Summit 2025
Save the date! Summit 2025 will be hosted as a one-day, online event: Thursday, November 20th.
As planning progresses, more details will be shared on this page.
If you have questions about Summit 2025, please contact radar.summit@usask.ca
2025 Keynote Presenter
Kristen Jacklin, PhD, is a Professor in the Department of Family Medicine and Biobehavioral Health and the Director of the Memory Keepers Medical Discovery Team – Health Equity (MK-MDT) at the University of Minnesota Medical School, Duluth Campus. Dr. Jacklin is a medical anthropologist with over 25 years of experience conducting community-based participatory research (CBPR) with Indigenous and rural communities.
Her research pursues scientific questions that support health equity and employ methods that disrupt traditional power relations. Her work in Alzheimer’s disease and related dementias has incorporated translational aspects such as cultural adaptations of clinical tools for use with Indigenous populations and translating ethnographic data into culturally appropriate health promotion materials. Her methodological expertise includes CBPR, Indigenous methodologies, two-eyed seeing, qualitative and ethnographic methods, and working with highly integrative research designs.
Dr. Jacklin currently leads three large multi-site studies on dementia in Indigenous and rural populations: The American Indigenous Cognitive Assessment Project (NIA R01AG074231), which seeks to create the first cognitive assessment designed for Indigenous populations in the US; Indigenous Cultural Understandings of Alzheimer’s Disease and Related Dementias-Research and Engagement (NIH-NIA R01AG062307) a multi-site community-based ethnographic research concerning Indigenous experiences and knowledge of dementia; and Community Engaged Rural Dementia Research (UMN AIRP) to develop a robust program of dementia research with rural populations in Minnesota.
Dr. Jacklin is the founder and current co-chair of the International Indigenous Dementia Research Network (IIDRN).
Explore a complete list of her publications.
"The summit is an interdisciplinary get-together of clinicians and researchers devoted to improving care of people with dementia and their families in Saskatchewan. It’s an excellent opportunity for physicians who see patients with dementia to learn more about dementia care and to share their knowledge with colleagues." -- Dr. Andrew Kirk, Neurologist and RaDAR Team member.
"RaDAR has been important to me as rural based research on issues which matter to us all but don’t need big Pharma otherwise would not happen. I hope we all grow old, a healthy old if possible but a comfortable old at least. It may be the secrets of ageing this way are in Fife, Dorset or Mount Isa but, perhaps, in our own waiting rooms or, horrible thought, waiting lists." -- Dr. John Rye, retired Sasktachewan family physician and attendee of Summit meetings.