Professor of Epidemiology & Neuroscience (in the Sergievsky Center)
at Columbia University Irving Medical Center, Columbia University
Academic Appointments & Work Experience
3/2018 – Present
Professor of Epidemiology and Neuroscience (in the Sergievsky Center and Neurology) at Columbia University Medical Center
G. H. Sergievsky Center (Research Department)
College of Physicians and Surgeons, Columbia University, New York, NY
Department of Epidemiology (Academic Department)
Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University, New York, NY
Taub Institute for Research on Alzheimer’s disease and the Aging Brain
College of Physicians and Surgeons, Columbia University, New York, NY
Department of Neurology
College of Physicians and Surgeons, Columbia University, New York, NY
Teaching
Current Courses
Past Courses
Genetic Epidemiology of Aging and Age-Related Disorders (Spring, P8404)
(Previously called Epidemiology and Genetics of Aging), 2001-Present, offered every other year
Lead Instructor, Department of Epidemiology, Columbia University
Independent studies on Genetic Epidemiology of Aging and Age-Related Disorders (Spring PP8490-50), offered for students who could not enroll in P8404 due to time conflict.
Logical Reasoning in Human Genetics | Columbia Global Center | Tunisia
Mechanisms in Human Disease I (Fall, G6003), 2014-2018, 2020
Guest lecturer, Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, Columbia University
Genetics in Psychiatry/Neurology for PGY4 psychiatry residents at Columbia University (Summer, 2015)
Guest lecturer, Department of Psychiatry, Columbia University
Postdoctoral Training
9/1996-8/1999
2/1996-8/1996
2/1996-8/1996
Postdoctoral Scientist, Quantitative Genetics
Center for Neurobiology & Behavior
Department of Psychiatry, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA
Postdoctoral Research Scientist, Genetic Epidemiology
Columbia University, New York, NY
Research Scientist III, Genetic Epidemiology
NY State Institute for Basic Research, Staten Island, NY
Education
9/1987-2/1996
9/1983-5/1985
2/1981-5/1983
Columbia University, New York, NY
DrPH in Genetic Epidemiology
University of California, Berkeley, CA
MPH in Epidemiology
University of California, Irvine, CA
BS in Biology