we are now seeing the path forward much more clearly now. We have a vision for how we will prevent this disease within the next ten years.
Mickenzie Vought:Yeah. Kind of as I got pulled in on this project, that is the thing that really grabbed ahold of me. And I said, I need to be a part of it to get to share this message, this hope, kinda share what you guys are doing day in and day out. And that's the tagline, right, within the next ten years. And so I am so excited to get to learn more, to be alongside you throughout this series as we really do get to meet your incredible team members.
Mickenzie Vought:And I'm gonna be a cheerleader right alongside you, and
Shelley Moore:I'm gonna ask the questions that maybe our audience has if they're not familiar with this space like I'm not, and I just am really grateful. You're gonna learn a lot. You're gonna meet a lot of amazing people with really interesting stories. We all are here in San Diego, except when our team is traveling to all of our sites all over the world or traveling to our meetings with our all of our colleagues. It's gonna be great, and you're gonna really be interested in how this work comes together. So it's not gonna be a mystery. Who are the people behind the science?
Mickenzie Vought:I love that. Who are the people behind the science? This is gonna be an incredible series, and I'm so grateful to get to do it alongside you, Shelly.
Shelley Moore:Thanks, Mickenzie. Thanks for listening today. If you'd like more information, please visit us at atri.usc.edu. Thank you.
