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Roee Holtzer, PhD Assistant Professor of Psychology Ferkauf and Neurology Albert Einstein College of Medicine Dr. Roee Holtzer is an assistant professor in the Department of Neurology at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine and at the Ferkauf Graduate School of Psychology of Yeshiva University. He is also the director of neuropsychology training in the school of Psychology. Dr. Holtzer has a general interest in cognitive, emotional, and motor aging. His current research integrates clinical neuropsychology, cognitive neurosciences, and genetics to explore mechanisms of gait and falls in older adults. The long-term goal of this research is to develop more effective risk assessment and prevention programs for falls, which have typically focused on balance, strength, and gait but not cognitive function. Based on his research, Holtzer believes that cognitive and neuropsychological performance, plus gait, could factor into risk assessment and intervention design. What’s more, cognitive rehabilitation and/or medication targeting cognitive functions, such as executive control and memory, might reduce the risk of falling in people at risk. Dr. Holtzer received his PhD in clinical psychology from State University of New York at Binghamton. He completed a clinical internship at the Rusk Institute at NYU in clinical neuropsychology and cognitive rehabilitation, and a post-doctoral fellowship at the Columbia University’s Taub Institute for the Study of Alzheimer’s Disease and the Aging Brain.

Primary Research (for Beeson Program): Predictors of Gait and Falls in Aging; Linking Cognitive Control to Genes