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jetmjvonk.bsky.social
Neurolinguist & Epidemiologist | Assistant Professor of Neurology @UCSFmac | Language & Dementia - automated speech analysis & item-level verbal fluency | NIA R00 | Communications Chair for the ISTAART Design and Data Analytics PIA | she/her/DrDr
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On behalf of @istaart.bsky.social Design and Data Analytics PIA: Learn valuable skills on March 24 10am CT when you join us for our webinar on how to carry out a meta-analysis in #dementia research with Mike Malek-Ahmadi, Heather Allore and Jet Vonk 🧠📊 Register today: alz-org.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

On behalf of @istaart.bsky.social Design and Data Analytics PIA: JUST OUT—Klee et al. examine multimorbidity contributors to dementia over time. A great international collaboration with researchers from Univ of Luxembourg, OHSU & Yale. Read more: alz-journals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

On behalf of @istaart.bsky.social Design & Data Analytics PIA: New paper by @anacapuano.bsky.social et al explores how #diabetes impacts #Alzheimer's pathology: phosphoprotein patterns in older adults' brains are different in those with diabetes alz-journals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

We need to shout from the rooftops how and why NIH funded health research is important, and what is accomplished with this work: www.bu.edu/sph/news/art... We're not just doing this because we secretly love reformatting our biosketches & spending weekends writing grants. #EpiSky

On behalf of the @istaart.bsky.social Design and Data Analytics PIA: Applications are now open for the ΨMCA 2025 Conference on data harmonization & synthetic data in cognitive aging research. 📅 Aug 10–15 2025, Tahoe City, CA. Apply by Feb 28: psymca.org #CognitiveAging #DataScience

Honored to receive a UCSF Weill Catalyst Award (advancing translational research & entrepreneurship) for my project on speech-based biomarkers. This support & industry-advisor mentorship will help advance scalable non-invasive tools in #dementia research. innovation.ucsf.edu/venture/catalyst-program

On behalf of the @istaart.bsky.social Design and Data Analytics PIA: Join us on March 24 2:00 pm CT for The Basics of the Geriatric Emergency Care Applied Research Network with Dr. Ula Hwang & panelists. Plus, a Basics webinar on systematic reviews is coming soon! Register: alz.org/research-webinars

Invited commentary for J. Neuropsychology (thanks editors @davidebrunophd.bsky.social & @jamiereillycog.bsky.social). Enhancing cognitive tools' sensitivity could better align symptom detection with pathophysiological changes, bridging biological and clinical-biological perspectives on #Alzheimer’s

Another brilliant commentary for our (@jamiereillycog.bsky.social) series on the vices and virtues of the biological dx of #Alzheimer's disease 🧠🧪 (@bpsofficial.bsky.social). This one is by the amazing @jetmjvonk.bsky.social! bpspsychub.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

The great @jetmjvonk.bsky.social strikes again — this time at the deepest heart of the biomarker debate. a little more hyperbolic than is called for on my part

On Dec 17 I defended my second PhD at Utrecht University. This doctorate in Epidemiology complements my first in Speech-Language-Hearing Sciences. Grateful to my promotors & lifelong mentors, Mirjam Geerlings & Jennifer Manly, for their unwavering support. Thesis: pure.umcutrecht.nl/ws/portalfil...

Congrats to Drs. Jackie Torres & Elizabeth Rose Mayeda (and all the other people I do not know on this list but who are probably also amazing)! So proud to get to work with these phenoms working to #EndAlz. www.whitehouse.gov/ostp/news-up...