Barbara Bendlin

Assistant Professor, Principal Investigator

I am interested in understanding the interplay of factors that contribute to healthy or pathological brain aging. In particular, the effect of factors that contribute to or protect against the development of Alzheimer's disease.

Ozioma Okonkwo

Assistant Professor, Principal Investigator

Ozioma is an Assistant Professor and Clinical Neuropsychologist. He is interested in elucidating how early brain changes interface with genetics and other molecular alterations to influence progression from cognitive normalcy to symptomatic Alzheimer's disease.

Vikas Singh

Assistant Professor; Principal Investigator

Vikas is an Assistant Professor in the Biostatistics & Medical Informatics and Computer Sciences at UW. He specializes in image analysis, computer vision and machine learning.

Benjamin Austin

Assistant Scientist

I am interested in identifying imaging biomarkers that can be used to reliably predict development of Alzheimer's disease. Currently, I am investigating the relationship of white matter hyperintensities with cerebral perfusion and cognition in adult children of persons with AD.

Catherine Gallagher

Associate Professor; Principal Investigator

Catherine Gallagher , MD, is a neurologist and movement disorders specialist who is studying PET and MRI biomarkers in Parkinson’s disease. She is also experienced in the diagnosis of AD and non-Alzheimer dementias.

Howard Rowley

Professor of Neuroradiology

Dr. Howard A. Rowley is co-director of the Wisconsin ADRC imaging service. He is a Professor of Radiology, Neurology, and Neurosurgery; Chief of Neuroradiology; and the Joseph F. Sackett Professor of Radiology at the University of Wisconsin, Madison.

Sterling Johnson

Professor, Principal Investigator

I'm interested in the neurobiological and psychological processes that affect memory; early detection of Alzheimer's Disease; imaging markers of AD progression; brain changes in normal aging; the effect of intervention on the brain in aging and AD.

Deepti Pachuri

Sanjay Asthana

ADRC Director

Dr. Asthana is Professor of Medicine; Section head of Geriatrics, VA GRECC Director, and ADRC Director. He specializes in dementia characterization and evaluation of interventions for AD.

Carey Gleason

Assistant Professor

Dr. Gleason is a clinical neuropsychologist and the Administrative Director of the Wisconsin Alzheimer's Disease Research Center. She conducts studies on the effect of hormones on cognition and brain function and also conducts studies on cognitive and brain factors that make elderly individuals at greater risk for falls.

Guofan Xu

Assistant Scientist, Principal Investigator

I am interested in developing and applying advanced MRI imaging techniques to characterize early changes in Alzheimer's Disease brain. Major research focus on using multimodal imaging approach including cerebral blood flow, brain metabolism and amyloid images to understand the pathophysiological changes associated with AD risks.

Andrew Alexander

Associate Professor

The research of my group is focused on developing imaging and analysis techniques for the study of human brain function with magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) at 3 tesla. My research group is actively involved in functional MRI techniques, functional MRI of TMS brain stimulation, white matter organization mapping, and structural characterization of brain tissues.

Cynthia Carlsson

Associate Professor

Dr. Carlsson’s research focuses on the effects of vascular risk factors and their treatments on cognition and biomarkers for Alzheimer’s disease in persons at risk for dementia.

Brad Christian

Associate Professor

My research involves the development and application of PET methodologies to investigate neurochemical changes in the brain, including studying novel radioligands to characterize neurotransmitter-protein interactions and how they are influenced by the effects of neuropsychiatric disease and psychotropic drugs.

Luigi Puglielli

Associate Professor

Dr. Puglielli's broad research interests focus on the role that lipid metabolism plays in the regulation of Aβ (amyloid β-peptide) generation and synaptogenesis during both normal aging of the brain and the Alzheimer-type of neurodegeneration. Specifically, we focus on the role played by the ceramide-dependent signaling cascade, and by intracellular cholesterol distribution.

Mark Sager

Professor

Dr. Sager is Director of the Wisconsin Alzheimer's Institute and a Professor of Medicine at the University of Wisconsin-Madison School of Medicine and Public Health. He is the founder of the Wisconsin Registry for Alzheimer's Prevention (WRAP) which is a longitudinal study of adult children of persons with Alzheimer's disease.

Maritza Dowling

Statistician

Dr Dowling is a statistician in the Wisconsin ADRC

Amy Hawley

Imaging Program Manager

Amy is the Imaging Program Manager for the Wisconsin Alzheimer's Disease Research Center (W-ADRC); she will get you in contact with the correct people and work with you so that the imaging portion of your research goes smoothly.

Chuck Illingworth

Information Processing Consultant

Alex Birdsill

Research Specialist

Jennifer Oh

Research Specialist

Matthew Palotti

Research Specialist

Jennifer Bond

Study Coordinator

Caitlin Cleary

Study Coordinator

Nancy Davenport-Sis

Study Coordinator

J. Jay Fruehling

Study Coordinator

Sandra Harding

Study Coordinator

Vamsi Ithapu

Won Hwa Kim

Chris Hinrichs

Graduate Student

My research interests are at the intersection of Machine Learning, Medical Imaging, and Neuroscience, where I hope to use each problem domain to drive advances in the others.

Martina Ly

Graduate Student

My main research interests lie in further understanding age-related structural changes and socioemotional processing in the aging brain. In addition to functional and structural magnetic resonance imaging, she hopes to apply methods for multimodal imaging and network connectivity analysis.

Aadhavi Sridharan

Graduate Student

Elizabeth Boots

Student Researcher

Katie-Grace Burk

Student Researcher

Ben Doherty

Student Researcher

Kelsey Melah

Student Researcher

Stephanie Schultz

Student Researcher

Shelly Fitzgerald

Gemma Gliori

Tim Hess

Britta Jabbar

Kristy Kalmoe

Tisha Kawahara

Taylor Schmitz

Mehul Trivedi

Allie Wichman

Lisa Lee

Michele Ries

Kim Farbota

Donald McLaren

Michael Ward

Auriel Willette

Kristopher Kosmatka

Elisa Canu

Erik Kastman

Nayanjyoti Pathak

Aparna Sodhi

Michele Coleman

Liz Flynn

Andrew Johnson

Robbie Kattappuram

Jacquelyn Porter

Nathaniel Snell

Joanna Zurko

Lisa Newman