Gregory A. Jicha, MD, PhD
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Biosketch
Dr. Gregory Jicha earned an MD from Albert Einstein College of Medicine in Bronx, New York, and completed a fellowship at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota. Dr. Jicha is certified by the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology.
Dr. Jicha serves on the Executive Committee and is the Director of the Clinical Core of the University of Kentucky (UK) and the NIA-funded Alzheimer’s Disease (AD) Center. He also directs the Telemedicine Cognitive Clinic at UK, designed to reach rural populations across Kentucky for clinical and research-related activities in AD and related disorders. Dr. Jicha holds the Robert T. and Nyles Y. McCowan Endowed Chair in Alzheimer’s Research at UK.
His current research interests lie in mild cognitive impairment, clinicopathological correlations in early preclinical disease states, and clinical trials of disease-modifying therapies for AD. He is the principle investigator at UK for the National Alzheimer’s Disease Cooperative Study Group and serves on the Clinical Task Force and Steering Committee for the National Institute of Aging Alzheimer’s Disease Center Program.
Affiliations
- Professor, Neurology
Alzheimer's Disease Research Center
Sanders-Brown Center on Aging
University of Kentucky College of Medicine
Lexington, Kentucky
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Online Activities involving Gregory A. Jicha
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Elder abuse in the form of forced compliance with daily cares such as bathing and dressing, catheterization, or neglect in the form of failure to achieve hygiene or manage incontinence in aged persons with...
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- CME: 1.50
- CNE: 1.50
- ASWB ACE: 1.50
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Type: Video Webcast
- Expires: Mar 1, 2024
- Cost: Free
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Approximately 10% of the population over the age of 65 years (~4.3 million persons) in the United States have been the victims of elder abuse, and this number is expected to double to almost 90 million persons...
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- Credit Amounts:
- CME: 1.50
- CNE: 1.50
- Other: 1.50
- ASWB ACE: 1.50
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Type: Video Webcast
- Expires: May 31, 2024
- Cost: Free
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Addressing end-of-life issues and the provision of Hospice care has been shown to provide numerous benefits to patients and their families including but not limited to: pain and symptom management, quality of...
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- Credit Amounts:
- CME: 1.50
- CNE: 1.50
- Other: 1.50
- ASWB ACE: 1.50
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Type: Video Webcast
- Expires: Sep 6, 2024
- Cost: Free
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Dementia with Lewy Bodies is a common but under recognized form of dementia. Lack of education regarding the clinical diagnosis results in under-diagnosis of this disorder and suboptimal treatment of these...
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- CME: 1.50
- Other: 1.50
- CNE: 1.50
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Type: Video Webcast
- Expires: Jul 31, 2026
- Cost: Free
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Many healthcare providers equate dementia with Alzheimer’s disease. Few understand or diagnose across the full spectrum of causes for the appearance of a clinical dementia. In our studies, almost...
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- CME: 1.00
- Other: 1.00
- ASWB ACE: 1.00
- CNE: 1.00
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Type: Video Webcast
- Expires: Jul 24, 2026
- Cost: Free
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Utilizing a series of cases, participants will demonstrate newly acquired skills in the recognition and diagnosis of dementia in CNF residents. Participants also need to demonstrate the ability to...
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- Credit Amounts:
- CME: 1.50
- CNE: 1.50
- Other: 1.50
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Type: Video Webcast
- Expires: Jul 30, 2026
- Cost: Free
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