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Puget Sound GRECC
Puget Sound GRECC
VA Puget Sound Healthcare System
1660 South Columbian Way
Seattle, WA 98108
Phone 206-764-2842
Fax 206-764-2569
GRECC Director
Debby Tsuang, MD, MSc
Associate Director, Research
Brian Kraemer, PhD
Associate Director, Clinical
Katherine Ritchey, DO, MPH
Associate Director, Education and Evaluation
Emily Trittschuh, PhD
Administrative Officer
Elizabeth Aigbe, MS
Elizabeth.Aigbe@va.gov
Affiliations

- Aging, genetics, and environmental factors in neurodegeneration and dementia
- Brain pharmacodynamics and drug transport in normative aging, injury, and dementia
- Endocrinology relating aging, body composition, and cancer

- Genetic dissection of catecholaminergic innervation of the cognitive cerebellum
- Mechanisms of action of ghrelin in muscle and adipose tissue in cancer-related cachexia
- Understanding the interplay between pathological tau and TDP-43 in dementia
- Growth Hormone Replacement Therapy for Veterans with TBI and AGHD and Gulf War Illness and AGHD.
- Approach to the aberrant androgen receptor signaling in lethal prostate cancer
- The role of APOE locus genes regulation in Alzheimer’s disease
- Genetic movement disorders: etiologies and pathogeneses
- Air Pollution, the aging brain and Alzheimer's disease
- Inhibiting MSUT2 as a candidate intervention for aging related tauopathy

- Support of Northwest Geriatrics Education Center lecture series (which spans across the VISN)
- Practicum site for Geriatric Scholars program, which enhances geriatric education in rural facilities
- Training site for psychiatry and medicine fellows and residents
- Support of trainees in optometry, social work, psychology, audiology, and speech pathology
- VISN 20 Dementia Committee and VA Puget Sound education implementation for VA Dementia System of Care Directive
- Hub site for GRECC Connect (virtual geriatrics) and Navigator pilot project
- GRECC Aging Cognition and Education (ACE) workgroup with various Health Aging Brain educational products and home of the 3Ds (Delirium, Dementia, and Depression) pocket card
- GRECC Forum on Aging newsmagazine (a biannual GRECC publication editor
- Advanced training in geriatrics scholarship following completion of clinical training

- Patient Priorities Care (PPC) in CLCs, CBOCs
- Mov-ing FREE-ly (Multipomponent, Otago, Virtual, Falls Reduction, Education, and Exercise Class)
- Pre-operative frailty screening for elective orthopedic surgeries
- Drug Burden Index (DBI) as a way to encourage deprescribing in older adults at risk of falling

- Growth hormone secretagogue receptor-1a mediates ghrelin's effects on attenuating tumour-induced loss of muscle strength but not muscle mass J Cachexia Sarcopenia Muscle https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/34264027/
- Starving lethal prostate cancer by targeting heat shock proteins and glycolytic enzymes Cell Rep Med https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/35243412/
- Loss of aly/ALYREF suppresses toxicity in both tau and TDP-43 models of neurodegeneration Geroscience https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/35122183/
- TOMM40 genetic variants associated with healthy aging and longevity: a systematic review BMC Geriatr https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/35964003/
- Correlates of Conversion from Mild Cognitive Impairment to Dementia with Lewy Bodies: Data from the National Alzheimer's Coordinating Center J Alzheimers Dis https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/35213374/