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Valory Pavlik, Ph.D.
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Affiliation(s):
Baylor College of Medicine
Areas of Interest:
Alzheimer's disease, cognitive epidemiology
Biography & Research:
Dr. Pavlik received her Ph.D. in epidemiology from the University of Texas Health Sciences Center--Houston School of Public Health in 1994. She was appointed assistant professor in the Department of Community Medicine, Baylor College of Medicine, in 1994. Her research focused on design and implementation of clinical trials to improve cardiovascular risk factor control in low-income, minority clinic populations. In addition, she collaborated with geriatricians and Alzheimer's disease investigators in studies of cognitive decline as an outcome of cardiovascular disease risk factors, elder self-neglect, and population level impact of cognitive impairment on mortality. In 2000, while continuing to carry out clinical effectiveness research in primary care settings in the Department of Community Medicine, she dedicated a portion of her effort to the research activities of the Alzheimer's Disease and Memory Disorders Center (ADMDC) at Baylor, and collaborated with Dr. Rachelle Doody's group on a number of studies of factors affecting Alzheimer's disease progression and outcomes in a clinical population. In 2016 she was appointed associate professor in the Department of Neurology at Baylor and assumed responsibility as director for research in the ADMDC at Baylor. Dr. Pavlik has a broad range of expertise and experience in design of behavioral lifestyle interventions, design and management of pharmaceutical trials, and design and analysis of population based cohort and case control studies. She is currently responsible for managing a number of industry sponsored clinical trials carried out in the ADMDC, and serves as Baylor site PI for the US POINTER study.