ESPO & BUTLER-WILLIAMS SYMPOSIUM: CAREER DEVELOPMENT TO PROMOTE INNOVATIONS FROM BENCH TO BEDSIDE - SESSION 2555 - featured talks

Sep 28, 2026

Innovation in Aging (2025, Vol. 9, No. S2 325) introduces Session 2555 (Symposium) with ESPO & Butler-Williams Scholars Program and GSA ESPO section united to advance career development, leadership, and translational innovation. The theme emphasizes addressing motivators, barriers, and facilitators that limit recruiting older adults and those with multiple chronic conditions into clinical research. Featured talks cover qualitative evidence on patient- and healthcare-level recruitment factors, caregiving experiences affecting dementia trial participation, and a primary care champion intervention engaging family medicine providers with a dementia screening toolkit. The symposium frames bench-to-bedside progress by translating basic aging biology, including mitochondrial proteostatic mechanisms, into treatments supporting healthspan.

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Session 2555 (Symposium)

ESPO & Butler-Williams theme: bench to bedside

Recruitment barriers and facilitators for older adults

Caregiver-targeted dementia trial participation

Primary care champion intervention and dementia screening toolkit

Translating aging biology to treatments and healthspan

Innovation in Aging, 2025, Vol. 9, No. S2 325 trials. This suggests that the current treatments are not fully generalizable to aging populations, and addressing this scientific gap is urgently warranted. GSA’s early career professionals and alumni of the prestigious NIA Butler-Williams Scholars Program will address these gaps. In a qualitative study, Dr. Maira Castañeda-Avila will present patient-level and healthcare-level barriers and facilitators in recruiting older adults and individuals with multiple chronic conditions. Dr. Miriam J Rodriguez will extrapolate factors contributing to dementia caregiving experiences among informal caregivers and their impact on clinical trial participation, specifically in a caregiver-targeted intervention. Dr. Mirella Díaz-Santos will present the findings of a primary care champion intervention focused on engaging family medicine providers to recruit older adults and administer a dementia screening toolkit. The featured talks will engage us in expanding our collective innovations in recruitment to advance patient-centered treatments for aging populations. Dr. Benjamin F Miller, PhD will discuss his career journey in translating basic biology of aging into treatments to increase human healthspan, with a focus on proteostatic mechanisms in mitochondria to increase stress resistance for slowing aging. SESSION 2555 (SYMPOSIUM) Abstract citation ID: igaf122.1096 ESPO & BUTLER-WILLIAMS SYMPOSIUM: CAREER DEVELOPMENT TO PROMOTE INNOVATIONS FROM BENCH TO BEDSIDE Chair: Mirella Diaz-Santos Co-Chair: Brianna Morgan Discussant: Ramesh Vemuri The NIA’s Butler-Williams Scholars Program and GSA’s ESPO section are united in providing career development opportunities to promote leadership and innovation. This year’s theme challenges our established and emerging scholars to embrace innovations addressing motivators, barriers, and facilitators to translational research with older adults from bench to bedside. Despite representing about 17% of the U.S. population, older adults remain under-represented in most clinical research and

FAQs

What is the main theme of the ESPO & Butler-Williams Symposium in Session 2555?

The theme focuses on career development to promote translational research innovations from bench to bedside, specifically by addressing motivators, barriers, and facilitators for recruiting older adults into clinical studies.

Why are older adults highlighted as under-represented in clinical research?

The text states that, despite being about 17% of the U.S. population, older adults are under-represented in most clinical research, indicating treatments are not fully generalizable and scientific gaps need urgent attention.

What types of interventions and study approaches are featured?

The symposium includes qualitative work on recruitment barriers and facilitators, analysis of caregiver experiences impacting dementia trial participation, and a primary care champion intervention that engages family medicine providers using a dementia screening toolkit.

Sep 28, 2026

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