Mitzi Gonzales, PhD

JAD profile

Associate Editor

Term Expiration: 

12/31/2025

Affiliation(s): 

Cedars-Sinai Medical Center

Areas of Interest: 

Aging and Cognition; Dementia; Cognitive Impairment; clinical trials; biofluid markers

Biography & Research: 

Mitzi Gonzales is an Assistant Professor in the Glenn Biggs Institute for Alzheimer’s and Neurodegenerative Diseases and the Department of Neurology at The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio. She is a board-certified clinical neuropsychologist. She earned her Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology from the University of Texas at Austin. She completed her pre-doctoral internship at the University of Illinois at Chicago and postdoctoral fellowship in Clinical Neuropsychology at the VA Northern California Health Care system. Her research broadly focuses on identifying mechanisms and biomarkers of advanced age-related cognitive decline and dementia in effort to aid timely diagnosis, prevent progression, and advance treatment discovery. Her research leverages clinical neuropsychology, structural and functional neuroimaging, and geroscience approaches. A primary aim is to understand the underlying mechanisms linking biological aging with increased dementia incidence and develop interventions that slow the rate of cognitive decline.