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Ms.  Brown is our clinical study coordinator. She is responsible for coordinating all services offered to Clinical Core enrollees such as arranging scheduled visits for subjects with physicians, psychometrician and other staff as well as tracking subjects for follow-up visit.  Ms. Brown assist the physician with the clinical assessments as well as the collection of biological specimens. 

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 Ms. DeBusk brings to the IADC over twenty-five years of experience in managerial and administrative business. As the new IADC administrative secretary, Ms. DeBusk assists the director in the coordination and administration of a large range of Center's activities, including grants applications, manuscript publications, organization of local and international educational events for scientists and caregivers, as well as announcement and granting of IADC sponsored research pilot projects. Ms. DeBusk coordinates the interaction and collaboration with other Alzheimer Disease Centers, the National Alzheimer's Coordinating Center and the National Institute on Aging. As administrator of the IADC Neuropathology Core database, Ms. DeBusk secures accuracy and confidentiality of all the scientific information derived from the neuropathologic studies carried out at our center, and is involved in the editing and delivery of summary reports to patients' families, clinicians and caregivers.    

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Mrs. Dupree is the Senior Histotechnologist/ Supervisor of the Neuropathology Research and Dementia Laboratory.  She assists in the general supervision of laboratory personnel in respect to the quality of work, the designing of work schedules, balancing of the work load and other personnel matters.  She is instrumental in providing data for grants and record keeping of all cases.  Tissue procurement, receiving, logging-in, organizing and storing fixed and frozen specimens is also her duty.  She is involved in all the aspects of processing, cutting and staining of brain tissue and other organs from patients with sporadic and familial dementias.  She has seventeen years of experience using a Polycut microtome and produces high quality coronal brain sections that are used for diagnosis, clinicopathological correlations and medical education

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Ms. Epperson has been with the center for over 17 years. She is the IADC Autopsy Coordinator. Her job consists in interacting with families, funeral homes and IU faculty and staff, at the time of patients' passing, in order to guarantee the most timely and efficient autopsy procedures to all brain donors participants.  

Ms. Epperson's responsibilities include overseeing regulatory documents, interacting with the IU Institutional Review Board, and securing compliance with HIPAA regulations regarding storage and transfer of protected health information. Ms. Epperson collaborates with the IADC Clinical Core in regard to the recruitment of new subjects, and assists in the management of longitudinal studies with specific emphasis on familial disorders.

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Ms.  Ludy is the Educational Assistant and she is responsible for maintaining the mailing list and databases for the Reflection newsletter, educational mailings, recruitment and outreach efforts.  She also manages the program evaluation data with the help of our Data Core and assists with meetings.

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Ms. Pennington is a Senior Electron Microscopist. She obtained her bachelor degree in Biology and her master degree in Botany from Oklahoma State University. She has been an electron microscopist for twenty-seven years.  She aids researchers at the center in the study of neuropathology at the ultrastructural level.  This includes immunocytochemistry using post-embedding immunogold techniques.  The IADC is equipped with a state of the art, FEI,Tecnai Spirit, transmission electron microscope with digital imaging capabilities. 

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Mr. Swetz is the IADC Data Manager and his  primary responsibility is to ensure the quality of the data collected by the center.  His main responsibilities are data cleaning and reporting on the completeness and accuracy of data.  He also support ad-hoc query requests, comment on proposed changes to our data collection system, provide summary statistics such as counts summarizing demographics, and test upgrades to our data management system.