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Lisa Barnes, PhD, FGSA (she/her/hers)

Professor and Associate Director
Rush University Medical Center
Chicago, Illinois, United States

Lisa L. Barnes, PhD is the Alla V. and Solomon Jesmer Professor of Gerontology and Geriatric Medicine and a cognitive neuropsychologist within the Rush Alzheimer’s Disease Center at Rush University Medical Center. She is also the Associate Director of the Rush Alzheimer’s Disease Research Center. Her research interests include disparities in chronic diseases of aging, cognitive decline, and risk factors for Alzheimer’s disease. She is the Principal Investigator of the Minority Aging Research Study (MARS), which has been funded by NIA since 2004, and the Clinical Core Leader for the Rush ADRC. She is an MPI for the National RCMAR Coordinating Center, and PI or co-Investigator for several other grants that focus on health equity and aging..She has extensive experience mentoring junior scholars under-represented in medicine including sponsoring K-series fellows, and junior faculty with diversity supplements, small pilot grants, and investigator-initiated foundation awards. She is internationally recognized for her contributions to minority aging and has published over 300 peer-reviewed manuscripts.

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