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Matthew Janicki, PhD Associate Director for Technical Assistance, RRTCADD Phone 1 207 236 2715 (Maine) Fax 1 207 236 8070 Email mjanicki@uic.edu Bio Matthew P. Janicki, is research associate professor of human development at the Institute of Disability and Human Development at the University of Illinois at Chicago, and serves as director for technical assistance for the Rehabilitation Research and Training Center in Aging with Developmental Disabilities at the University. Formerly, he was director for aging and special populations for the New York State Office of Mental Retardation and Developmental Disabilities in Albany. Dr. Janicki was a Joseph P. Kennedy, Jr. Foundation's Public Policy Leadership Fellow, spending a sabbatical year at the National Institute on Aging and the United States Senate. He is the author/editor of numerous books and articles in the area of aging, dementia, public policy, and rehabilitation with regard to people with intellectual and developmental disabilities and has lectured and provided training in aging and intellectual disabilities around the world. He is a fellow of the American Psychological Association and the Gerontological Society of America. Dr. Janicki served as the chair of the United States International Council on Mental Retardation and Developmental Disabilities and as the founding chair of the Aging Special Interest Research Group for IASSID. Currently he serves as of the executive officers of the International Association for the Scientific Study of Intellectual Disabilities (IASSID) and is the editor-in-chief of IASSID's Journal of Policy and Practice in Intellectual Disabilities. Research Interests His research interests include epidemiology and demographics, Alzheimer's disease and people with intellectual disabilities, community dementia support services, and aging correlates in people with various etiologies of intellectual disability and associated conditions.

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