Scientific Content
Literature searches, data extraction and data entry, meta-analysis calculations, and database updates are performed at Massachusetts General Hospital/Harvard Medical School in collaboration with the Harvard School of Public Health.
Director and Principal Investigator
Deborah Blacker, M.D., Sc.D.
Gerontology Research Unit, Department of Psychiatry, Massachusetts General Hospital
Harvard Medical School/Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, MA
Co-Director
Jennifer Weuve, Sc.D.
Rush Institute for Healthy Aging, Rush University Medical Center
Rush Medical College, Chicago, IL
Meta-analytic Methods
Matthew B. McQueen, Sc.D.
Department of Psychology and Institute for Behavioral Genetics
University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder, CO
Bibliographic Methods
John Jackson
Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, MA
Data Curation
Sunali Goonesekera, Harvard School of Public Health (2011-present)
Meredith H. Arasaratnam, ScD, Harvard School of Public Health (2008-present)
John Jackson, Harvard School of Public Health (2011-present)
Bryan James, PhD, Rush University Medical Center (2010-present)
Alain Koyama, University of California, San Francisco (2010-present)
Shanshan Li, Harvard School of Public Health (2009-2011)
Jacqueline O'Brien, Harvard School of Public Health (2009-present)
Melinda C. Power, Harvard School of Public Health (2008-present)
Maile Ray, Harvard School of Public Health (2009-2010)
Gautam Sageev, Harvard School of Public Health (2011-present)
Beinan Zhao, Harvard School of Public Health (2010-2011)
Research Assistance
Laura Carroll, Massachusetts General Hospital (2006-2008)
Michelle Chambord, Massachusetts General Hospital (2008)
Sara Grimes, Massachusetts General Hospital (2008-2010)
Rebecca Rudel, Massachusetts General Hospital (2010-present)
Scientific Advisory Board
Monique Breteler, M.D., Ph.D.
Neuroepidemiology Section, Department of Epidemiology & Biostatistics
Erasmus Medical Center, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
Francine Grodstein, Sc.D.
Channing Laboratory, Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women’s Hospital
Harvard Medical School/Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, MA, USA
Bradley T. Hyman, M.D., Ph.D.
MassGeneral Institute for Neurodegenerative Disease (MIND)
Department of Neurology, Massachusetts General Hospital
Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
Walter Kukull, M.S., Ph.D.
Department of Epidemiology,
University of Washington School of Public Health and Community Medicine, Seattle, WA, USA
Nan Laird, Ph.D.
Department of Biostatistics
Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, MA, USA
Lenore Launer, Ph.D.
Laboratory of Epidemiology, Demography, and Biometry
National Institute on Aging, Bethesda, MD, USA
Richard Mayeux, M.D., M.P.H.
Gertrude H. Sergievsky Center, Taub Institute, and Department of Neurology
Columbia University, New York, NY, USA
Meir Stampfer, M.D., Dr.P.H.
Channing Laboratory, Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital
Harvard Medical School/Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, MA, USA
Kristine Yaffe, M.D.
San Francisco Veterans Affairs Medical Center
University of California, San Francisco
San Francisco, CA, USA