Dr. Willoughby is Assistant Professor of Research in the Departments
of Internal Medicine in the School of Medicine at Saint Louis
University. She earned her Ph.D. from Saint Louis University in
2002, specializing in Experimental Psychology with an emphasis
in aging and cognition. She completed postdoctoral training at
the Nathan S. Kline Institute for Psychiatric Research in the
Geriatric Psychiatry Research program, where she studied the adverse
cognitive effects of pharmaceutical agents in healthy older adults,
received advanced training with psychological research using MRI
technology, and helped to initiate the Memory and Education Research
Initiative (MERI) program, which provided free memory evaluations
to Rockland County, New York citizens and served as an epidemiological
research tool to address the growing need of county-wide services
for cognitively impaired older adults. Her current research interests
are broad and include examination of risks associated with developing
dementia, polypharmacy among patients with dementia, normal and
abnormal cognitive changes in older adults, and aging and end-stage
renal disease.
Education
PhD- Saint Louis University
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