Yakeel T. Quiroz, PhD
Director, Multicultural Assessment and Research Center, MARC
Director, Multicultural Alzheimer's Prevention Program, MAPP
Associate Professor, Harvard Medical School
Massachusetts General Hospital
Dr. Quiroz is Associate Professor in the Departments of Psychiatry and Neurology at Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School. She is the Director of the Multicultural Alzheimer's Prevention Program (MAPP) and the Familial Dementia Neuroimaging Lab, where she leads several research studies on aging, Alzheimer's disease and other dementias. She also serves as Director of the Multicultural Assessment and Research Center-MARC. She is the Principal Investigator of the Colombia-Boston (COLBOS) Longitudinal Biomarker Study, which follows a Colombian family with autosomal dominant Alzheimer's disease, and the Principal Investigator of the Boston Latino Aging Study (BLAST), which follows older Latinos living in Massachusetts.
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Publications
Major Research Interests: Sex Differences in Alzheimer's disease, Early onset dementi & the study of cognitive and brain changes that may predispose individuals to develop dementia later in life.
Clara Vila-Castelar,Pierre N. Tariot,Kaycee M. Sink,David Clayton,Jessica B. Langbaum,Ronald G. Thomas,Yinghua Chen,Yi Su,Kewei Chen,Nan Hu,Margarita Giraldo-Chica.Sex differences in cognitive resilience in preclinical autosomal-dominant Alzheimer's disease carriers and non-carriers: Baseline findings from the API ADAD Colombia Trial.First published: 01 February 2022 https://doi.org/10.1002/alz.12552.
Mielke MM, Aggarwal NT, Vila-Castelar C, Agarwal P, Arenaza-Urquijo EM, Brett B, Brugulat-Serrat A, DuBose LE, Eikelboom WS, Flatt J, Foldi NS, Franzen S, Gilsanz P, Li W, McManus AJ, van Lent DM, Milani SA, Shaaban CE, Stites SD, Sundermann E, Suryadevara V, Trani JF, Turner AD, Vonk JMJ, Quiroz YT, Babulal GM; Diversity and Disparity Professional Interest Area Sex and Gender Special Interest Group. Consideration of sex and gender in Alzheimer's disease and related disorders from a global perspective. Alzheimers Dement. 2022 Apr 8. doi: 10.1002/alz.12662. Online ahead of print. PMID: 35394117
Raman R, Quiroz YT, Langford O, Choi J, Ritchie M, Baumgartner M, Rentz D, Aggarwal NT, Aisen P, Sperling R, Grill JD. Disparities by Race and Ethnicity Among Adults Recruited for a Preclinical Alzheimer Disease Trial. JAMA Netw Open. 2021 Jul 1;4(7):e2114364. doi: 10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2021.14364. PMID: 34228129
Fox-Fuller JT, Artola A, Chen K, Pulsifer M, Ramirez D, Londono N, Aguirre-Acevedo DC, Vila-Castelar C, Baena A, Martinez J, Arboleda-Velasquez JF, Langbaum JB, Tariot PN, Reiman EM, Lopera F, Quiroz YT. Sex Differences in Cognitive Abilities Among Children With the Autosomal Dominant Alzheimer Disease Presenilin 1 E280A Variant From a Colombian Cohort. JAMA Netw Open. 2021 Aug 2;4(8):e2121697. doi: 10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2021.21697. PMID: 34463747.
Examining Sex Differences in Markers of Cognition and Neurodegeneration in Autosomal Dominant Alzheimer's Disease: Preliminary Findings from the Colombian Alzheimer's Prevention Initiative Biomarker Study. Vila-Castelar C, Guzmán-Vélez E, Pardilla-Delgado E, Buckley RF, Bocanegra Y, Baena A, Fox-Fuller JT, Tirado V, Muñoz C, Giraldo M, Acosta-Baena N, Rios-Romenets S, Langbaum JB, Tariot PN, Lopera F, Reiman EM, Quiroz YT. J Alzheimers Dis. 2020;77(4):1743-1753. doi: 10.3233/JAD-200723. PMID: 32925067