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Catherine Fortier, Ph.D.

Person: Associate Professor, Harvard Medical School, Psychologist, VA Boston Healthcare System, Deputy Director and Principal Investigator, TRACTS/GRECC

I serve as Deputy Director of the RR&D TBI Center of Excellence at VA Boston Healthcare System (the Translational Center for TBI and Stress Disorders, TRACTS). Our Center is conducting state-of-the-art research studies that aim to understand how mild traumatic brain injury (TBI) and related stress...

Jennifer R. Fonda, Ph.D., M.A.

Person: Epidemiologist, TRACTS

I am the epidemiologist for the Translational Research Center for TBI and Stress Disorders Center (TRACTS) at the VA Boston Healthcare System. I play a central role in the study design and data management of TRACTS. I have 14 years of research experience, with expertise in all aspects of observation...

Colleen B. Hursh, M.S., CRS

Person: Rehabilitation Specialist and Project Coordinator, TRACTS

Colleen has been working for the VA Boston Healthcare System since 2004. She began as a research assistant, after which she became a project coordinator. In 2010, she earned her Master's degree in Rehabilitation Counseling from UMass Boston, and since then, she has been working with the TRACTS...

Laura J. Grande, Ph.D.

Person: Director of Clinical Neuropsychology, Psychology Service at the VA Boston Healthcare System, Assistant Professor of Psychiatry, Boston University School of Medicine, Adjunct Instructor of Psychology (Psychiatry), Harvard Medical School

Laura Grande completed graduate training in Clinical Psychology at the University of Florida. Currently employed as the Director of Clinical Neuropsychology for VABHS. Research interests include neuropsychology of aging, with a specific interest in selective attention and development of clinical...

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Deployment Trauma

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PTSD One project in TRACTS is looking at how experiences during childhood might influence how service members react to stress later in life. Studies have shown that people’s reactions to stress are in part due to how much stress and psychological trauma they were exposed to when they were children...

Alzheimer's Disease

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For each disease, there are multiple risk factors including lifestyle, genetic predisposition, and environment. We at the GNL are interested in understanding how these different factors contribute to cognitive decline in dementia. For this study, we work with participants who are siblings, children...

William Milberg, Ph.D.

Person: GNL Founder and Co-Director, Co-Director TRACTS, Associate Director for Research, New England GRECC, VABHS, Professor of Psychology in the Department of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School

Dr. Milberg is a clinical and research psychologist who founded the Geriatric Neuropsychology laboratory when he became part of the GRECC in 1981. At that time the focus of the lab was on the cognitive consequences of dementia and stroke in older adults, but since that time the laboratory has grown...

Nikki H. Stricker, Ph.D., ABPP/CN

Person: Neuropsychologist at Mayo Clinic

Dr. Nikki Stricker is a staff neuropsychologist within the VA Boston Healthcare System and the Neuropsychology Training Coordinator. She holds an academic appointment as Assistant Professor in Psychiatry at Boston University School of Medicine. Dr. Stricker completed her Ph.D. in 2008 from the San...