Our Team
- Memory & Brain Wellness Clinic
- Project ECHO Dementia
- The Memory Hub
- Alzheimer’s Disease Research Center (ADRC)
- Adult Changes in Thought Study
- Therapeutic Pipeline Project
- Pacific Udall Center
- Collaborators
- Clinic Provider Alumni
Alzheimer’s Disease Research Center (ADRC)
The UW ADRC, established in 1985, is in its 33rd year of continuous funding by the National Institute on Aging (NIA). Our researchers conduct genetic and clinical research in neurodegenerative disease, guided by the ultimate goal of precision medicine treatments and improved clinical care. Please visit the UW ADRC website: uwadrc.org
Darwin Del Castillo
- Graduate Student, UW Department of Global Health
- ADRC Outreach, Recruitment & Engagement Core
Thomas J. Grabowski, MD
- Professor, Department of Radiology/Joint Professor, Department of Neurology, UW Medicine /Tim B. Engle Endowed Professorship for Brain Health Innovations
- Medical Director and Neurologist, UW MBWC/ Director, UW Integrated Brain Imaging Center
- PI/Leader, Imaging and Biomarker Core and Administration Core, ADRC
Alicia Adams
- Research Coordinator, ADRC Clinical Core
Kimberly Alonge, PhD
- Acting Instructor, UW Medicine
- 2021-2022 UW ADRC Development Project Leader: Brain glycan sulfation recoding in Alzheimer's disease
Douglas Barthold, PhD
- Research Assistant Professor, UW School of Pharmacy
- 2019-2020 UW ADRC Pilot Project Leader: Alzheimer’s disease related neuropathology among patients with medication treated type 2 diabetes in a community-based autopsy cohort
Thomas D. Bird, MD
- Professor Emeritus, UW Medicine, UW Department of Neurology
- Chief, UW Division of Neurogenetics
Sonia K. Bishop
- Research Scientist, Outreach, Recruitment, and Engagement Core, ADRC
Elizabeth Blue, PhD
- Assistant Professor, UW Division of Medical Genetics
- ADRC Affiliate Member
Dedra Buchwald, MD
- Professor, Elson S. Floyd College of Medicine, Washington State University
- Director, Partnerships for Native Health/ Director, Initiative for Research and Education to Advance Community Health (IREACH)
- Leader, Native Research and Resources Core, ADRC
Melanie A. Burke, PhD
- Clinical Research Manager, UW ADRC
Erik S. Carlson, MD, PhD
- Assistant Professor, UW Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences
- 2019-2020 ADRC Pilot Project Leader: Compensatory Cerebellar Circuits in Mild Cognitive Impairment and Alzheimer Disease
Izzy Anaya Carmona
- Student research volunteer
Evangeline Chang
- Research Coordinator, Clinical Trials, ADRC
Darla I. Chapman, DNP, ARNP
- Nurse Practitioner, Harborview Medical Center, MBWC Clinic
- Principal Investigator and Clinician, ADRC
Molly Chinn
- Research Program Manager, VISN Mental Illness Research, Education and Clinical Center (MIRECC), VA Puget Sound Health Care System
- Program Manager, ADRC Research and Education Component
Yeilim Cho, MD
- Advanced Fellow, Veterans Affairs VISN-20 Mental Illness Research Education and Clinical Center
- 2023-2024 ADRC Development Project Leader: Defining the relationship between obstructive sleep apnea and MRI measures of glymphatic dysfunction
Meredith Course, PhD
- 2020-2021 UW ADRC Development Project Leader: Novel Transcripts of PSEN1 and PSEN2 in Familial and Sporadic Alzheimer Disease
Paul Crane, MD, MPH
- Professor, UW Department of Medicine
- Adjunct Associate Professor, UW Department of Health Services
- Psychometrics Component Lead, Clinical Core, ADRC
Martin Darvas, PhD
- Acting Assistant Professor, UW Department of Pathology
- ADRC Affiliate Member
- ADRC 2017 Pilot Project Leader
Kimiko Domoto-Reilly, MD
- Associate Professor, UW Department of Neurology, Neurologist/ Faculty, UW Integrated Brain Imaging Center
- Co-Lead, Outreach, Recruitment, & Engagement Core, ADRC
- Co-Investigator, Clinical Core, ADRC
Gabrielle Edwards
- Research Coordinator, ADRC Clinical Core
Michelle Erickson, PhD
- Research Assistant Professor, UW Gerontology and Geriatric Medicine
- Research Biologist, VA Puget Sound Healthcare System
- ADRC 2018-2019 Pilot Project: Serum amyloid A as a liver-derived mediator of Alzheimer’s disease
Kristen Farris
- (she/her/hers)
- Research Coordinator, Division of Gerontology & Geriatric Medicine, UW Medicine
Gary L. Ferguson, ND
- Director, Outreach & Engagement, Institute for Research and Education to Advance Community Health, WSU
- Research Associate Professor, Institute for Research and Education to Advance Community Health, WSU
- Collaborator, ADRC Outreach, Recruitment, and Engagement Core
Robert Freishtat, MD, MPH
- Professor of Pediatrics, George Washington University School of Medicine and Health Sciences
- Professor of Emergency Medicine, George Washington University School of Medicine and Health Sciences
- ADRC 2018-2019 Pilot Project: Neurodegeneration by adipocyte-derived exosomes in dementia
Chris Gallagher
- (he/him)
- Senior Research Coordinator, Clinical Trials, ADRC
Jeanne Gallée, Ph.D., CCC-SLP
- Co-Investigator, ADRC Clinical Core
- Postdoctoral Scholar, Center for Psychometric Analyses of Aging and Neurodegeneration, UW Medicine.
