Katherine A. Gifford, PsyD

Katherine A. Gifford, PsyD, is a clinical neuropsychologist and an Associate Professor of Anatomy and Neurobiology in the Chobanian & Avedisian School of Medicine. She is an Investigator in the Precision Brain Health Initiative and the Framingham Heart Study- Brain Aging Program. Dr. Gifford’s research focuses on disorders of aging, dementia, and developing tools for early detection of cognitive impairment. Her research incudes a specific emphasis on understanding subjective cognitive decline in older adults, or when people start to notice changes in their own memory and thinking. Work from her team has included the creation of a new tool to assess subjective cognitive decline that has been validated against multi-modal markers of Alzheimer’s disease. She is involved in independent and collaborative research projects that improve early identification of unhealthy aging, clinical phenotyping of abnormal brain aging (i.e., Alzheimer’s disease and related disorder), and health care education to improve primary care management of dementias.

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