Gilmore-Bykovskyi Lab
Promoting effective, meaningful, and equitable care and research for those affected by Alzheimer’s disease and related dementias.
About Our Lab
Our interdisciplinary team is committed to promoting effective, meaningful, and equitable care and research for those affected by Alzheimer’s disease and related dementias, also referred to as ADRD. We advance this mission by investigating care, utilization, and research disparities for people living with and at risk for ADRD and their caregivers.
Our lab is housed in the BerbeeWalsh Department of Emergency Medicine within the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health.
Our Work…
Is grounded in core values of the nursing discipline to maintain, protect, and promote human dignity, health and abilities, and social justice.
Our team is composed of individuals with different perspectives, skills, and experiences who have come together to focus on this common goal in partnership with community stakeholders, people living with dementia, and family caregivers. We value the incredible contributions of research participants, community partners, and academic collaborators working with us to transform the landscape of dementia care and research.
Diversity Statement
We share UW–Madison’s commitment to creating a community where every person feels welcome, valued, and able to succeed. We view diversity as a source of strength, creativity, and innovation and value the contributions of each person with respect for the profound ways their identity, culture, background, experience, status, abilities, and opinion enrich our university and community.
Beyond this, we view diversity and equitable inclusion as inextricably linked to our goals as a team and research unit and understand the critical work of disrupting cycles of structural and systemic discrimination and exclusion to achieve these goals.
Laboratory Highlights
Congratulations to our graduating lab members!
July 11, 2023 Congratulations to our graduating lab members Morgan Schmit, Meghan Botsch, and Lilli Kay! Morgan Schmit (BA) started a Research Specialist position in the UW Department of Surgery on May 17. Meghan Botsch (MS, CF-SLP) moved to Jacksonville, FL to work as an SLP at Brooks...
Dr. Andrea Gilmore-Bykovskyi co-chairs the 2023 Dementia Care and Caregiving Research Summit
February 1, 2023 Dr. Andrea Gilmore-Bykovskyi co-chaired the 2023 Dementia Care and Caregiving Research Summit’s Steering Committee. The Summit was a national meeting of leaders in aging research held by the National Institute on Aging at the National Institutes of Health, with the goal of...
The Brain Health Equity Team develops community-based Brain & Body Fitness program
June 6, 2023 The Brain Health Equity Initiative Team from the Gilmore-Bykovskyi lab developed a novel, community-based brain health promotion program in 2019 called Brain & Body Fitness. The program hosts weekly meetings over the course of 1-2 months focused on brain health education,...
Dr. Gilmore-Bykovskyi receives a grant from the Alzheimer’s Association
December 20, 2022 Congratulations to Dr. Gilmore-Bykovskyi for receiving a grant from the Alzheimer's Association! This grant provides $250,000 for a 1-year project. This project, "Person-Centered Outcome Measures for AD Patient Emergency Care Experiences", will aim to identify and evaluate the...
Dr. Gilmore-Bykovskyi leads telemedicine intervention at UW-Madison
December 2, 2022 As part of the I-CARE 2 RCT: Telehealth to Reduce Alzheimer's-related Symptoms for Caregivers and Patients study, Dr. Andrea Gilmore-Bykovksyi will lead efforts at UW-Madison to assess the use of a telemedicine intervention for Alzheimer's Disease and related dementias (ADRD). The...
Gilmore-Bykovskyi Lab
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