2012 Conference Schedule 2012 ICAA Official Schedule Tuesday, September 11, 2012 Radisson Hotel at USC 5:30 pm Registration 6:30 – 7:30 pm Welcome Dinner 6:00 pm Welcome & Introduction Remarks William A. Vega, Ph.D. Kyriakos Markides, Ph.D. Mark D. Hayward, Ph.D. 6:45 pm Dinner Address: Presidential Campaigns and Implications for Aging Policy Fernando Torres-Gil, Ph.D. Wednesday, September 12, 2012 USC Davidson Conference Center 7:30-8:30 am Continental Breakfast/Registration 8:30 am Welcome Remarks William A. Vega, Ph.D. Jacqueline L. Angel, Ph.D. 9:00 am Opening Keynote: The Mexican Physiological Revolution: Putting Mexico in an International Perspective Eileen Crimmins, Ph.D. 10:00-10:15 am Break 10:15 am Panel Presentation I: Healthy Aging Among Latinos The Hispanic Community Health Study – Study of Latinos: Opportunities for Collaboration Health of Mexicans in America Links between Socioeconomic Circumstances and Changes in Smoking Behavior in the Mexican Population: 2002-2010 Measuring Economic Need among Latino Elders Discussant: Mark D. Hayward, Ph.D. Larissa Avilés-Santa, M.D. Hiram Beltrán-Sánchez, Ph.D. Steve P. Wallace, Ph.D. Noon-1:00 pm Lunch Music Presentation Cuerdas y Voces 1:00 pm Panel Presentation II: Social Determinants of Health and Prevention of Chronic Diseases in Latin American Social determinants of health and functional status in Mexico. Socio-medical research on old age and aging at the Instituto Nacional de Geriatría. Chronic Disease Prevention in Latin America: Examples from the Use of the Coronary Heart Disease Policy Model Discussant: Kathleen H. Wilber, Ph.D. Luis Miguel Gutiérrez-Robledo, M.D., Ph.D. Eliseo J. Pérez-Stable, M.D. 2:10 pm Oral Poster Presentations by Emerging Scholars Measurement bias in neuropsychological tests due to socioeconomic, race/ethnic differences, and chronic health conditions among Spanish and English-speaking populations Age, Heart Conditions, and Co-Ethnic Concentration among Aged Mexican-Americans in the Southwestern United States Childhood Poverty and Depressive Symptoms for Older Adults in Mexico: A Life-Course Analysis Discussant: Donald A. Lloyd, Ph.D. Frances M. Yang, Ph.D. Joseph L. Sáenz Jacqueline M. Torres, M.P.H., M.A. 3:30-3:45 pm Break 3:40 pm Juried Poster Session 4:40 pm Poster Award Ceremony Presider: Terrence Hill, Ph.D. 6:00-8:30 pm By invitation only: Mentoring Dinner McKay’s Restaurant Thursday, September 13, 2012 USC Davidson Conference Center 7:30 am Registration & Breakfast 8:00 am Welcome William A. Vega, Ph.D. 8:05 am Closing Keynote: After Babel : Language and the Challenges of Comparative Research Ronald J. Angel, Ph.D. 9:00 am Panel Presentation III: Behavioral Health Combining qualitative and quantitative methods in research on depression in older Latinos: Results from the Men’s Health and Aging Study United States Migration Experience and Depressive Symptoms among Older Mexicans: Evidence from the Mexican Health and Aging Study Discussant: William A. Vega, Ph.D. Ladson Hinton, M.D. Emily M. Agree, Ph.D. 10:05 – 10:15 am Break 10:15 am Panel Presentation IV: Fuzzy Edges of Hispanic Paradox Research in Aging Estimating Period Life Tables for US Hispanic Sub-Populations Does the Hispanic Paradox in Mortality Extend to Disability? A Comparison of Older Mexicans in the United States and Mexico Discussant: Rubén Rumbaut, Ph.D. Mark D. Hayward, Ph.D. Elizabeth Arias, Ph.D. Border Health in the Shadow of the Hispanic Paradox: Issues in the Conceptualization of Health Disparities in Older Mexican Americans Living in the Southwest Jennifer J. Salinas, Ph.D. Noon Consensus building session William A. Vega, Ph.D. Kyriakos Markides, Ph.D. 1:00 pm Lunch 2:00 – 2:30 pm Closed Session Meeting Conference on Aging in the Americas Advisory Group Publication Meeting Presider: Jacqueline L. Angel, Ph.D.
