KENNETH M. LANGA
Professor, Department of Internal Medicine.
Research Professor, Survey Research Center.
Associate Director, Institute of Gerontology.
Research Investigator, HSR&D Center of Excellence, Veterans Affairs.
Dr. Langa’s research focuses on the epidemiology and costs of chronic disease in older adults, with an emphasis on Alzheimer’s disease and other dementias. He is currently focusing on the relationship of cardiovascular risk factors to cognitive decline and dementia in middle-age and older adults. In 2007, Dr. Langa was a Visiting Professor in the Department of Psychiatry and Institute of Public Health at the University of Cambridge where he established collaborations with an interdisciplinary research team performing cross-national comparisons of the epidemiology and outcomes of dementia in the United States and England.
Funded Aging Projects
- The Predictors and Long-Term Trajectory of Poststroke Cognitive Decline (NIA)
- Objective and Perceived Neighborhoods Characteristics and Cognitive Decline (NIA)
- Expanding the National Health Accounts (NIA)
- Geographic Variation in the Health and Economic Determinants and Outcomes of Elective Surgery (NIA)
- Healthy People 2020 (NACDD)
- Health and Retirement Study Yrs 23-28 (NIA)
- Understanding Social Disparities in Health and Aging (NIA)
- Health Literacy and Health Disparities Among the Elderly (NIA)
- Expanding the National Health Accounts (NIA)
- Training Geriatric Mental Health Services Researchers (NIMH)
- The Contribution of Functional Decline in Long-term Costs of Severe Sepsis (Society of Critical Care Medicine)
- Creating a National Resource for Genetic Research in Behavioral & Health Sciences (NIA)
- National Trends in Brain Health: a Follow-Up Study of CIND and Dementia in the US (NIA)
- Blood Transfusions: Gender Differences in Utilization, Predictors, and Outcomes (NHLBI)
- Harmonization of Longitudinal Cross-National Surveys of Aging (NIA)
- Changes in Cognitive Performance in Preclinical AD: A Collaborative Analysis (NIA)
- Ethics of Surrogate Consent for Dementia Research (NIA)
- Costs of Dementia (NIA)
- Patterns and Predictors of Cognitive Decline (NIA)
- Health and Retirement Study (NIA)
Publications
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