Leaders in Research
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| Joe Verghese, MD Associate Professor of Neurology; Director, Division of Cognitive and Motor Aging Albert Einstein College of Medicine
Dr. Verghese graduated from St. Johns Medical College, Bangalore, India. He then completed postgraduate training in internal medicine and neurology in the United Kingdom. Dr. Verghese completed his neurology residency in 1998, and fellowship training in neurophysiology, as well as aging and dementia, in 1999, at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine. In 2001, he received a Master of Science degree in clinical research methods. | |
| Primary Research (for Beeson Program): Latent Mobility Abnormalities and Disability
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Dr. Verghese's research interest is the effects of disease and aging on mobility
and cognition in older adults, and he has had several publications in this area.
His current projects include studying the influence of cognitively stimulating
activities on reducing risk of dementia and the role of divided attention tasks
such as walking while talking in predicting disability and cognitive decline.
Dr. Verghese is Clinical Director of the Einstein Aging Study, a NIH funded longitudinal
aging study, and he was a recipient of a K-12 institutional training award prior
to receiving the Beeson award.