Center for Healthy Aging Research Seminar with: Clara Vila-Castelar, PhD

Rutgers Center for Healthy Aging Research Seminar

“The role of sex-based factors in the risk and resilience to Alzheimer’s disease”

Clara Vila-Castelar, PhD, Clinical Neuropsychologist & Assistant Professor of Neurology, Washington University School of Medicine

Dr. Clara Vila-Castelar is a clinical neuropsychologist and Assistant Professor of Neurology at Washington University School of Medicine. She completed her doctoral training in clinical psychology at Queens College, The Graduate Center (City University of New York), and her internship and postdoctoral fellowship in multicultural neuropsychology at Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School. Her research focuses on understanding risk and resilience factors to Alzheimer’s disease (AD) and cognitive decline. Her work leverages sporadic and genetic models of AD, and multimodal data, including cognitive, neuroimaging, cerebrospinal fluid and blood biomarkers. She was awarded an NIA K99/R00 grant to examine the impact of sex, sex steroid hormones and reproductive history on the progression of autosomal dominant AD. She is the associate core leader for the Cognition Cores in the Dominantly Inherited Alzheimer Network-Trials Unit (DIAN-TU) and the DIAN observational study. Her clinical training and expertise focus on providing culturally and linguistically appropriate neuropsychological services to diverse adult individuals with medical, neurological, psychiatric, and developmental conditions, including monolingual and bilingual Spanish-speakers.

Attend Via Zoom: https://rutgers.zoom.us/j/96481573539?pwd=mlulA4oM1dqqaimbVCTKyyv5l9JUPk.1