Suzanne Tyas, PhD
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Associate Editor
Term Expiration:
12/31/2028
Affiliation(s):
University of Waterloo; Canada
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Areas of Interest:
epidemiology, risk factors, Alzheimer’s disease, cognitive reserve and resilience, dementia, multilingualism, early-life factors, healthy aging, longitudinal studies, MCI, Migraine
Biography & Research:
Suzanne Tyas, PhD is an Associate Professor in the School of Public Health Sciences at the University of Waterloo, Canada. She is a neuroepidemiologist specializing in longitudinal studies of aging and cognition. These studies have included the Nun Study, the Kuakini Honolulu-Asia Aging Study, the Canadian Longitudinal Study on Aging, the Manitoba Study of Health and Aging, the Canadian Study of Health and Aging, and SMART, a data harmonization project spanning eleven major North American clinico-pathologic studies of dementia. Her research focuses on early- and late-life predictors of the spectrum of cognition in aging, encompassing cognitive impairment, cognitive reserve and healthy aging.
