Optimal Aging Institute
Optimal Aging Institute Team
Optimal Aging Institute Team
Leadership
Josef Coresh, MD, PhD
Professor & Founding Director
Shoshana H. Ballew, PhD
Associate Professor & Assistant Director for Research Management and Integration
Joshua Chodosh, MD
Professor & Deputy Director of Clinical Translation
Kevin Da Silva, PhD
Executive Director
Faculty
Nicholas S. Reed, PhD
Associate Professor, Department of Otolaryngology—Head & Neck Surgery
Jordan Weiss, PhD
Assistant Professor, Department of Medicine
Jennifer M. Reckrey, MD
Associate Professor, Department of Medicine
Affiliated Faculty
Miriam A. Bredella, MD, MBA
Professor & Director, Clinical and Translational Science Institute
Yu Chen, MPH, PhD
Professor, Department of Population Health
John A. Dodson, MD, MPH
Associate Professor, Department of Medicine
Gilad D. Evrony, MD, PhD
Assistant Professor, Center for Human Genetics & Genomics
Els D. Fieremans, PhD
Associate Professor, Department of Radiology
Chiara Giannarelli, MD, PhD
Associate Professor, Department of Medicine
Morgan Grams, MD, PhD
Professor & Co-Director, Division of Precision Medicine
Philipp Leucht, MD, PhD
Associate Professor, Department of Orthopedic Surgery
Shane A. Liddelow, PhD
Associate Professor, Department of Neuroscience and Physiology
Mara A. McAdams DeMarco, PhD
Associate Professor, Department of Surgery
Michal L. Melamed, MD
Professor, Department of Medicine
Olugbenga G. Ogedegbe, MD, MPH
Professor & Director, Institute for Excellence in Health Equity
Ricardo M. Osorio Suarez, MD
Associate Professor, Department of Psychiatry
Ravichandran Ramasamy, PhD
Professor, Department of Medicine
Narges Razavian, PhD
Assistant Professor, Department of Population Health
Heidi Schambra, MD
Associate Professor, Department of Neurology
Antoinette M. Schoenthaler, EdD
Professor, Department of Population Health
Scott E. Sherman, MD
Professor, Department of Medicine
Lorna E. Thorpe, MPH, PhD
Professor & Chair, Department of Population Health
Jelle Veraart, PhD
Assistant Professor, Department of Radiology
Thomas M. Wisniewski, MD
Professor, Department of Neurology
Staff
William Gonzalez Jr.
Administrative Coordinator
Yang Li, PhD
Bioinformatician
Amyn Majbri, BS
Data Analyst
James Pike, MBA
Research Scientist
Yingying Sang, MS
Research Scientist
Xinyi (Emily) Zhang, BS
PhD Student
