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
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
- Director, UW ADRC Administration Core / Leader, UW ADRC Imaging Core
Alicia Adams
- Research Coordinator, ADRC Clinical Core
Madina Akhmedova
- Research Coordinator, ADRC
Cole Allick, PhD, MHA
- Assistant Professor in the Allen School for Global Health and IREACH, Washington State University
- Co-Investigator, UW ADRC Native Engagement and Partnership 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
Lynn Bekris, PhD
- Professor, Laboratory Medicine and Pathology, UW Medicine
- Lead, UW ADRC Biomarker Core
Thomas D. Bird, MD
- Professor Emeritus, UW Medicine, UW Department of Neurology
- Chief, UW Division of Neurogenetics
- Advisor, UW ADRC Administrative Core
Sonia K. Bishop
- Research Scientist, Outreach, Recruitment, and Engagement Core, ADRC
Elizabeth Blue, PhD
- Assistant Professor, UW Division of Medical Genetics
- ADRC Affiliate Member
Amanda Boyd, PhD
- Professor in the Elson S. Floyd College of Medicine / Co-Director of IREACH, Washington State Unversity
- Lead, UW ADRC Native Engagement and Partnership Core
Melanie A. Burke, PhD
- Clinical Research Manager, 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, CRCC
- 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
- Co-Investigator, UW ADRC Clinical Core
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, UW ADRC Outreach, Recruitment, & Engagement Core
Donald L. Elbert, PhD
- Associate Professor of Neurology, UW Medicine
- Co-Lead, UW ADRC Biomarker 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
Marissa Favet
- Research Coordinator, UW ADRC Clinical 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 Certified Clinical 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
- Professor of Medicine, UW Division of General Internal Medicine
- Primary Care Liaison, UW Medicine, UW Memory and Brain Wellness Center
- Co-Investigator, UW ADRC Outreach, Recruitment, and Education Core
Laura E. Gibbons, PhD
- Senior Research Scientist, UW General Internal Medicine
- Biostatistician, Data Management and Statistics Core, ADRC
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
- Lead, UW ADRC Research and Education Component
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, UW ADRC Administration Core / Lead, UW ADRC Clinical Core
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 Engagement and Partnership 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, UW ADRC Administrative Core/ Lead, UW ADRC Precision Neuropathology Core
Linda K. Ko, MPH, PhD
- Visiting Professor and Vice Chair for Research, Department of Family Medicine, University of Southern California
- Lead, UW ADRC Outreach, Recruitment, and Engagement Core
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 and Geriatric Medicine
- Associate Director for Research, Geriatric Research, Education and Clinical Center (GRECC), VA Puget Sound Health Care System
- Co-Lead, UW ADRC Research and Education Component
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 B. Larson, MD, MPH
- Affiliate Professor of Medicine, UW School of Medicine
- Advisor, UW ADRC Administrative Core
Caitlin Latimer, MD, PhD
- Assistant Professor, UW Department of Laboratory Medicine & Pathology
- Co-Lead, UW ADRC Precision Neuropathology Core
Robin Lawrence, ARNP
- Co-Lead, UW ADRC Clinical Core
- Research Nurse Practitioner, UW Department of Neurology
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 of Human Cell Types, Allen Institute for Brain Science
- Affiliate Professor, Department of Neurological Surgery, University of Washington
- Consultant, UW ADRC Precision Neuropathology Core
David Lewis, MD
- Director, HMC Nuclear Medicine
- Professor, Department of Radiology
- Contributor, Imaging Core, ADRC
Gail Li, MD, PhD
- Associate Professor, UW Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences
Nicole F. Liachko, PhD
- Acting Assistant Professor, UW Division of Gerontology & Geriatric Medicine
- Emerging Leader, UW ADRC Research Education Component
Katherine Isabel López
- Community Engagement Specialist, Outreach, Recruitment, and Engagement Core, ADRC
Christine Mac Donald, PhD
- Associate Professor, UW Department of Neurological Surgery, UW Medicine
- Co-Lead, UW ADRC Imaging Core
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
Varun Mehta
- Research Coordinator, UW ADRC Clinical Trials
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
Justin B. Miller, PhD, ABPP
- Professor of Neurology, UW / Director of the Rural Brain Health Initiative
- Co-Lead, UW ADRC Clinical Core
- Co-Investigator, UW ADRC Administrative Core
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
Lonnie Nelson, PhD
- Professor, Cancer Prevention Program, Fred Hutch Cancer Center
- Co-Investigator, UW ADRC Clinical Core
Nam Phuong Nguyen , PhD
- Operations Manager, Imaging & Biomarker Core and Rural Brain Health Initiative, 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
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
Magaly (Maggie) Ramirez, PhD
- Associate Professor, Health Systems and Population Health William L. Dowling Endowed Faculty Fellowship in Health Administration, UW Health Systems and Population Health
- Associate Director of the MHA and EMHA programs, UW Health Systems and Population Health
- Co-Investigator, UW ADRC Outreach, Education, and Recruitment Core
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
- Associate Professor, UW Department of Neurology
- Neuropsychologist, UW Medicine / Co-Leader, Project ECHO Dementia, UW Memory and Brain Wellness Center
- Co-Investigator, UW ADRC Clinical Core
Michael Rosenbloom, MD
- Associate Professor of Neurology, UW Medicine
- Director of UW MBWC Clinical Trials
- Co-Investigator, UW ADRC Clinical Core / Co-Investigator, UW ADRC Biomarker Core
Ananya Roy
- Research Coordinator, UW ADRC Imaging & Biomarker Core
Tatiana Sadak, PhD, PMHNP, ARNP
- Associate Professor, UW School of Nursing
- Geriatric Psychiatry Specialist, Psychiatric Wellness and Dementia Care LLC
Aimee Schantz, MEd
- Research Manager, Division of Neuropathology, BRaIN Lab, Keene Lab, UW
Emmaline Seth
- Clinical Trials Coordinator, 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, UW ADRC Data Management and Statistics Core
Jasman Sidhu
- Clinical Core Research Coordinator, UW 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
Astrid M. Suchy-Dicey, PhD
- Associate Professor, Director Clinical Neurosciences / Principal Investigator of the Brain Aging Study, Huntington Medical Research Institutes
- Co-Lead, UW ADRC Data Management & Statistics Core
Sarah Taylor
- Clinical Trials Coordinator, ADRC
Karen Torres, Psy. D, ABPP-CN
- Neuropsychologist, UW Medicine, UW Memory and Brain Wellness Center
- Co-Investigator, UW ADRC Outreach, Recruitment, and Engagement Core
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
- Public Information Specialist, ADRC, MBWC, The Memory Hub
- On-Site Collaborator, Memory Hub (Maude's Garden)
Ellen Wijsman, PhD
- Adjunct Professor, UW Genome Sciences
- Professor Emeritus, UW Division of Medical Genetics, Department of Medicine; and Department of Biostatistics
- Emeritus Lead, Data Management and Statistics Core, ADRC
Jessica Young, PhD
- Associate Professor, UW Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathology
- Institute for Stem Cell and Regenerative Medicine
- Co-Lead, UW ADRC Precision Neuropathology Core
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