UW ADRC - Key Persons


Aasiya Islam

Job Titles:
  • Research Coordinator, Clinical Trials

Aimee Schantz

Job Titles:
  • Research Manager, Division of Neuropathology, BRaIN Lab, Keene Lab, UW

Ainsley Barrow

Job Titles:
  • Student Research Assistant, Clinical Trials

Ajay Dhaka


Albert Fuchs

Job Titles:
  • Co - Director

Alexander R. Mendenhall

Job Titles:
  • Assistant Professor, UW Department of Pathology

Ali Shojaie

Job Titles:
  • Professor of Biostatistics, UW / Adjunct Professor of Statistics, UW / Co - Investigator, Data Management and Statistics Core, ADRC

Alicia Adams

Job Titles:
  • Research Coordinator, ADRC Clinical Core

Allison Beller

Job Titles:
  • Research Manager - ADRC Neuropathology Core

Allyson Schrier

Job Titles:
  • ECHO Dementia Program Manager / Project Coordinator

Andrew Ko

Job Titles:
  • My Research Focuses on Human Electrophysiological and Imaging Correlates of Behavior, Disease, and Interventions for Epilepsy, Movement Disorders and Pain
Andrew Ko |My research focuses on human electrophysiological and imaging correlates of behavior, disease, and interventions for epilepsy, movement disorders and pain.

Andrew McCormick

Job Titles:
  • Social Worker ( Alumnus )

Angela Hanson

Job Titles:
  • Geriatrician / Assistant Professor, UW Medicine, Division of Gerontology and Geriatric Medicine / Co - Investigator, Clinical Core, ADRC

Angela I. Gomez

Job Titles:
  • Research Coordinator, ADRC Clinical Core

Annie T. Chen

Job Titles:
  • Assistant Professor, UW Department of Biomedical Informatics and Medical Education / Department

Annika Noreen

Job Titles:
  • ADRC Program Manager - Administrative Core
  • Program Manager, ADRC / Research

Astrid M. Suchy-Dicey

Job Titles:
  • Assistant Research Professor, Washington State University, Initiative for Research and Education to Advance Community Health ( IREACH )

Barak Gaster

Job Titles:
  • Professor of Medicine, UW Division of General Internal Medicine / Co - Investigator, Outreach, Recruitment, and Education Core, ADRC / View Profile

Billie Swalla


Brenna Cholerton

Job Titles:
  • Department

Brianna Jones

Job Titles:
  • Research Coordinator, ADRC Native Research and Resource Core / Outreach and Engagement Core, Institute for Research and Education to Advance Community Health, Washington State University

Caitlin Latimer

Job Titles:
  • Assistant Professor, UW Department of Laboratory Medicine & Pathology / Co - Leader, Precision Neuropathology Core, ADRC

Carolyn Parsey

Job Titles:
  • Assistant Professor, UW Neurology

Chang-En Yu

Job Titles:
  • Research Associate Professor, UW Medicine, Division of Gerontology & Geriatric Medicine

Chantel Prat

Job Titles:
  • My Research Investigates the Biological Basis of Individual Differences in Language and Cognitive Abilities
Chantel Prat | My research investigates the biological basis of individual differences in language and cognitive abilities.

Christine Mac Donald

Job Titles:
  • Associate Professor, UW Department of Neurological Surgery

Clemma J. Muller

Job Titles:
  • Assistant Research Professor, College of Nursing, WSU / Co - Investigator, Native Research and Resource Core, ADRC

Cyrus P. Zabetian

Job Titles:
  • Associate Professor, UW Department of Neurology / Pacific Udall Center / Department

Céline Abell

Job Titles:
  • Neuroscience Staff Member
  • Program Administrator - Program Oversight and Administration

Daniel Promislow

Job Titles:
  • Professor, UW Department of Pathology, UW Department of Biology / Director, Canine Longevity Consortium

Darla I. Chapman

Job Titles:
  • Clinical Trials Coordinator and Clinician, ADRC / Nurse Practitioner, Harborview Medical Center, MBWC Clinic

David Lewis

Job Titles:
  • Director, HMC Nuclear Medicine / Professor, Department of Radiology / Contributor, Imaging and Biomarker Core, ADRC

David Perkel

Job Titles:
  • Co - Director

Debby Tsuang

Job Titles:
  • Professor, Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences / Adjunct Professor, Epidemiology / Director, GRECC, VISN - 20 Geriatric Research, Education, and Clinical Center / Psychiatrist, Clinical Core, ADRC
  • Tsuang 's Research Focuses on the Genetic and Phenotypic Characterization of Neuropsychiatric and Neurodegenerative Disorders
Debby Tsuang | Dr. Tsuang's research focuses on the genetic and phenotypic characterization of neuropsychiatric and neurodegenerative disorders.

