Alejandra Morlett-Paredes, PhD, a native of Tijuana, Baja California, is an Assistant Adjunct Professor in the Neurosciences department at the University of California San Diego (UCSD). She is a co-investigator in the Study of Latinos-Investigation of Neurocognitive Aging (SOL-INCA) lab and associated with the Shiley-Marcos Alzheimer’s Disease Research Center (SMADRC). Her work is focused on understanding the barriers and attitudes of older Latinos towards participating in Alzheimer’s Disease research, specifically research that requires invasive procedures (e.g., lumbar punctures, PET scans) and brain autopsies. Dr. Morlett received her PhD in health psychology from Virginia Commonwealth University, completed a 2-year NIMH T32 research fellowship in geriatric mental health at UCSD and a three-year post-doc in Dr. Hector M. González SOL-INCA lab. Dr. Morlett has been involved in various efforts to develop normative data for a number of neuropsychological tests in Spanish-Speaking adults living in the US and Latin America.
Department of Neurosciences, University of California San Diego, Shiley-Marcos Alzheimer’s Disease Research Center