Pallavi (PJ) Joshi

Psychometrician

Background

Pallavi Joshi graduated from Boston University in 2008 with a degree in Psychology.  Her senior thesis with Dr. Alice Cronin-Golomb focused on visual cognition and social leisure in individuals with Alzheimer’s disease.  From May 2006 to December 2007, Pallavi studied language processing with Dr. Jacqueline Liederman and received a UROP Summer Award in 2007.  Pallavi joined the ADC team in May 2008.

ADC Role

Pallavi serves as a psychometrician for the DHA, ICARA and REVEAL studies.  Pallavi is also a research assistant for the Skills Assessment for Elderly Drivers (SAFE-Drivers) study.

Research Interests

Pallavi is interested in simple visual interventions to improve performance on activities of daily living (ADL) in individuals with Alzheimer’s disease.  She is also interested in visually enhancing leisure activities to improve quality of life of individuals with Alzheimer’s disease.

Recent Presentations

Joshi, P., Liederman, J., Gilbert, K., McGraw Fisher, J., Mathews, G., Frye, R.,. (2008). The repair of masked speech on the basis of subsequent informative vs. misinformative information: Individual differences. Poster to be presented at American Academy of Clinical Neuropsychology Annual Conference, Boston, MA, June 2008.

Sullivan, K.D., Joshi, P., Becker, C.L., Morales, S.F., & Chitnis, T. (2008). Visual Dysfunction in Pediatric Multiple Sclerosis. Poster presented at Massachusetts Neuropsychological Society Science Symposium, Cambridge, MA, June 2008.

Centi, J., Stavitsky, K., Joshi, P., Blease, S., Bogdanova, Y., Cronin-Golomb, A. (2008). Relation of Orthostatic Hypotension to Cognition in Parkinson's Disease. Poster presented at Cognitive Aging Conference, Atlanta, GA, April 2008.

Joshi, P. and Liederman, J. (2007). Individual Differences in Compensatory Language Mechanisms used to Hear Speech in Noise. Poster presented at Undergraduate Research Opportunities Program Symposium at Boston University, Boston, MA, October 2007.

• Introduction
• Faculty
  • Carmela Abraham, PhD
  • Brandon Ally, PhD
  • Rhoda Au, PhD
  • Sanford Auerbach, MD
  • Andrew Budson, MD
  • Christine Chaisson, MPH
  • Adrienne Cupples, PhD
  • Alpaslan Dedeoglu, MD, PhD
  • Nancy Emerson Lombardo, PhD
  • Lindsay Farrer, PhD
  • Robert Ferrante, PhD
  • Richard Fine, PhD
  • Brandon E. Gavett, PhD
  • Lee E. Goldstein, MD, PhD
  • Robert C. Green, MD, MPH
    (ADCRP Co-Director)
  • Rose Harvey, DNSc, RN
  • Kathy Horvath, PhD, RN
  • Angela Jefferson, PhD
  • Ron Killiany, PhD
  • Neil Kowall, MD
    (ADCC Director)
  • Alan Mandell, MD
  • Ann McKee, MD
  • Peter Morin, MD, PhD
  • Mark Moss, PhD
  • Anil Nair, MD
  • Maureen O’Connor, PsyD
  • Al Ozonoff, PhD
  • Thomas Perls, MD, MPH
  • Henry Querfurth, MD
  • Sudha Seshadri, MD
  • Robert Stern, PhD
    (ADCRP Co-Director)
  • David Tate, PhD
  • John Wells, PhD
  • Philip Wolf, MD
  • Benjamin Wolozin, MD, PhD
• Fellows
  • Brandon Gavett, PhD
• Staff
  • Lorraine Baldwin
  • Caleb Bliss
  • Margaret Brickley, MS, RN, ACNP
  • Nicole Cantwell
  • Elana Cook
  • Diane Dixon
  • Angela Dwyer
  • Jamie Frederick, MSW
  • Amanda Gentile, MRes
  • Natalie Joffe
  • Pallavi Joshi
  • Caroline Kubilus
  • Denise Lautenbach, MS
  • Jane Mwicigi, MPH
  • Valerie Nolen
  • Joe Palmisano, MPH
  • Catherine Pfau, MHHS
    (ADCRP Administrator)
  • Sumati Raghavan, MBBS, MD
  • Carol Rossi, RN, BSN
  • Alicia Semiatin
  • Linda Snyder, MA
  • Eric Steinberg, MSN, RN, CS, CANP
  • Michael Wake, MSW
  • Megan Wulff
  • Beverly Young
• Trainees
  • Daniel H. Daneshvar, MA
  • Susan Lambe, EdM
• Past Trainees
  • Laura Byerly
  • Megan Campbell, MA
  • Winston Chung
  • Vanessa Holley
  • Kelsey Smith
  • Emily Hubbard
  • Sarah Wong