Matthew P. Janicki, Ph.D. is co-President of the US National Task Group on Intellectual Disabilities and Dementia Practices and a research associate professor at the University of Illinois Chicago. An internationally recognized expert, he has served on the US federal Advisory Council on Alzheimer’s Research, Care, and Services and as a policy fellow with the US National Institute on Aging and the US Senate. He has led multiple nationally and internationally funded studies on aging and dementia in adults with intellectual disabilities, including work for the World Health Organization. He was founding editor of the Journal of Policy and Practice in Intellectual Disabilities and is widely published on dementia, aging, and disability policy.