Barak Gaster, MD
- Primary Care Liaison
- Professor of Medicine, UW Division of General Internal Medicine
- Co-Investigator, Outreach, Recruitment, and Education Core, ADRC
Laura E. Gibbons, PhD
- Senior Research Scientist, UW General Internal Medicine
- Biostatistician, Data Management and Statistics Core, ADRC
Angela I. Gomez
- (she/her/hers)
- Research Coordinator, ADRC Clinical Core
Shelly L. Gray, DPharm
- Professor, UW Department of Pharmacy, Shirley and Herb Bridge Endowed Professorship for Women in Pharmacy
- Director, Plein Center for Geriatric Pharmacy Research, Education and Outreach School of Pharmacy
- ADRC Affiliate Member
Angela Hanson, MD
- (she, her, hers)
- Assistant Professor, UW Medicine, Division of Gerontology and Geriatric Medicine/ Geriatrician, MBWC
- Co-Investigator, ADRC Clinical Core/ 2023-2024 ADRC Development Project Leader: Heterogeneity of Brain Lipoprotein Particles in Alzheimer’s Disease
Jeffrey Iliff, PhD
- Professor, UW Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences/ UW Department of Neurology
- Associate Director for Research, VISN 20 Mental Illness Research, Education, and Clinical Center (MIRECC), VA Puget Sound Health Care System
- Co-Leader, Research and Education Component, ADRC
Hesam Jahanian, PhD
- Assistant Professor, UW Radiology, UW Medicine
- Faculty, Integrated Brain Imaging Center (IBIC)
- ADRC 2018-2019 Pilot Project: Development of Ultrafast Resting-State fMRI as a Biomarker for Alzheimer’s Disease
Deidre Jansson, MSc, PhD
- Senior Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, UW School of Medicine
- 2020-2021 UW ADRC Development Project Leader: Defining the cellular and transcriptomics architecture of the choroid plexus in Alzheimer's disease: a pilot study
Suman Jayadev, MD
- Associate Professor, UW Department of Neurology
- Director and Neurogeneticist, UW Neurogenetics Clinic/ UW Huntington Disease Center of Excellence
- Associate Director and Clinical Core Leader, ADRC
Patrik Johansson, MD, MPH
- Director of Practice Based Research Network, Partnerships for Native Health, WSU
- Associate Professor, Institute for Research and Education to Advance Community Health, WSU
- Co-Leader, Native Research and Resource Core, ADRC
Breanna Jones
- Research Study Supervisor, ADRC Native Research and Resource Core/Outreach and Engagement Core, Institute for Research and Education to Advance Community Health, Washington State University
C. Dirk Keene, MD, PhD
- Professor, Department of Lab Medicine & Pathology, Division of Neuropathology, UW School of Medicine
- Director of Neuropathology Fellowship Program
- Associate Director and Precision Neuropathology Core Leader, ADRC
Theresa Kehne
- (she/her/hers)
- Research Coordinator, ADRC
Linda K. Ko, MPH, PhD
- Professor and Associate Chair, Health Systems and Population Health, UW School of Public Health
- Adjunct Professor, Family Medicine
- Lead, Outreach, Recruitment, and Engagement Core, ADRC
Olena Korvatska, PhD
- Acting Assistant Professor, UW Department of Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences
- ADRC, Affiliate Member
Brian C. Kraemer, PhD
- Professor of Medicine, UW Division of Gerontology & Geriatric Medicine
- Associate Director for Research, Geriatric Research, Education and Clinical Center (GRECC), VA Puget Sound Health Care System
- Co-Leader, Research and Education Component, ADRC
Walter A. Kukull, PhD
- Professor, UW Department of Epidemiology
- Director, NACC, National Alzheimer's Coordinating Center
Mehmet Kurt
- Assistant Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering, UW
- Project: Investigating in-vivo brain mechanical properties as Alzheimer’s Disease biomarkers through multifrequency MR Elastography
Eric Larson, MD, MPH
- Senior Investigator, Kaiser Permanente Washington Health Research Institute
- Clinical Professor, UW School of Public Health, Health Services
- Associate Director, Administrative Core, ADRC
Caitlin Latimer, MD, PhD
- Assistant Professor, UW Department of Laboratory Medicine & Pathology
- Co-Leader, Precision Neuropathology Core, ADRC
Robin Lawrence, ARNP
