Dr. Rachel Buckley is an Associate Professor of Neurology at Massachusetts General Hospital and Brigham and Women’s Hospital. She is a past recipient of an NIH-NIA K99/R00 Pathway to Independence award and an NIH DP2 New Innovator Award. After initially completing her Ph.D. in Neuropsychology at the University of Melbourne, Australia, with the Australian Imaging Biomarker and Lifestyle Study of Aging, she then moved to Boston to train in PET neuroimaging and cognitive decline under the mentorship of Dr. Reisa Sperling at the Harvard Aging Brain Study. Her research interests lie in sex differences in risk for Alzheimer’s disease, and she holds multiple NIH grants seeking to optimize women’s brain health in neurodegenerative disease, with a specific focus on the role of menopause, sex hormones and the X chromosome to impact risk and resilience to Alzheimer’s disease. Dr. Buckley is the recent past Chair of the Sex and
Gender Differences in Alzheimer’s disease Professional Interest Area for the Alzheimer’s Association and sits on the editorial board for the scientific journal Neurology, as well as the Alzheimer’s & Dementia sister journal, Diagnosis, Assessment & Disease Monitoring.

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