Jul 27, 2021 By: yunews
Dr. Roee Holtzer, professor at Ferkauf Graduate School of Psychology and in the Department of Neurology at Albert Einstein College of Medicine, is also director of the Ph.D. Program in Clinical Psychology/Health Emphasis. In his lab, his students focus on discovering the predictors and mechanisms of age- and disease-related impairments in cognition and functional abilities that are of clinical and public health import. “Specifically, our research centers on the intersection of the brain, cognitive, psychological, and physical health,” said Dr. Holtzer. “For instance, walking performance, a robust proxy of health, as well as falls, which represent a failure in mobility adaptation, both serve as primary and secondary outcomes on numerous clinical trials. Hence, our research efforts aim to identify potentially modifiable cognitive and brain predictors of gait performance and decline as well as more broadly defined measures of mobility impairments and disability in aging and disease populations.” (Read a more detailed profile of the work that the lab is doing.)
Dr. Holtzer also provides his students with guidance and inspiration to develop, carry out and ultimately publish in mainstream peer-reviewed journals empirical pre-doctoral and dissertation research projects. “To accomplish these objectives,” said Dr. Holtzer, “students are trained in all clinical and experimental procedures used in the lab. They are fully integrated, as key personnel, into our studies and are given access to databases of both completed and ongoing research studies. Research projects in the lab have been continuously funded by a number of agencies, primarily NIH, during the last 15 years.”
Meet seven of Dr. Holtzer’s students who have recently published and learn more about the important work they are doing: Hannah Pakray Darwazah, Daliah Ross, Jennifer Lee, Sydney Jacobs, Rebecca Kraut, Catherine O’Brien and Giulia Mercuri.
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