Dorina Cadar,

JAD profile

Affiliation(s): 

University College London

Lab URL: 

https://iris.ucl.ac.uk/iris/browse/profile?upi=DCADA81

ORCID URL: 

https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1398-5841

Areas of Interest: 

Aging and Dementia

Biography & Research: 

Dorina Cadar focuses on various determinants of mental capabilities across the life course and specifically on examining the risk factors associated with cognitive decline and dementia. She is particularly interested in the inter-individual variability of cognitive aging and in understanding why some individuals experience faster rates of cognitive decline compared to others. Other research areas of interest are healthy aging, mental health, and well-being, cardiometabolic health, lifestyle behaviors, the mechanisms involved in behavior change, personalized medicine and methodology. Dorina Cadar is a Research Associate Fellow, working with Professor Andrew Steptoe and an international multidisciplinary team on an NIA-funded project aiming to develop a cognitive substudy nested within the English Longitudinal Study of Ageing (ELSA), with the scope of ascertaining dementia and cognitive impairment, using protocols harmonised with the US Health and Retirement Study (HRS). Previously, Dorina Cadar worked on a dementia project funded by the Alzheimer’s Society, where she investigated the effect of education on within-person trajectories of cognitive decline in global and specific cognitive abilities induced by aging, dementia, and proximity to death in several longitudinal studies of aging. Dorina Cadar is a Past-Chair of the ECR Subcommittee of the Society of Social Medicine (2015) and the founder of the Public Engagement Project “Use it, don’t lose it!” She graduated with a BSc (Hons) in Psychology from University of London (2008), an MSc in Clinical Neuroscience from Institute of Psychiatry, King’s College London (2009) and a Ph.D. in Epidemiology and Public Health from University College London (2013). Dorina was also awarded a Postgraduate Certificate (Distinction) in Cognitive Ageing Research Methods from College of Medicine and Veterinary Medicine, University of Edinburgh (2013).