Dedra Buchwald

Job Titles:
  • Professor, Elson S. Floyd College of Medicine, Washington State University

Deidre Jansson

Job Titles:
  • Senior Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, UW School of Medicine

Dori Rosenberg

Job Titles:
  • Affiliate Assistant Professor, Health Services, UW School of Public Health / Assistant Investigator, Kaiser Permanente Washington Health Research Institute

ECHO Dementia

Job Titles:
  • Co - Leader, Project
  • ECHO Dementia Program Manager / Project Coordinator

Ed Lein

Job Titles:
  • Senior Investigator, Allen Institute for Brain Science

Eliot Brenowitz

Job Titles:
  • Co - Director

Elisa Tan Lee

Job Titles:
  • Research Professor of Biostatistics and Epidemiology, University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center Director, Center for American Indian Health Research, University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center

Elisabeth Lindley

Job Titles:
  • Nurse Practitioner, Harborview Medical Center, MBWC Clinic

Elizabeth Blue

Job Titles:
  • Assistant Professor, UW Division of Medical Genetics

Elizabeth Buffalo

Job Titles:
  • Our Research Is Aimed at Understanding the Neural Mechanisms That Support Learning and Memory
Elizabeth Buffalo | Our research is aimed at understanding the neural mechanisms that support learning and memory.

Elizabeth Rhea

Job Titles:
  • Research Biologist, VA Puget Sound Health Care System / Research Assistant Professor, Division of Gerontology, UW

Ellen Wijsman

Job Titles:
  • Professor, UW Division of Medical Genetics, Department of Medicine and Department of Biostatistics / Leader, Data Management and Statistics Core, ADRC

Emily Meeks

Job Titles:
  • Program Manager for Dementia Friends, the Memory Hub, UW Memory and Brain Wellness Center

Emily Trittschuh

Job Titles:
  • Associate Professor, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, UW

Eric Larson

Job Titles:
  • Senior Investigator, Kaiser Permanente Washington Health Research Institute / Clinical Professor, UW School of Public Health, Health Services / Associate Director, Administrative Core, ADRC

Erica Melief

Job Titles:
  • Research Scientist, Keene Lab, UW

Erica Runge

Job Titles:
  • Student, MBWC

Erik S. Carlson

Job Titles:
  • Assistant Professor, UW Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences

Erin Kato

Job Titles:
  • Student Assistant

Fay Horak

Job Titles:
  • Professor, Department of Neurology Oregon Health and Science University / Pacific Udall Center / Department

Gabrielle Edwards

Job Titles:
  • Research Coordinator, ADRC Clinical Core

Gage L. Sibik

Job Titles:
  • Research Coordinator, Clinical Trials

Gail Li

Job Titles:
  • Associate Professor, UW Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences

Garret Stuber

Job Titles:
  • Research in the Stuber Lab Uses an Interdisciplinary Approach to Study the Neural Circuit Basis of Motivated Behavior
Garret Stuber | Research in the Stuber lab uses an interdisciplinary approach to study the neural circuit basis of motivated behavior.

Garth Terry

Job Titles:
  • Acting Assistant Professor, UW Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences / Co - Investigator, Imaging and Biomarker Core, ADRC / Department

Genevieve Wanucha

Job Titles:
  • Public Information Specialist, ADRC, MBWC, the
  • Public Information Specialist, ADRC, MBWC, the Memory Hub on - Site Collaborator, Memory Hub ( Maude 's Garden )

Grace Shepherd

Job Titles:
  • Research Study Assistant, ADRC Outreach, Recruitment, and Education Core / Research

