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Shana Stites, PsyD, MA, MS (they/them/theirs)

Assistant Professor
University of Pennsylvania
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States

Shana D. Stites, PsyD, MA, MS, is an assistant professor in the Department of Psychiatry at the University of Pennsylvania. Dr. Stites’ research focuses on advancing diagnosis and treatment of Alzheimer’s disease with the goal of understanding ways to promote wellbeing. This includes understanding the impacts of the disease on individuals who may be directly affected by pathology as well as their family members. As part of this work, Dr Stites focuses on characterizing how early disease affects social, psychological, and cognitive facets of subjective experience and how aspects of identity, such as age, gender, and race, operate as social and structural determinants in the disease experience. Understanding these features of the disease experience may offer insights into early disease effects and into development of interventions that help limit burdens of the disease.

Dr Stites research integrates a range of empirical approaches to examine social and psychological experiences relevant to preclinical and early Alzheimer’s disease. This includes computer-based experiments, serial studies using existing data sets, such clinical trial data and Health and Retirement Study (HRS) data, and mixed methods studies that combine data from qualitative interviews and archival analyses with results from qualitative analyses.

Dr. Stites is a graduate of the National Institute on Aging’s (NIA’s) Butler-Williams Scholars Program, has a master’s of arts in sociology from Lehigh University, and earned a doctorate in clinical psychology from Chestnut Hill College with a concentration in psychological assessment and special focus on the role of multicultural diversity in clinical practice and representation in research. Dr. Stites clinical training includes completion of a doctoral internship at Corporal Michael J. Crescenz VA Medical Center in Philadelphia, PA and post-doctoral training in the Penn Memory Center and Department of Neurology at the University of Pennsylvania’s Perelman School of Medicine.

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