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Olivia I. Okereke, MD, MS (she/her/hers)

Director, Geriatric Psychiatry; Director, MGH Psychiatry Center for Racial Equity and Justice
Massachusetts General Hospital
Boston, Massachusetts, United States

Dr. Olivia I. Okereke is Terry and Jean de Gunzburg MGH Research Scholar 2021-2026, Associate Professor of Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School, and Associate Professor in the Department of Epidemiology at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. She is Director of Geriatric Psychiatry and Director of the MGH Psychiatry Center for Racial Equity and Justice in the Department of Psychiatry at Massachusetts General Hospital.

For over 15 years, she has been an NIH-funded investigator focusing on modifiable risk factors and prevention of adverse mental aging, including late-life depression, cognitive decline, and dementia, and reduction of health disparities in aging. She is Overall PD/PI of the NIA-funded Resource Center for Minority Aging Research (RCMAR), Mass-ENVISION. She has led work that has appeared in such journals as JAMA, JAMA network journals, Annals of Neurology, Journal of Clinical Psychiatry, and the American Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry. She has published over 150 peer-reviewed papers.

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