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How Heart Health Affects Brain Health

Rebecca Gottesman, M.D., PhD., Professor of Neurology, Johns Hopkins Medicine   

Dr. Rebecca Gottesman is an Associate Professor of Neurology, with a joint appointment in Epidemiology at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg  School of Public Health, and is a core faculty member of the Welch Center for Prevention, Epidemiology, and Clinical Research. Her primary clinical interest is stroke.

Her primary research interests include the vascular contribution to cognitive impairment and dementia, with evaluation not only of stroke as a potential risk factor for cognitive change but also vascular risk factors such as hypertension. She works primarily with the Atherosclerosis Risk in Communities (ARIC) study in order to evaluate these long-term associations between vascular risk factors and vascular disease, each, and cognition, using epidemiology and neuroimaging methods. She runs the SCAN lab (Stroke and Cognitive impairment Analysis using Neuroepidemiology) to pursue these research interests.

A light supper is available at 5:30 p.m. The program begins at 6:00 p.m. This event is sponsored by the Hurwitz Lecture Fund.