- Physician's Assistant/Nurse Practitioner, UW ADRC
Tung Le
- Senior Computing Specialist, UW Division of Medical Genetics and Biostatistics
- Database Manager, ADRC
Elisa Tan Lee, PhD
- Research Professor of Biostatistics and Epidemiology, University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center
- Director, Center for American Indian Health Research, University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center
- ADRC, Co-Investigator, Satellite Core
Ed Lein, PhD
- Senior Investigator, Allen Institute for Brain Science
- Affiliate Professor, Department of Neurological Surgery, University of Washington
- Contributor, Precision Neuropathology Core, ADRC
David Lewis, MD
- Director, HMC Nuclear Medicine
- Professor, Department of Radiology
- Contributor, Imaging and Biomarker Core, ADRC
Gail Li, MD, PhD
- Associate Professor, UW Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences
Katherine Isabel López
- Community Engagement Specialist, Outreach, Recruitment, and Engagement Core, ADRC
Christine Mac Donald, PhD
- Associate Professor, UW Department of Neurological Surgery.
- Co-Leader, Imaging and Biomarker Core, ADRC
Lara Mangravite, PhD
- President, Sage Bionetworks
- Contributor, Imaging and Biomarker Core, ADRC
Desiree Marshall, MD, FCAP
- Acting Assistant Professor in Anatomic Pathology and Neuropathology, UW Department of Pathology
- ADRC, Pacific Northwest Brain Donor Network
Judit Marsillach, PhD
- Acting Assistant Professor of Medicine, UW Division of Medical Genetics
- 2019-2020 ADRC Pilot Project Leader: Paraoxonase-1 as an early biomarker of Alzheimer’s Disease
Jessica McDougall
- Research Coordinator, ADRC
Erica Melief, PhD
- Research Scientist, Keene Lab, UW
- ADRC Neuropathology Core
- ADRC 2016-17 Pilot Project Leader
Alexander R. Mendenhall, PhD
- Assistant Professor, UW Department of Pathology
- ADRC 2017 Seed Project Leader
Sean David Mooney, PhD
- Professor, Biomedical Informatics and Medical Education
- Chief Research Information Officer (CRIO) of UW Medicine Principal Investigator
- Co-Investigator, Imaging and Biomarker Core, ADRC
Richard S. Morrison, PhD
- Professor, Neurological Surgery, UW Medicine
- ADRC 2018-2019 Pilot Project: Epigenetic role for histone deacetylase 2 in Alzheimer’s disease pathogenesis
Shubhabrata (Joey) Mukherjee, PhD, MS
- Research Associate Professor, UW Department of Medicine, Division of General Internal Medicine
- ADRC Affiliate Member
Clemma J. Muller, PhD, MS
- Assistant Research Professor, College of Nursing, WSU
- Co-Investigator, Native Research and Resource Core, ADRC
Annika Noreen, PhD, PMP
- Program Manager, ADRC
- Research Navigator: ADRC Research and Education Component
Belle Park
- Graduate Student, UW School of Social Work
- ADRC Outreach, Recruitment & Engagement Core
Kelley Pascoe, MSW, MPH
- Graduate Research Assistant, Outreach, Recruitment, and Engagement Core, ADRC
Elaine Peskind, MD
- Friends of Alzheimer's Research Professor of Psychiatry, UW Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences
- Co-Director, Psychiatry, Mental Illness Research, Education, and Clinical Center (MIRECC), VA Puget Sound Health Care System
- Member, Advisory Committee, Research and Education Component, ADRC
Katherine Prater, PhD
- Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Jayadev Lab, Department of Neurology, UW Medicine
- 2021-2022 UW ADRC Development Project Leader: Understanding microglia responses in resilience, cognitive decline, and neuropathological proteopathy
Daniel Promislow, PhD
- Professor, UW Department of Pathology, UW Department of Biology
- Director, Canine Longevity Consortium
- ADRC Affiliate Member
Swati Rane Levendovszky , PhD
- Associate Professor, UW Department of Radiology
- Director, Diagnostic Imaging Sciences Center
- Co-Investigator, Imaging and Biomarker Core, ADRC
Elizabeth Rhea, PhD
- Research Biologist, VA Puget Sound Health Care System
- Research Assistant Professor, Division of Gerontology, UW
- 2020-2021 UW ADRC Development Project Leader: Soluble insulin receptor levels in Alzheimer's disease
Kristoffer Rhoads, PhD
- (he/him/his)