Hesam Jahanian

Job Titles:
  • Assistant Professor, UW Radiology, UW Medicine

Horacio de la Iglesia

Job Titles:
  • Co - Director

Jane Sullivan

Job Titles:
  • Co - Director

Janelle Taylor

Job Titles:
  • Professor and Chair, UW Department of Anthropology / Department

Jay Rubinstein


Jenny Tong

Job Titles:
  • Associate Professor of Medicine

Jessica McDougall

Job Titles:
  • Research Coordinator, ADRC

Jessica Tulloch

Job Titles:
  • Research Biologist, Veterans Affairs Puget Sound Healthcare System

Jessica Young

Job Titles:
  • Assistant Professor, UW Department of Pathology / Institute for Stem Cell and Regenerative Medicine / Leader, Stem Cell Component, Precision Neuropathology Core, ADRC

Jodi Lapidus

Job Titles:
  • Professor, Department of Biostatistics Oregon Health & Science University / Pacific Udall Center / Department

Jose M. Garcia

Job Titles:
  • My Research Focuses on Neuroendocrinologic Aspects of Traumatic Brain Injury and on Hormonal Pathways in Wasting Conditions
Jose M. Garcia | My research focuses on neuroendocrinologic aspects of traumatic brain injury and on hormonal pathways in wasting conditions.

Joseph F. Quinn

Job Titles:
  • Professor, Department of Neurology Oregon Health & Science University / Pacific Udall Center / Department

Josh Russell

Job Titles:
  • Postdoctoral Associate, UW Department of Pathology, Kaeberlein Lab

Karen Clay

Job Titles:
  • Social Worker, Harborview Medical Center, UW Medicine

Karen Edwards

Job Titles:
  • Affiliate Professor, UW Department of Epidemiology / Pacific Udall Center / Department

Karin E. Bornfeldt

Job Titles:
  • Professor of Medicine and Pathology

Katherine Isabel López

Job Titles:
  • Community Engagement Specialist, Outreach, Recruitment, and Engagement Core, ADRC

Katherine Prater

Job Titles:
  • Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Jayadev Lab, Department of Neurology, UW Medicine

Kathryn K. Chen

Job Titles:
  • Attending Physician, Adult Psychiatrist / Acting Assistant Professor, UW Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences

Kelley Pascoe

Job Titles:
  • Graduate Research Assistant, Outreach, Recruitment, and Engagement Core, ADRC

Kimberly Alonge

Job Titles:
  • Acting Instructor, UW Medicine

Kinsey Chapman

Job Titles:
  • Research Coordinator, Clinical Trials, ADRC

Kristen Farris

Job Titles:
  • Research Coordinator, Division of Gerontology & Geriatric Medicine, UW Medicine

Kristoffer Rhoads

Job Titles:
  • Associate Professor, UW Department of Neurology

Kyle Shea

Job Titles:
  • Neuroscience Staff Member
  • Graduate Program Advisor ( GPA ) - Student and Applicant Advisor and Academic Programing

Lara Mangravite

Job Titles:
  • President, Sage Bionetworks / Contributor, Imaging and Biomarker Core, ADRC

Laura E. Gibbons

Job Titles:
  • Senior Research Scientist, UW General Internal Medicine / Biostatistician, Data Management and Statistics Core, ADRC

Laura Heath

Job Titles:
  • Postdoctoral Research Associate, School of Pharmacy, UW / Department

Linda K. Ko

Job Titles:
  • Professor and Associate Chair, Health Systems and Population Health, UW School of Public Health / Adjunct Professor, Family Medicine / Lead, Outreach, Recruitment, and Engagement Core, ADRC

Lorena Wright

Job Titles:
  • Clinical Associate Professor of Medicine / University of Washington

Maria Sibaja

Job Titles:
  • Research Coordinator, Imaging and Biomarker Core, ADRC

Marigrace Becker

Job Titles:
  • MBWC Community Education and Impact
  • Program Manager of Community
  • Program Manager of Community Education and Impact, MBWC
Program Manager of Community Education and Impact, MBWC | Director, The Memory Hub: A Place for Dementia-Friendly Community, Collaboration, and Impact

