Yakeel T. Quiroz, Ph.D.
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Associate Professor of Psychology in the Department of Psychiatry Harvard Medical School |
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Psychologist Psychiatry, Massachusetts General Hospital |
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Temporary Academic Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School |
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Non-MD Cln Inves, Asso Prf (M) Psychiatry, Massachusetts General Hospital |
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Paul B. and Sandra M. Edgerley MGH Research Scholar 2020-2025 Mass General Research Institute, Massachusetts General Hospital |
| MA 2006 |
| PhD 2013 |
Research Interests
Research Narrative
Dr. Quiroz is Associate Professor in the Departments of Psychiatry and Neurology at Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School in Boston, MA. She is the Director of the Mass General Familial Dementia Neuroimaging Lab, and the Multicultural Alzheimer’s Prevention Program-MAPP.
Her research interests include brain imaging and genomics, and early detection and prevention of Alzheimer’s disease and other dementias. Research in her lab is focused on the study of cognitive and brain changes that predispose individuals to develop dementia later in life. She is currentlty the principal investigator of the Colombia-Boston (COLBOS) longitudinal biomarker study on early-onset autosomal dominant Alzheimer’s disease, and the Boston Latino Aging Study (BLAST).
Dr. Quiroz has published over 100 peer-reviewed articles, and her work is recognized by her peers at the local, national and international level. She has earned several awards throughout her career, including an NIH Director’s Pioneer Early Independence Award, the FABBS Foundation Early Career Impact Award, and the Alzheimer’s Association Inge Grundke-Iqbal Award for Alzheimer’s Research.
To support Dr. Quiroz's research: Resistance-to-Alzheimers
To support Dr. Quiroz's research: Resistance-to-Alzheimers
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| yquiroz@mgh.harvard.edu |
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