Biography & Research:
I have 20 years of experience leading a program of NIH-funded research on women’s cognitive aging and dementia, with a particular focus on the menopause and sex steroid hormones. I use multiple methods including clinical trials of hormone therapy and other non-hormonal interventions for midlife women, cohort studies of the natural history of cognition and brain function across the menopausal transition, and neuroimaging studies of sex differences in Alzheimer’s disease. I am Immediate-Past President of the North American Menopause Society (NAMS) and Network Chair of the Society for Women’s Health Research Interdisciplinary Network on Alzheimer’s Disease.