Astrid Suchy-Dicey, PhD

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Associate Professor, Director Clinical Neurosciences, and Principal Investigator of the Brain Aging Study at Huntington Medical Research Institutes

Dr. Astrid Suchy-Dicey is an Associate Professor, Director Clinical Neurosciences, and Principal Investigator of the Brain Aging Study at Huntington Medical Research Institutes. She was previously an Assistant Professor in the Elson S. Floyd School of Medicine and IREACH at WSU. Trained as an epidemiologist and biostatistician, her educational background includes a PhD from the University of Washington School of Public Health with a focus on Epidemiology and Public Health Genetics, a MS from the University of Washington School of Public Health, and a BS from Smith College in History and Biology. She also has a background in cardiovascular and neurological pathology and molecular biology. Her current research interests include resilience, stress, social support, identity, cognition, imaging, biomarkers, and Alzheimer’s disease and related dementias. She has more than 10 years of experience working with large, longitudinal cohort studies, including the Cardiovascular Health Study, the Seattle Kidney Study, and the Strong Heart Study, with a focus on cardiovascular, renal, and genetic epidemiology. Astrid is a member of the IREACH Methods Core; Chair of the IREACH Publications and Presentations committee; a member of the Biostatistics and Methodology Core at Providence Medical Research Center in Spokane; a junior faculty seed grant awardee of the Health Equity Research Collaborative at Washington State University; a methods mentor for the Native Investigator Development Program; and a voting member of the WSU Institutional Review Board Biomedical Committee. In her free time, Astrid can be found rowing crew on Lake Union, learning to bake artisanal bread, or running through the grassy fields with her Great Dane at one of Seattle’s many beautiful city parks.

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