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Kyan Younes, MD

Kyan Younes, MD

Class of 2022
Fellowship Track

Current Role

Assistant Professor, Stanford Center for Memory Disorders, Department of Neurology, Stanford University School of Medicine

Education

Behavioral Neurology Fellowship: UCSF Dept of Neurology (2021) CA

Residency: University of Texas Health Science Center (2018) TX

Research Fellowship: Case Western Reserve University (2014) OH

Medical Education: University of Damascus, Faculty of Medicine (2013) Syria

Research Areas of Interest

Clinical trials, Neuroimaging, Alzheimer's disease, Frontotemporal dementia

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Duygu Tosun, PhD

Duygu Tosun, PhD

Class of 2022
Professionals Track

Current Role

Associate Professor in Residence of Radiology and Biomedical Imaging, University of California - San Francisco

Education

Bilkent University, B.Sc. on Electrical and Electronic Engineering, 1999

Johns Hopkins University, M.S.E. on Electrical and Computer Engineering, 2001

Johns Hopkins University, M.A. on Mathematics, 2003

Johns Hopkins University, Ph.D. on Electrical and Computer Engineering, 2005

Research Areas of Interest

Biomarker discovery; Clinical trials; Alzheimer's disease; Computational medicine; Data analytics; Multi-modality neuroimaging biomarkers; Neuropathology

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Joy Stradford, MS

Joy Stradford, MS

Class of 2022
Professionals Track

Personal Statement

Joy Stradford, M.S. is a clinical research coordinator at the University of California, San Diego Health (UCSD Health) Alzheimer's Disease Cooperative Study (ADCS). She manages two clinical trials examining the impact of healthy lifestyle modifications on brain health in older adults. Joy is interested in race disparities in Alzheimer's Disease and ultimately aspires to become a clinical neuropsychologist.

Current Role

Clinical Research Coordinator at the University of California, San Diego Health (UCSD Health) Alzheimer’s Disease Cooperative Study (ADCS)

Education

Howard University (Washington, DC) - B.S. in Psychology

University of Southern California (Los Angeles, CA) - M.S. in Neuroimaging & Informatics

Research Areas of Interest

Race Disparities, Health Disparities, Alzheimer's Disease, Aging, Neuroimaging, Neuropsychology

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Meghan Riddle, MD

Meghan Riddle, MD

Class of 2022
Professionals Track

Personal Statement

I am a geriatric psychiatrist who joined the Memory and Aging Program as the Associate Director and faculty at Brown University in 2021. I am currently serving as the PI for multiple research trials within the Memory and Aging Program and continue to see patients clinically with a focus on neuropsychiatric symptoms in dementia.

Current Role

Associate Director of the Memory & Aging Program at Butler Hospital; Associate Professor, Warren Alpert Medical School at Brown University

Education

I completed my residency and geriatric psychiatry fellowship training at Vanderbilt University and received my medical degree from the University of Texas Health Science Center. I completed the Executive Healthcare Leadership Program at the University of Kentucky.

Research Areas of Interest

Alzheimer's disease, late-life mood disorders, neuropsychiatric symptoms in dementia

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Joshua L. Keller, PhD

Joshua L. Keller, PhD

Class of 2022
Fellowship Track

Personal Statement

Dr. Joshua Keller is currently applying his previous experiences and training of measuring vascular function and developing experiments focused on resistance training outcome variables to the application of discovering efficacious interventions capable of delaying, or perhaps even preventing, the onset of neurogenerative conditions such as Alzheimer's Disease, especially in midlife, minority populations. He is addressing this ambitious aim with a high-impact, multidisciplinary team of experts across his university system, which is located in the Gulf Coast Region and is composed of richly diverse community members who are in dire need of interventions related to preventing ADRD through improvement of various health disparities such as vascular function.

Current Role

Assistant Professor of Exercise Science

Education

University of Cincinnati, BS

University of Dayton, MS

University of Nebraska-Lincoln, PhD

Research Areas of Interest

Vascular Function; Exercise; Resistance Training; Heath Disparities; Alzheimer's Disease; Cognition; Skeletal Muscle Function

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Chrismary De La Cruz, BA

Chrismary De La Cruz, BA

Class of 2022
Professionals Track

Personal Statement

I am an Associate Professor of Neurology and a Clinical Neuropsychologist at the Medical University of South Carolina in beautiful Charleston, SC. I conduct translational research on aging/AD and get the most joy out of working with my team, collaborators, trainees, and mentees.

Current Role

Clinical Research Coordinator, ACTC Liaison

Education

Connecticut College, B.A.

Columbia University, Post Bacc

Research Areas of Interest

Pharmacology, neuropharmacology, neurodegenerative diseases, Alzheimer's Disease

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Emily Clark, DO

Emily Clark, DO

Class of 2022
Fellowship Track

Current Role

Assistant Professor of Psychiatry, University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry
Associate Director of the Alzheimer’s Disease Care, Research, and Education Program (AD-CARE), University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry

Education

Kansas City University, Doctor of Osteopathic Medicine

University of Rochester, Psychiatry Residency

University of Rochester, Psychiatry Residency

Research Areas of Interest

Alzheimer's Disease modifying agents, Neuropsychiatric symptoms of AD, Diversity Recruitment

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Andreana (Anya) Benitez, PhD

Andreana (Anya) Benitez, PhD

Class of 2022
Fellowship Track

Personal Statement

I am an Associate Professor of Neurology and a Clinical Neuropsychologist at the Medical University of South Carolina in beautiful Charleston, SC. I conduct translational research on aging/AD and get the most joy out of working with my team, collaborators, trainees, and mentees.

Current Role

Associate Professor, Neurology; Principal and Co-Investigator, NIH and other grants; Associate Director, TL1 Training Program

Education

PhD in Clinical Psychology (Kent State University)

Post-doctoral Fellowships in Aging/Alzheimer’s disease and Neuroimaging (UCLA and MUSC)

Research Areas of Interest

Cognitive aging, Alzheimer's disease, Mild Cognitive Impairment, diffusion MRI, biophysical modeling, white matter, myelin, Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation, cannabis

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