Postdoctoral Fellow
University of California, San Francisco
San Francisco, California, United States
I am a social epidemiologist and am overall interested in social determinants of cognitive aging. Under this research area, I am involved in three lines of research:
The first line of research is on how psychosocial stressors and resilience across the lifecourse, from early childhood experiences to elder abuse, influence cognitive aging, including their cumulative effects and the biobehavioral mechanisms that underlie these relationships.
The second line of my research involves methods that deal with issues in longitudinal cognitive aging research, with a specific focus on practice effects (i.e., improvements in cognitive test performance due to repeated exposures to the same materials).
The third line of research focuses on understanding disparities in the impact of ADRD on older adults. Social factors influence both who develops ADRD and vulnerability of those individuals to other threats to their health and well-being. This interest motivated some recent projects on understanding how the COVID-19 pandemic, directly and indirectly, affects individuals from different racial and ethnic backgrounds who live with Alzheimer's disease and dementia (ADRD).
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Saturday, November 5, 2022
5:30 PM – 7:00 PM ET
Saturday, November 5, 2022
5:30 PM – 7:00 PM ET