Astrid M. Suchy-Dicey, PhD

Astrid M. Suchy-Dicey, PhD, is a neuroepidemiologist with special interest in health disparities affecting Indigenous, minoritized, and rural Peoples. Much of her work focuses on the evaluation of presentation and risk for vascular and Alzheimer’s dementias, but with additional consideration of cognitive aging from a strengths-based perspective. She leads multiple programs focused on cultural factors, identity, social support, and bilingualism in cognitive resilience; stress and maladaptive factors in association with cognitive aging and dementia; and life-course of neuropathologic and biomarker changes in American Indians. She has deep expertise in community-based participatory frameworks and also leads large, multi-institutional scientific collaborations. She leads the Strong Heart Study Neurology working group, supports the Neurocognitive working group for the Collaborative Cohort of Cohorts for COVID-19 Research (C4R) study, and serves as MPI for the renewal CHARGE Cross-Cohort Consortium. She has served on multiple ethical and scientific review boards, including Institutional Review Board and NIH Study Section. She has post-graduate training in neurobiology, neuropsychology, machine learning, and public health genetics. (Source: BU)

At the UW ADRC, Dr. Suchy-Dicey is Co-Lead of the Data Management & Statistics Core and the 2021-2022 UW ADRC Development Project Leader of the project: Plasma phosphorylated tau protein and Alzheimer's disease in American Indians: The Strong Heart Study.

Research Interests

Epidemiology of chronic diseases related to aging; Complex systems of balance in human physiology; Health disparities in U.S. minority populations.