2023 Research Expo Keynote and Speakers
Event Moderators
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Clifford Singer, MD, DFAPA, AGSF
Chief of Geriatric Mental Health, and Neuropsychiatry
Northern Light Acadia Hospital
Dr. Singer is a psychiatrist and geriatrician. He serves as chief of Geriatric Mental Health and Neuropsychiatry at Northern Light Acadia Hospital and an adjunct professor at the University of Maine and is president of the Dirigo Maine Geriatrics Society. He leads a multidisciplinary team in the Mood and Memory Clinic at Acadia Hospital and is principal investigator for the Acadia Hospital/Eastern Maine Medical Center Alzheimer’s disease clinical trials program. In 2018, he was selected as a Distinguished Fellow of the American Psychiatric Association and a Fellow of the American Geriatric Society, and he received the Northern Light Eastern Maine Medical Center Annual Award for Clinical Research. He has made national and regional television and radio appearances speaking on topics related to aging and published 38 papers and 20 book chapters and delivered more than 330 presentations. |
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James Jarvis, MD, FAAFP
Director, Clinical Education, Northern Light Eastern Maine Medical Center and
Senior Physician Executive System Incident Command, Northern Light Health
Dr. Jarvis is the Director of Clinical Education for Northern Light Eastern Maine Medical Center and Northern Light Health. He has served as the clinical lead physician for the Northern Light Health response to COVID-19 since early in the pandemic. He was trained in the United States Air Force where he went on to serve as the Triage Officer for the 56th Medical Operations Squadron. He is a McAfee Fellow of the Hanley Institute and the Heller School for Social Policy and Management as well as a Past President of the Association of Family Medicine Residency Directors. Currently he serves on the faculty of the University of New England College of Osteopathic Medicine and the University of Maine Institute of Medicine. He has been with Northern Light Health for 16 years. |
Keynote Speaker
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Clifford Rosen, MD
Associate Director of Clinical and Translation Research, MaineHealth Institute for Research, Scarborough, ME, Professor Medicine, Tufts University School of Medicine; Associate Editor- New England Journal of Medicine
Clifford Rosen MD is a board-certified endocrinologist and basic science investigator at MaineHealth Institute for Research. He has been continuously funded by NIH for nearly 30 years. He previously spent 15 years at The Jackson Laboratory and 23 years as a practicing endocrinologist/internist at St. Joseph Hospital and Eastern Maine Medical Center. He is currently an associate editor at the New England Journal of Medicine and has published more than 570 peer reviewed manuscripts.
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Presenters
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Rebecca MacAulay, PhD
University of Maine, Associate Professor, Department of Psychology
Northern Light Acadia Mood & Memory Clinic
Director of the Cognition Aging Resiliency Enhancement (CARE) Lab at UMAINE
Dr. Rebecca MacAulay is an associate professor in the Psychology Department at the University of Maine at Orono. She is also the Director of the Cognition Aging Resiliency Enhancement (CARE) Lab and licensed Clinical Psychologist with an appointment at the Northern Light Mood and Memory Clinic, she graduated with Honors and BA in Psychology from the University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA). She earned a Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology from the Louisiana State University (LSU) and completed a clinical internship in Neuropsychology and Behavioral Medicine at the Medical University of South Carolina and Ralph Johnson VAMC. Dr. MacAulay’s research program aims to advance brain health and quality of life across the middle to older adult life span by developing novel assessment and intervention techniques. She has a strong track record of multidisciplinary research partnerships and is a collaborator on two well-respected longitudinal cognitive aging studies. She has published 23 peer-reviewed manuscripts, two edited book chapters, and over 50 conference presentations dedicated to better understanding the intersections between physical, cognitive, and mental health disparities in middle-to-older adults. |
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Ivette Emery, PhD
Program Director, Center for Clinical and Translational Science
MaineHealth Institute for Research
Dr. Ivette Emery is the current Program Director for the Center for Clinical and Translational Science at MaineHealth Institute for Research in Portland and Scarborough, Maine. In this position, she is a site’s Co-Investigator of the RECOVER (Researching COVID to Enhance Recovery) trial, which has so far enrolled 119 participants in a 4-year, NIH-funded, longitudinal study focused on Long COVID or PASC (Post-acute sequelae of SARS-CoV-2 infection). In this role she is responsible for the execution of the RECOVER protocol, including the oversight of the clinical research coordinators and other supporting staff. She also serves as Curriculum Director for the Professional Development Core of the Northern New England Clinical and Translational Research (NNE-CTR) Network, where she has developed and implemented training programs for early clinical investigators and other research professionals.
Prior to becoming the Program Director in 2021, she served as Translational Research Navigator and liaison between clinician-scientists and basic scientists at MaineHealth and its affiliates. Facilitating the launch of over 40 early translational research projects that have the goal of determining the relevance of laboratory discoveries to human diseases. Services included assembling multidisciplinary research teams, educating, and mentoring basic scientists and clinicians about the translational research enterprise, and designing, developing, and implementing clinical & translational research protocols.
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Benjamin King, PhD
Associate Professor of Bioinformatics in the Molecular and Biomedical Sciences, University of Maine
Dr. Benjamin King’s research and teaching focus on understanding molecular mechanisms that influence human health and disease through the application of genomics and bioinformatics. He leads the Maine Chronic Kidney Disease Study in collaboration with Northern Light Eastern Maine Medical Center to study genetic factors for this progressive disease that impacts an estimated 15% of adults in Maine. As the Bioinformatics Core co-Director of the Maine Institutional Developmental Award Network of Biomedical Research Excellence (INBRE) Program, he coordinates collaborative data management and analysis services and training for faculty and students across 14 Maine institutions. Prior to joining the faculty at UMaine, he directed bioinformatics core groups at The Jackson Laboratory and Mount Desert Island Biological Laboratory for 12 years. Dr. King earned his B.S. and M.S. in Biomedical Engineering from Boston University and his Ph.D. from the Graduate School of Biomedical Science and Engineering at the University of Maine. |
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Kelly Klein, MD, MPH, FACEP
Emergency Medicine Professional Services
Northern Light Eastern Maine Medical Center
Dr. Kelly R. Klein is a board-certified emergency physician who served as an associate professor at the University of Texas Southwestern, Dallas, TX, USA, and is a recognized international expert in disaster medicine. Dr. Klein is a well-published author and an associate editor for the Journal of Disaster Medicine and Public Health Preparedness. Operationally, she has many years of field deployments to disasters in the USA as a leader in DMAT service and abroad. She now works at Eastern Maine Medical Center in the Department of Emergency Medicine. |
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Sarah Sinclair, DO
Director Medical Oncology and Hematology
Northern Light Eastern Maine Medical Center
Dr. Sinclair is the Medical Director and the Director of the Clinical Research at Northern Light Cancer Care. She is board certified in Hematology and Oncology. Her interests include breast cancer, clinical research, and genomic medicine. Dr. Sinclair received her D.O. from University of New England College of Osteopathic Medicine followed by a residency at University of Connecticut School of Medicine in internal medicine, and a fellowship with the National Cancer Institute in hematology/oncology. |
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Presented in partnership with:
Northern Light Cancer Research
Northern Light Cardiology Research
Northern Light Clinical Research Center |