Kristine Yaffe

Kristine Yaffe is an American Cognitive decline and dementia researcher. She is the Scola Endowed Chair and Vice Chair and Professor of Psychiatry, Neurology and Epidemiology and the Director of the Center for Population Brain Health at the University of California, San Francisco.

Kristine Yaffe, MD
Alma materYale University
University of Pennsylvania
University of California, San Francisco
OccupationProfessor at UCSF School of Medicine
Known forCognitive decline and dementia research
Websiteprofiles.ucsf.edu/kristine.yaffe

Awards and Honors

Yaffe has received numerous awards including the American Academy of Neurology Potamkin Prize for Research in Pick's, Alzheimer's, and Related Diseases, a prestigious honor considered to be the Nobel Prize of Alzheimer's research.[1] In 2013, Dr. Yaffe received the UCSF Academic Senate Award for Best Faculty Research.[2] The following year, Yaffe was recognized as one of Thomson Reuters World's Most Influential Scientific Minds and received the Distinguished Scientist Award from the American Association for Geriatric Psychiatry.[3][4] In 2017, Dr. Yaffe gave testimony to the United States Senate's Special Committee on Aging for the hearing: “The Arc of Alzheimer's: From Preventing Cognitive Decline in Americans to Assuring Quality Care for those Living with the Disease.”[5]

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References
  1. "Yaffe awarded $100,000 Potamkin Prize for dementia research | UCSF Department of Psychiatry". psych.ucsf.edu. Retrieved 2017-09-07.
  2. "Eight Win Prestigious Academic Senate Awards". UC San Francisco. Retrieved 2017-09-07.
  3. Science, Thomson Reuters IP &. "Thomson Reuters Announces the World's Most Influential Scientific Minds". www.prnewswire.com. Retrieved 2017-09-07.CS1 maint: extra punctuation (link)
  4. "American Association for Geriatric Psychiatry - Congratulations to AAGP's 2014 Award Winners!". www.aagponline.org. Retrieved 2017-09-07.
  5. "Yaffe tells Senate committee continued NIH funding is 'critical' for Alzheimer's research | UCSF Department of Psychiatry". psych.ucsf.edu. Retrieved 2017-09-07.
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