Professor
School of Medicine and Public Health
Hometown: Mesa, AZ
I am a clinical neuropsychologist and neuroscientist focused on understanding age and AD-related changes in brain and cognition. I am particularly interested in disambiguating presymptomatic dementia-processes from aging and other age-related brain diseases using molecular imaging and fluid biomarkers in conjunction with cognition, and have developed a multi-faceted program of research in this regard. I lead the Wisconsin Registry for Alzheimer’s Prevention (WRAP) which is a cohort of 1,680 individuals enriched with people at risk for sporadic AD who enrolled in this observational study at midlife (mean age 54). In addition to WRAP I am also the Associate Director and Biomarker Core Leader in the Wisconsin Alzheimer’s Disease Research Center (ADRC) which supports a range of investigators from trainees to faculty. Our studies utilize and leverage the cores and resources of the center to efficiently accomplish high impact multi-disciplinary research. I also have national roles in AD and neuroscience research detailed below. I am an experienced NIH researcher having been funded by NIH awards continuously since 1997 and have over 286 publications.