UCLA - Semel Institute
Los Angeles, United States
Dr. Van Dyk is a neuropsychologist and Health Sciences Assistant Clinical Professor in Psychiatry at UCLA’s Semel Institute, Div. Geriatric Psychiatry. Dr. Van Dyk earned her PhD in Clinical Psychology, with a specialty in neuropsychology from the City University of New York – Graduate Center, with both predoctoral internship and post-doctoral training in geropsychology/neuropsychology at UCLA. Her research and clinical interests began in the field of aging and dementia and then pivoted toward focusing predominantly on cognitive health in adult non-CNS cancer survivorship as well as adults with brain tumors. After clinical training, she was awarded a post-doctoral fellowship grant by the American Cancer Society to study cognition in cancer survivorship in the Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center. Dr. Van Dyk received a K08 Career Development Award from the National Cancer Institute to develop her research program at UCLA in brain health in cancer survivorship incorporating neuroimaging and neuropsychological outcomes. Dr. Van Dyk's lab includes non-CNS cancer and primary brain tumor survivorship and quality of life issues, specifically related to cognitive function, and she has begun piloting cogntiive support interventions in this population.