Edwin S.H. Leong Centre for Healthy Aging

Conducting interdisciplinary research at UBC to promote health and well-being for all older adults living in British Columbia, across Canada & around the world!

[Edwin S.H. Leong Centre for Healthy Aging @UBCAging]

Missed a Dialogue on Aging presentation?

🎥 Explore recordings from past talks on:

🌱 Empowered Aging
👂 Sensory Systems & Aging
🌎 Climate Change & Aging
🏥 Innovations in Care
🧬 Biology & Aging
🧠 Cognition, Memory & Aging

Watch the recordings: https://t.co/b5t1aLrXK3

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🎉 Congratulations to our 2026 Healthy Aging Summer Student Research Award recipients:
Emma Lo
Isabelle Chung
Emma Goucher
Maya Lehman
We’re excited to support their healthy aging research this summer!
https://t.co/DaW60xTB8b
#HealthyAging #UBC

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Thank you to everyone who joined us for ELCHA Research Day 2026! 🎉

From trainee and faculty talks to workshops, networking, and trainee presentation awards, it was an inspiring day showcasing healthy aging research at UBC.

Congratulations to our award winners! 🏆

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🎉 A new training program focused on genomics + aging biology is launching with support from a $1.65M NSERC CREATE grant.
AGEnomics, led by Dr. Stefan Taubert and collaborators at UBC + UVic, will help train the next generation of aging researchers.
#HealthyAging #UBC

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🌱 Healthy Aging Seminar: Colin Milner @colinmilner
“What if we stopped designing systems around the assumption that aging means decline?”
Join us for:
From Decline to Potential: The Ripple Effect of Healthy Aging
🗓️ May 21 | 11 AM PT
📍 UBC + Online
🔗 https://t.co/Qh9KilSg8x

[Edwin S.H. Leong Centre for Healthy Aging @UBCAging]

🎉 Congratulations to ELCHA Investigator Dr. Brent Page on receiving a CIHR Institute of Aging Early Career Researcher Award.

His research focuses on developing new therapeutic strategies for Alzheimer’s disease.

🔗 https://t.co/dsWn54pUvr

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👨‍👩‍👧Stroke is more than a single event – it’s a lifelong journey. Join us on May 7 for a webinar exploring recovery, resilience & lived experiences from childhood through adulthood. This event is hosted in collaboration with the @UBCAging: https://t.co/KIHyOWXO1f

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🖥️Join the @LeongCentre Trainee Hub on May 20 for a workshop on getting started with community engagement in research! Learn how to identify interest holders and build a plan to involve them meaningfully: https://t.co/g9j0ARDkBx

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✨ Mark your calendar for May 7! Don’t miss this engaging webinar on Stroke Across the Lifecourse, presented in collaboration with the @UBCAging. The session brings together both clinical insight and lived experience: https://t.co/KIHyOWYlQN

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🧠 Registration is open!
ELCHA Research Day 2026
🗓️ May 14 | UBC
Keynote, trainee & faculty talks, posters, workshop + networking
Open to UBC faculty, staff & trainees
🔗 https://t.co/02FtOy1ZLw

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Advancing Insights in Neurodegeneration & Aging

Join the 12th Edition International Conference on Aging & Gerontology

📅May 11–12, 2026 | 📍Tokyo, Japan

Website: https://t.co/m8md5Pk0dh

#Neurodegeneration #Aging #Gerontology #BrainHealth #Neuroscience

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Thank you to everyone who joined our Dialogue on Aging seminar with Dr. Nicole Dalmer last week.

Great discussion on how people navigate information about later life care and the different ways individuals approach these conversations.

#HealthyAging #UBC

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🗓️ April 16 is #ACPDay
Advance care planning helps people reflect on what matters most and share their wishes for future care.
A key part of our Dialogue on Aging theme:
Navigating care & information as we age
Learn more:
https://t.co/PfGbMDAvOK

[Edwin S.H. Leong Centre for Healthy Aging @UBCAging]

🧬 Healthy Aging Seminar – Dr. Sheela Abraham
Explore how aging affects stem cells and disease risk, including cancer and chronic conditions.
📅 April 14 | 10:30–11:30 AM
📍 UBC + Zoom
Register:
https://t.co/GMwElftwf4
#HealthyAging #UBC

[Gerontological Society of America (GSA) @geronsociety]

New research shows influenza costs the US nearly $29B per flu season. In part 2 of GSA's 6-webinar series on Concentric Value of Vaccination, explore how increasing vaccination rates can protect health, strengthen communities, and reduce costly impacts.
https://t.co/1Ph8McfqrL

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Don’t let procrastination win. Join a peer-led online GSA Dissertation Writing Group! Registration opens April 20. https://t.co/va2i44gdOz #phdlife #dissertation

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✨ May 6 | Join Dr. Arjumand Siddiqi (@UofT_dlsph), @LeongCentre Chair in Child Policy Research, for a webinar exploring how statistical approaches have shaped our understanding of #SDOH, and what may still be overlooked:

Learn more: https://t.co/sUBwTxajbZ

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🧠 Dialogue on Aging — Spring Series Launch
Dr. @nicoledalmer will present:
“Asking the Big Questions: Finding Information About Death in Later Life”
📅 April 21 | 1–2:30 PM
📍 VanDusen Botanical Garden
⚠️ In-person only
Register: https://t.co/zRhi3HuMwS
#HealthyAging #UBC

[Edwin S.H. Leong Centre for Healthy Aging @UBCAging]

🖤 NANAS x ELCHA Seminar
“Grandmothering While Black” with Dr. LaShawnDa Pittman @DrLSDPittman explores caregiving, resilience, and structural challenges faced by Black grandmothers.
📅 April 17 | 9:00–10:00 AM
💻 Virtual
Register: https://t.co/PbBHimprPD
#HealthyAging #NANAS

[Edwin S.H. Leong Centre for Healthy Aging @UBCAging]

🧬 Healthy Aging Seminar – Dr. Sheela Abraham
Explore how aging affects stem cells and disease risk, including cancer and chronic conditions.
📅 April 14 | 10:30–11:30 AM
📍 UBC + Zoom
Register:
https://t.co/GMwElftwf4
#HealthyAging #UBC