Overview
The Florida Brain Health Consortium, headquartered at the Brain Health Initiative, Inc., in Lakewood Ranch, Florida, is dedicated to enhancing brain health, optimizing brain performance, and preventing brain illness for all ages at the individual and population level throughout Florida and beyond. The Florida Brain Health Consortium is a collaboration of an esteemed, interdisciplinary team of individuals and institutions to conduct population-and cohort-based brain health studies, including “big data” research and community interventions.
Current consortium members:
- Michael Jaffee, MD, Professor and Vice Chair Department of Neurology, University of Florida College of Medicine
- Barbara Coffey, MD, MS, Professor and Chairman, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, University of Miami Miller School of Medicine
- Shelley Carson, PhD, Director of Education and Training, Brain Health Initiative, Harvard University Department of Psychology
- Ana-Maria Vranceanu, PhD, Associate Professor of Psychology, Harvard Medical School, Founding Director, Integrated Brain Health Clinical and Research Program, Department of Psychiatry, Massachusetts General Hospital, Faculty, Brain Health Initiative
- Ranjan Duara, Medical Director, Wien Center for Alzheimer’s Disease and Memory Disorders at Mount Sinai Medical Center
- Mark Kauffman, D.O., P.A., MS Ed, Associate Dean of Academic Affairs, Lake Erie College of Osteopathic Medicine
- Kirk G. Voelker MD, Director of Clinical Research, Sarasota Memorial Hospital, Assistant Professor of Medicine, Florida State University College of Medicine
- Kathy Black, Ph.D., M.P.H., M.S.G. Professor, School of Aging Studies, College of Behavioral & Community Sciences, Affiliate Professor, College of Public Health, University of South Florida, Sarasota
- Robert A. Hauser MD, MBA, Professor of Neurology, Director, University of South Florida Parkinson’s Disease and Movement Disorders Center, USF, College of Medicine
- Stephanie Peabody, PsyD, HSPP, Neuropsychologist, Executive Director, Brain Health Initiative
- Jennifer Bencie, MD, MSA, County Health Officer, Florida Department of Health Manatee County
- Carla VandeWeerd, PhD, Director, University of Florida Health Precision Health Research Center – The Villages, Associate Professor, Health Outcomes and Biomedical Informatics, College of Medicine, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL
- Rosie Curel, PsyD, Associate Professor Chief, Cross-Cultural Neuropsychology and Cognitive Neuroscience Center for Cognitive Neuroscience and Aging Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, 1Florida Alzheimer’s Disease Research Center, University of Miami Miller School of Medicine
- David Loewenstein, PhD, ABPP/CN, Director Center for Cognitive Neuroscience and Aging Scientific Advisory Board Member, Evelyn F. McKnight Brain Institute, Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, University of Miami Miller School of Medicine
- Elizabeth A Crocco, MD, Geriatric Psychiatry and Memory Disorders in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine