I am a social epidemiologist and my primary research focus pertains to how social and cardiovascular exposures from across the life-course influence cognitive function, Alzheimer's disease and other dementias, stroke and other related health outcomes in old age. In my work on cognitive aging, I also focus on minority populations. My ultimate research goal is to employ lifecourse models to better understand how modification of social and cardiovascular factors or their timing may reduce the burden of cognitive aging and dementia disparities. I am currently leading two NIH-funded R01 projects that use causal inference methods to understand determinants of dementia and selection biases.
Research Team
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Katrina Kezios
Postdoctoral Research Scientist
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Xuexin Yu
Postdoctoral Research Scientist
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Calvin Colvin
PhD Student
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Neal Jawadekar
PhD Studet
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Antonio Bustillo
PhD Student
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Kaylie Moropoulos
Program Coordinator
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Kelly Chen
Research Analyst
Mentorship and Lab Alumni
Postdoctoral Scholars/Fellows
Tali Elfassy, MPH, Phd. 02/2017-07/2018
Leslie Grasset, PhD. 03/2018-03/2019
Soohyun Kim, PhD. 06/2020-10/2021
Peiyi Lu, PhD. 07/2021-11/2023
PhD Advisory
Calvin Colvin: Epidemiology, Columbia University. 2023-Present
Neal Jawadekar: Epidemiology, Columbia University. 2020-Present
Sarah Al Omari: Epidemiology, American University of Beirut. 2021-Present
Jongseong Lee: Social Work, Policy and Analysis, Columbia University. 2022-2023
Precious Esie: Epidemiology, Columbia University. 2021-2022
Samual Swift: Epidemiology, University of Miami. 2016-2019
Tali Elfassy: Epidemiology, University of Miami
Medical Students
Sanna Alas: Columbia VP&S Medical Stuent
Masters Level Students
Isabel Nelson: MPH Epidemiology, Columbia University
Adina Zhang: MPH Biostatistics, Columbia University
Lanyu Zhang: MPH Biostatistics, Miami University
Contact me
az2567@cumc.columbia.edu
(734) 846-2836
Mailman School of Public Health, Epidemiology Dept.
722 W 168th St,
New York, NY, 10032