DeltaQuest has provided the resources to organize international working groups to collaborate on methodological research and theory development. These working groups have evolved by building on diverse approaches to collaboration. We have hosted and organized a small conference to seed ideas and collaborations, followed up by collaborative consortium teams to write manuscripts and plan collaborative projects. Utilizing end-user-friendly technological advances, we are currently advancing a number of manuscripts earmarked for different peer-reviewed publication venues. These manuscripts build on the collaborations developed in the small conference setting.

Neurological Reserve Think Tank 2014

Harvard Faculty Club, Cambridge, MA
Dec. 14-16, 2014
Sponsored by an unrestricted educational grant from Biogen

Below are some pictures from the conference:

Think Tank 2014

Neurological Reserve Think Tank 2014 Participants

Row 1: From left to right

Richard Jones, Sc.D., Department of Psychiatry and Human Behavior, Warren Alpert Medical School, Brown University, Providence, RI, USA; Carolyn Schwartz, Sc.D., DeltaQuest Foundation and Departments of Medicine and Orthopaedic Surgery, Tufts University Medical School, Concord, MA, and Boston, MA, USA; Department of Nursing, Oslo and Akershus University College of Applied Sciences, Oslo, Norway; Yaakov Stern, Ph.D., Taub Institute, Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons, New York, NY, USA; Bianca Weinstock-Guttman, M.D., Department of Neurology, Jacobs Neurological Institute, Buffalo General Hospital, SUNY Buffalo, Buffalo, NY, USA; Timothy Vollmer, M.D., Department of Neurology, University of Colorado School of Medicine, Aurora, CO, USA.

Row 2:

Enrique Alvarez, M.D., Ph.D., Department of Neurology, University of Colorado School of Medicine, Aurora, CO, USA.; John DeLuca, Ph.D., Kessler Foundation, West Orange, NJ, USA; Inger Utne, Ph.D., Oslo and Akershus University College of Applied Sciences, Oslo, Norway; Randi Andenaes, Ph.D., Department of Nursing, Oslo and Akershus University College of Applied Sciences, Oslo, Norway; Robert Zivadinov, M.D., Ph.D., FAAN, Department of Neurology, Buffalo Neuroimaging Analysis Center, Buffalo General Hospital, SUNY Buffalo, Buffalo, NY, USA; Ivan Barofsky, Ph.D., The Quality of Life Institute, Sandwich, MA, USA.

Row 3:

Bruce Rapkin, Ph.D., Department of Epidemiology and Population Health and Division of Community Collaboration & Implementation, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, NY, USA; Victoria Leavitt, Ph.D., Department of Neuropsychology, Neurological Institute of New York, New York, NY, USA; Christian Habeck, Ph.D., Taub Institute, Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons, New York, NY, USA; George Rebok, Ph.D., M.A., Department of Mental Health, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, USA; John Quackenbush, Ph.D., Department of Biostatistics, Dana Farber Cancer Institute and Harvard Chan School of Public Health, Boston, MA, USA; Yuelin Li, Ph.D., Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY,USA; James Sumowski, Ph.D., Kessler Foundation, West Orange, NJ, USA; Michael Dwyer, Ph.D., Departments of Neurology and Biomedical Informatics, Buffalo Neuroimaging Analysis Center, Buffalo General Hospital, SUNY Buffalo, Buffalo, NY, USA; Ralph Benedict, Ph.D., Department of Neurology, SUNY Buffalo, Buffalo General Hospital,, Buffalo, NY, USA; Tim Ahles, Ph.D., Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY,USA; Brian Healy, Ph.D., Department of Neurology, Harvard Chan School of Public Health, Boston, MA, USA.


Response Shift Think Tank 2010

Harvard Faculty Club, Cambridge, MA
Sept. 19-21, 2010

Below are some pictures from the conference:

Think Tank 2010

Response Shift Think Tank 2010 Participants

Row 1: From left to right

Bryce Reeve, PhD, Department of Health Policy and and Management. University of North Carolina at ChapelHill, Chapel Hill, NC, USA; Alex Michalos, PH.D., F.R.S.C., Faculty of Arts, Brandon University, Brandon, Canada; Sara Ahmed, PhD, PT School of Physical and Occupational Therapy, McGill University, Montreal, QC, Canada; Lena Ring, PhD, Department of Pharmacy, Uppsala University and AstraZeneca Uppsala, Sweden; David Wasserman, JD, MA, Center for Ethics, Yeshiva University, New York, NY, USA.

Row 2: (kneeling)

Michael Brundage, MD, MSc, FRCPC, Department of Oncology, Queen's University, Ontario, Canada; Joel Finkelstein, MD, MS, Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre, Toronto, Ontario, Canada; Ruth Barclay-Goddard, PhD, MHSc, BMR(PT), Department of Physical Therapy, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada.

Row 3:

Bruce Rapkin, PhD, Department of Epidemiology and Population Health and Division of Community Colaboration & Implementation, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, NY, USA; Mirjam Sprangers, PhD, Department of Medical Psychology, Academic Medical Center/University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands; Carolyn Schwartz, ScD, DeltaQuest Foundation and Departments of Medicine and Orthopaedic Surgery, Tufts University Medical School, Concord, MA, and Boston, MA, USA; Nancy May, PhD, MSc, BSc(PT, School of Physical and Occupational Therapy, and Division of Clinical Epidemiology, Division of Geriatrics, McGill University, Montreal, QC, Canada; Angela (Licia) Carlson, PhD,Department of Philosophy, Providence College, Providence, RI, USA; Sandra Nolte, PhD, Association of Dermatological Prevention, Buxtehude, Germany; Bradley Morgenstern, MD Candidate, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, NY, USA; Colleen McCarthy, MD, Department of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, New York, New York, USA.

Row 4:

Michael Kallen, PhD, MPH, Department of General Internal Medicine, The University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX, USA; David Eton, PhD, Dept. of Health Sciences Research, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN, USA; Marjan Westerman, PhD, Department of Qualitative Research Methods, Faculty of Earth and Life Sciences / Health Sciences Department of Methodology and Applied Biostatistics, Vrije Uiversiteit Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands; Yuelin Li, PhD, Behavioural Science, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY, USA; Frans Oort, PhD, Department of Education Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands; Brian Quaranto, BS/BA Candidate of Biology and Philosophy, Boston College and DeltqQuest Foundation, Chestnut Hill, MA and Concord, MA.

Videoconferencing with Peg

Video Conferencing with Prof. Margaret Nosek of Baylor College of Medicine
Shown with Research Assistant Brian Quaranto and Dr. Carolyn Schwartz