Raina
@Rainacroff
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Neuroanthropologist, author passionate about blending history and community health in aging research. Opinions are my own.
Portland, OR
Joined July 2018
Honored to be the senior awardee for the AAN Healthcare Equity Research Award! & Congrats @GLDunietz & Mathula Thangarajh! Thankyou SHARP participant community💐, our awesome Layton Center team, fab mentors, & AAN Diversity Leadership Program (2020!). #AANAM #AAN2024 #ohsubrain
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Dr. Kalisha Bonds Johnson delivered knowledge today! Reporting less caregiver burden DOESN'T mean that they experience less burden, as qualitative data shows. And we must put ppt culture in the forefront of design, not tailoring interventions to them as an after thought! #AAIC23.
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Come check out poster 653 mood and social reminiscence while walking in gentrifying neighborhoods & 658 care partner burden and emergency service use #AAIC23
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OHSU Team Layton Center Steppers! We raised 137% of our goal for the Walk to End Alzheimer's👏 Thank you everyone who donated their time, money, and team spirit to the cause!! 💜 @OHSUBrain @alzorswwa @ALZWalkToEndAlz
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And we're off! Mansour Maybe & Charles Fennell of Team OHSU Layton Center Steppers! @OHSUBrain @alzorswwa @ALZWalkToEndAlz
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With Dr. Amala Soumyanath at the Walk to End Alzheimer's, showcasing Alzheimer's Association funded research! It's a full crowd out here this early morning! @OHSUBrain @alzassociation @alzorswwa
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RT @AANMember: The AAN is offering two new $2,000 grants to help fund projects that foster IDEAS within academic #neurology departments or….
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This. All this. Anyone else feeling a delayed fatigue response to the past 18 months? A highly recommended listen:
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In talking to other Black women professionals, Ellen Bailey, Vice President for Diversity and Culture at Harvard Business Publishing, realized that her feelings of stress and fatigue over the past 18...
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Excited to now officially work alongside @AllisonLindauer on the Oregon Layton Center ADC ORE Core. Ready for some inspo from ORE Core Fall meeting from @CGster and @CeriseElliott #alzheimers_NIH.
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#BIGGWEEK Community Engagement panel was on point! Ms.Wright:Keys to recruitment--Approach & Compassion. Ms.Young:I made a career out of loving my grandparents. Ms.Cooper on C-19vax: It's a boots on-the-ground effort. Can't sit back and think it needs to be told by someone else.
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#BIGGWeek2021 Community Engagement panel just started and Ms. Wright is already inspiring: "Our passion and our relationships surpass all our titles." Yes! Thank you! @BlackInGeron.
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On gentrification, aging and the Black experience. A pleasure working w coauthors Dr. Barnes & Dr. Hedmann! #BIGGWeek2021 @Dr_Mo_1111 @beyoung40
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Gentrification in the Pacific Northwest echoes national trends, uprooting critical close-proximity social networks and deteriorating motivation to engage in neighborhood-based social activity....
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BIGG inspo! Amazing panel w Drs. Manly, Baker, Thorpe, & Epps! #BIGGWeek2021 "Failure to account for historical context can lead to egregious conclusions"-Thorpe. "Don't place conceptual models based on white studies onto Black ppl"-Manly "Justify WHY comparing to whites"-Baker.
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Hello #BIGGRollCall 👋🏽I'm Dr. Raina Croff. I'm a medical anthropologist. My focus is on culturally celebratory interventions that preserve brain health and oral history amidst gentrification AND that create space for emerging Black scholars. #BIGGWeek2021
sharpwalkingstudy.org
The SHARP study combines walking, social engagement, and reminiscence to help promote brain health in older African-Americans
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To all the chatter about non-white proud boys as proof that they're not white supremacists: you don't have to be white to be a white supremacist, you just have to believe that the current state of white supremacy is worth defending.
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