Mark Bothwell

Job Titles:
  • Co - Director

Martha Bosma


Martin Darvas

Job Titles:
  • Acting Assistant Professor, UW Department of Pathology

Matt Kaeberlein

Job Titles:
  • Professor, UW Department of Pathology

Maureen Neitz

Job Titles:
  • Co - Director
  • Program Director
  • Scientist
Maureen Neitz is a vision scientist whose research includes work on color vision, gene therapy, and the prevention of nearsightedness. She holds the Ray H. Hill Endowed Chair in Ophthalmology at the University of Washington and she is the director for the National Eye Institute P30 funded Vision Research Core at UW. Neitz earned a PhD in biochemistry and molecular biology from the University of California, Santa Barbara in 1986. After continuing at UC Santa Barbara as a postdoctoral fellow, she joined the faculty at the Medical College of Wisconsin in 1991. She moved to the University of Washington in 2009. Neitz is married to and works with Jay Neitz, also a vision scientist. They have been successfully collaborating in studies of the visual system from genes to behavior since 1986. They started a company, and successfully translated discoveries at the bench to therapeutic interventions for nearsightedness. Their work on gene therapy to "cure" color blindness was listed in Time magazine as #3 in the top 10 most important scientific discoveries of 2009.

Melanie A. Burke

Job Titles:
  • Clinical Research Manager

Michael J. Persenaire

Job Titles:
  • Neurologist, UW Medicine

Michael J. Schrift

Job Titles:
  • Geriatric Psychiatrist / Professor and Medical Director of Neuropsychiatry & Brain Health, UW

Michael O. Dorschner

Job Titles:
  • Director, UW Northwest Clinical Genomics Lab / Research Assistant Professor, UW Department of Pathology / Department

Michael Shadlen

Job Titles:
  • Co - Director

Michelle Erickson

Job Titles:
  • Research Assistant Professor, UW Gerontology and Geriatric Medicine / Research

Michelle S. Kim

Job Titles:
  • Assistant Professor, UW Department of Neurology / View Profile

Mimi Pattison

Job Titles:
  • Regional Medical Director, CHI Franciscan Hospice and Palliative Care

Molly Chinn

Job Titles:
  • Research Program Manager, VISN Mental Illness Research, Education and Clinical Center ( MIRECC ), VA Puget Sound Health Care System / Program Manager, ADRC Research and Education Component

Molly Stillwell

Job Titles:
  • Research Coordinator, Clinical Core, ADRC

Murray Raskind

Job Titles:
  • Professor and Vice - Chairman, UW Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences / Department

Nancy Isenberg

Job Titles:
  • Clinical Associate Professor of Neurology, UW / Medical Director, Center for Healthy Aging at Swedish Neuroscience Institute

Neil M. Nathanson

Job Titles:
  • Co - Director

Nick Ensroth

Job Titles:
  • Research Coordinator, Clinical Trials

Norma B. Coe

Job Titles:
  • Assistant Professor, UW Health Services / Department

Oleg Zaslavsky

Job Titles:
  • Assistant Professor, Biobehavioral Nursing and Health Informatics Department, UW School of Nursing / Associate Director of Research, De Tornyay Center for Healthy Aging / Department

Olena Korvatska

Job Titles:
  • Acting Assistant Professor, UW Department of Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences

Parley Belsey

Job Titles:
  • Research Coordinator, Clinical Core, ADRC

Patricia Arean

Job Titles:
  • Professor, UW Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences / Lead Researcher, GOLD Brain Games Study / Department

Patrik Johansson

Job Titles:
  • Director of Practice Based Research Network, Partnerships for Native Health, WSU

Paul Crane

Job Titles:
  • Professor, UW Department of Medicine

Paul Philips

Job Titles:
  • Co - Director

Reza Hosseini Ghomi

Job Titles:
  • Neurologist, UW Medicine / Director, UW DigiPsych Lab

Richard S. Morrison

Job Titles:
  • Professor, Neurological Surgery, UW Medicine
ADRC 2018-2019 Pilot Project: Epigenetic role for histone deacetylase 2 in Alzheimer's disease pathogenesis

Robert Freishtat

Job Titles:
  • Professor of Pediatrics, George Washington University School of Medicine and Health Sciences

Robin Lawrence

Job Titles:
  • Physician 's Assistant / Nurse Practitioner, UW ADRC / View Profile

Ruth Kohen

Job Titles:
  • Geriatric Psychiatrist ( Alumna )

Sarah Simon

Job Titles:
  • Clinical Trials Research Coordinator, ADRC

Sean David Mooney

Job Titles:
  • Professor, Biomedical Informatics and Medical Education / Chief Research Information Officer ( CRIO ) of UW Medicine Principal Investigator / Co - Investigator, Imaging and Biomarker Core, ADRC

