Investigator, Senior Neurology, Mass General Research Institute

Director of Research Analytics Neurology, Massachusetts General Hospital

Member of the Faculty of Neurology Harvard Medical School

PhD Pennsylvania State University 1992

aging; alzheimer's disease; cognitive behavioral therapy; dementia; epidemiology; intervention development Hiroko Dodge joined Harvard Medical School and Massachusetts General Hospital in October 2022. Before the transition, she was a Professor of Neurology and Co-Associate Director for the NIH-Layton Aging and Alzheimer’s Disease Center (ADC) at Oregon Health & Science University.  She also directed the ADC's Biostatistics and Data Management Core for over 15 years. Between 2009 and 2019, she simultaneously directed the Data Core at Michigan Alzheimer’s Disease Center at the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor, MI, where she served as the endowed Professor of Neurology.  

She is the founding chair of a Professional Interest Area (PIA) entitled “Clinical Trials Advancements and Outcomes” in the International Society to Advance Alzheimer’s Research (ISTAART, an international AD research organization sponsored by the Alzheimer’s Association). This PIA creates an international researchers’ forum where innovative clinical trial approaches, developments of outcomes sensitive to trial effects, and unique non-pharmacological trials are introduced and discussed. She holds Fellow status at the Gerontological Society of America and is a statistical and senior editor for multiple dementia journals.

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