Learn more about our study aims, our team, and the story behind our branding element.
Our RESEARCHERS
MEET THE LSAHA TEAM
We are a multi-disciplinary team of investigators from three universities who are working together on LSAHA to achieve its goals.
iNVESTIGATORS AT gEORGETOWN uNIVERSITY
Carlos Mendes de Leon, Ph.D
Overall Principal Investigator
Investigators at American University of Beirut
Monique Chaaya, Dr.PH
Principal Investigator
Sawsan Abdulrahim, Ph.D
Co-Principal Investigator
Stephen McCall, Ph.D
Co-Investigator
Abla Sibai, Ph.D
Co-Principal Investigator
Martine ElBejjani, Ph.D
Co-Investigator
Nazem Bassil, M.D
Co-Investigator
Investigators at the University of Michigan
Frederick G Conrad, Ph.D
Principal Investigator
Investigators at the University of South Carolina
Hala Ghattas, Ph.D
Principal Investigator
Project Staff
Raphael Nishimura, Ph.D
Sampling Expert
Che Henry Ngwa
PhD Candidate
Alexandra Abi Nassif
Project Coordinator
Mayssan Kabalan
PhD Candidate
Ghina Sabeh Aayoun
Science Communication Consultant
Aya El Sammak
Field Coordinator
Tanya El Khoury
PhD Candidate
Story Behind the Branding Element
To create the study logo, or “branding element”, the LSAHA team announced a design competition, advertised to students at the American University of Beirut and the Lebanese University. A jury conducted an in-depth assessment of the designs to announce the winning one. Consequently, the branding element created by two AUB students has now been adopted on our website and throughout all aspects of the study.
Given that LSAHA is a study on aging and health among older adults, the winning design examines the effects of aging and translates it in an abstract way. Therefore, LSAHA is a typographic branding element that is a work of missing lines to convey the idea of loss of memory – the main symptom of Alzheimer’s disease – for those older adults with ADRD.
Lebanon Study on Aging and HeAlth
Faculty of Health Sciences
American University of Beirut
P.O.Box 11-0236 F15 Riad El-Solh, Beirut 1107 2020 Lebanon