Shaune Demers

Job Titles:
  • Geriatric Psychiatrist / Assistant Professor, UW Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences

Sheri J.Y. Mizumori

Job Titles:
  • Co - Director

Shu-Ching (Gene) Hu

Job Titles:
  • Assistant Professor, UW Department of Neurology / Pacific Udall Center / Department

Shubhabrata (Joey) Mukherjee

Job Titles:
  • Research Assistant Professor, UW Department of Medicine, Division of General Internal Medicine

Siobhan McDermott

Job Titles:
  • ADRC Research Coordinator

Sonia K. Bishop

Job Titles:
  • Research Scientist, Outreach, Recruitment, and Engagement Core, ADRC

Steve I. Perlmutter

Job Titles:
  • Co - Director
  • Program Director
Steve Perlmutter received his bachelor's degree in Biomedical Engineering from Brown University in 1979 and his Ph.D. in Neuroscience from Northwestern University in 1991, working with Barry Peterson and Jim Baker. He did a postdoctoral fellowship with Eberhard Fetz at UW and joined the faculty here in 1997. He is currently Research Professor in the Dept. of Physiology & Biophysics and Core Scientist in the Washington National Primate Research Center. For many years he studied the neural mechanisms of reflex and voluntary movements, and more recently his research focuses on interventions to induce neural plasticity and promote recovery from CNS damage. In his spare time, he enjoys hiking and kayaking in the natural beauty of the Pacific Northwest.

Steven E. Kahn

Job Titles:
  • Professor of Medicine

Suman Jayadev

Job Titles:
  • Associate Professor, UW Department of Neurology / Director and Neurogeneticist, UW Neurogenetics Clinic / UW Huntington Disease Center of Excellence / Associate Director and Clinical Core Leader, ADRC

Sunny Ko

Job Titles:
  • Neuroscience Staff Member
  • Office Assistant

Swati Rane

Job Titles:
  • Assistant Professor, UW Department of Radiology

Tatiana Sadak

Job Titles:
  • Associate Professor, UW School of Nursing / Geriatric Psychiatry Specialist, Psychiatric Wellness and Dementia Care LLC / Department Bio

Theresa Kehne

Job Titles:
  • Research Coordinator, ADRC

Thomas D. Bird

Job Titles:
  • Professor Emeritus, UW Medicine, UW Department of Neurology / Chief, UW Division of Neurogenetics

Thomas J. Grabowski

Job Titles:
  • Professor, Department of Radiology
  • Professor, UW Departments of Radiology and Neurology
Professor, Department of Radiology/Joint Professor, Department of Neurology, UW Medicine /Tim B. Engle Endowed Professorship for Brain Health Innovations | Medical Director and Neurologist, UW MBWC/ Director, UW Integrated Brain Imaging Center | PI/Leader, Imaging and Biomarker Core and Administration Core, ADRC

Thomas J. Montine

Job Titles:
  • Chairman, Department of Pathology, Stanford University School of Medicine. Director, Pacific Udall Center

Timothy A. Thornton

Job Titles:
  • Associate Professor, UW Department of Biostatistics / Lead Statistician / Co - Investigator, Genetic Analysis Center for the Hispanic Community Health Study ( HCHS ) / Study of Latinos ( SOL )
Lead statistician/Co-investigator, Genetic Analysis Center for the Hispanic Community Health Study (HCHS)/Study of Latinos (SOL)

Tom Reh

Job Titles:
  • Co - Director

Trang Le

Job Titles:
  • Clinical Pharmacist, Overlake Senior Health Clinics, Overlake Hospital

Tung Le

Job Titles:
  • Senior Computing Specialist, UW Division of Medical Genetics and Biostatistics / Database Manager, ADRC

Valerie Kelly

Job Titles:
  • Assistant Professor, Physical Therapist, UW Department of Rehabilitation Medicine / Pacific Udall Center / Department

Walter A. Kukull

Job Titles:
  • Professor, UW Department of Epidemiology / Director, NACC, National Alzheimer 's Coordinating Center

Wayne C. McCormick

Job Titles:
  • Professor of Medicine and and Division Head, UW Department of Medicine, Division of Gerontology and Geriatric Medicine / Department

William Spain