Alzheimer’s disease and related dementias

Dr. Keller is an Adjunct Assistant Professor in the Department in Health Policy and Management. Her primary appointment is at the Division of General Internal Medicine in the Department of Medicine at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center. Dr. Keller uses methods from epidemiology, behavioral economics, and sociology to examine how clinicians, patients, and caregivers make decisions about medications, surgeries, and treatment plans – and how informatics and health system interventions can be used to improve clinician decision-making.

Elizabeth Rose Mayeda (she/her) is an Associate Professor in the Department of Epidemiology at the UCLA Fielding School of Public Health. Dr. Mayeda's research focuses on identifying modifiable determinants of cognitive decline, dementia, and stroke in late life. Her research program has both applied and methodological themes. She focuses on describing and identifying mechanisms contributing to disparities in late-life cognitive and brain health and also leads work addressing methodological challenges in longitudinal studies of stroke, cognitive aging, and dementia risk.