- Associate Professor, UW Department of Neurology
- Neuropsychologist, UW Medicine/ Clinical Core, ADRC/ Co-Leader, Project ECHO Dementia
Janet Rojina , MPH
- she/her/hers
- Research Coordinator, UW ADRC ORE Core
Michael Rosenbloom, MD
- Associate Professor of Neurology, UW Medicine
- Director of Clinical Trials, MBWC
- Co-Investigator, Clinical Core, ADRC
Tatiana Sadak, PhD, PMHNP, ARNP
- Associate Professor, UW School of Nursing
- Geriatric Psychiatry Specialist, Psychiatric Wellness and Dementia Care LLC
Rhea Sanghavi
- Research Coordinator, Clinical Core, UW ADRC
Aimee Schantz, MEd
- Research Manager, Division of Neuropathology, BRaIN Lab, Keene Lab, UW
Emmaline Seth
- Research Coordinator, Clinical Trials, UW ADRC
Grace Shepherd
- Research Study Assistant, ADRC Outreach, Recruitment, and Education Core
- Research Study Assistant, Institute for Research and Education to Advance Community Health, Washington State University
Ali Shojaie, PhD, MS
- Professor of Biostatistics, UW
- Adjunct Professor of Statistics, UW
- Lead, Data Management and Statistics Core, ADRC
Maria Sibaja
- Research Coordinator, Imaging and Biomarker Core, ADRC
Andrew B Stergachis, MD, PhD, FACMG
- Assistant Professor of Medicine and Genome Sciences, Division of Medical Genetics, UW
- 2023-2024 ADRC Development Project Leader: Resolving Alzheimer’s disease risk loci using phased long-read chromatin maps
Robin Stillwell, MHIHIM
- Program Operations Specialist, ADRC
Molly Stillwell
- Research Coordinator, Clinical Core, ADRC
Astrid M. Suchy-Dicey, PhD
- Assistant Professor, Elson S Floyd College of Medicine, Initiative for Research and Education to Advance Community Health (IREACH), Washington State University
- Co-Lead, Data Management & Statistics Core, UW ADRC
- 2021-2022 UW ADRC Development Project Leader: Plasma phosphorylated tau protein and Alzheimer's disease in American Indians: The Strong Heart Study
Garth Terry, MD, PhD
- Acting Assistant Professor, UW Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences
- Co-Investigator, Imaging and Biomarker Core, ADRC
Karen Torres, Psy. D, ABPP-CN
- Neuropsychologist, UW Medicine, UW Memory and Brain Wellness Center
Debby Tsuang, MD
- Professor, Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences/ Adjunct Professor, Epidemiology
- Director, GRECC, VISN-20 Geriatric Research, Education, and Clinical Center
- Psychiatrist, Clinical Core, ADRC
Jessica Tulloch, PhD
- Research Biologist, Veterans Affairs Puget Sound Healthcare System
- ADRC 2016 Pilot Project Leader
Tomas Vaisar, PhD
- Research Professor and Director, Proteomics and Bioinformatics Core, Diabetes Research Center, Division of Metabolism, Endocrinology and Nutrition, Department of Internal Medicine, UW School of Medicine
- 2023-2024 ADRC Development Project Leader: Heterogeneity of Brain Lipoprotein Particles in Alzheimer’s Disease
Paul Valdmanis, PhD
- Assistant Professor, Medical Genetics, UW Medicine
- 2018-2019 Pilot Project: Contribution of human-specific repeat expansions to Alzheimer’s Disease
Yuliang Wang, PhD
- Research Assistant Professor, Paul Allen School of Computer Science and Engineering/Institute for Stem Cell & Regenerative Medicine, University of Washington
- 2021-2022 UW ADRC Development Project Leader: Using metabolic network modeling to improve the maturity of iPSC-derived microglia for Alzheimer's disease
Genevieve Wanucha, MS
- (she/her)
- Public Information Specialist, ADRC, MBWC, The Memory Hub
- On-Site Collaborator, Memory Hub (Maude's Garden)
Ellen Wijsman, PhD
- Professor, UW Division of Medical Genetics, Department of Medicine; and Department of Biostatistics
- Emeritus Lead, Data Management and Statistics Core, ADRC
Jessica Young, PhD
- Assistant Professor, UW Department of Pathology
- Institute for Stem Cell and Regenerative Medicine
- Leader, Stem Cell Component, Precision Neuropathology Core, ADRC
Oleg Zaslavsky, PhD, MHA, RN
- Assistant Professor, Biobehavioral Nursing and Health Informatics Department, UW School of Nursing
- Associate Director of Research, de Tornyay Center for Healthy Aging
Marisa Zimmerman
- Research Coordinator, UW ADRC Clinical Core