{"id":10004,"date":"2018-07-20T12:55:13","date_gmt":"2018-07-20T16:55:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/alzresearch\/?post_type=profile&#038;p=10004"},"modified":"2020-02-19T15:39:19","modified_gmt":"2020-02-19T20:39:19","slug":"hugo-javier-aparicio","status":"publish","type":"profile","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/alzresearch\/profile\/hugo-javier-aparicio\/","title":{"rendered":"Hugo Javier Aparicio"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Background<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span>Dr. Aparicio earned his medical degree from Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania in 2009. He completed his\u00a0internship in internal\u00a0medical at Pennsylvania\u00a0Hospital in 2010, and then went on to finish his residency training in Neurology at the\u00a0Hospital of the\u00a0University of Pennsylvania in 2013. \u00a0In 2014, he completed fellowship training in Vascular Neurology at Boston\u00a0University Medical\u00a0Center. Dr. Aparicio\u00a0<\/span><span>is an Assistant Professor of Neurology at Boston University School of Medicine and a vascular neurologist who takes care of patients with stroke and other vascular diseases of the brain. He is an investigator with the Framingham Heart Study and with the Veterans Health Administration.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>Research Interests<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span>Dr. Aparicio\u2019s research interests include the identification of lifestyle risk factors, biomarkers, neuroimaging markers, and genetic influences associated with cerebrovascular diseases. He is specifically interested in the contributions of vascular risk factors to stroke, brain injury and aging, cognitive dysfunction, and the development of Alzheimer\u2019s disease and related dementias.<\/span><\/p>\n<h4>Awards<\/h4>\n<p><span>Dr. Aparicio is the recipient of the American Academy of Neurology (AAN) Career Development Award, part of the AAN Research Program funding neuroscience research and training. The award provides three years of support for junior investigators pursuing an academic career in in clinical, basic, or translational neurological research. Dr. Aparicio received the award for his research proposal \u201cNovel biomarkers to predict cognitive decline and dementia in persons with cerebrovascular disease\u201d.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Dr. Aparicio was named the 2017 Spivack Emerging Leader.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17188,"template":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/alzresearch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/10004"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/alzresearch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/alzresearch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/profile"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/alzresearch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/17188"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/alzresearch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/10004\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10834,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/alzresearch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/10004\/revisions\/10834"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/alzresearch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10004"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}