CBR Seminar Series: Rhoda Au
CBR Seminar Series: Rhoda Au, September 29, 2025
Title: Precision Brain Health: Getting from Here to There
Abstract: Clinical research in Alzheimer’s disease has been slow to embrace the technological advances that could address many long standing representative gaps. This hesitancy has led to more incremental science. Our precision brain health initiative has been pursuing a bold strategic vision that has culminated into an end-to-end solution to help facilitate moving from the science that we are doing to the science we could be doing.
Bio:
Education
I went to Pomona College for my undergraduate degree, then the University of California, Riverside for my Ph.D. in cognitive psychology. Years later I obtained my MBA from BU.
Current Position
Currently, I’m Professor of Anatomy & Neurobiology, Neurology, Medicine and Epidemiology at Boston University Chobanian & Avedisian School of Medicine and School of Public Health and serve as one of PIs of the Framingham Heart Study Brain Aging Program and is Director of Neuropsychology. I have been at BU since 1986, but have also held the position of Acting Director of the VA Medical Research Center in D.C., and had other side projects, such as serving as co-Founder of a non-profit, Athletes Committed to Educating Students.
Areas of Interest
My work centers are using technologies to meet my research objective to enable maximally inclusive solutions that shift the current focus on precision medicine to a broader emphasis on precision brain health.