Neuropsychology
Staff
David P. Salmon,
Ph.D.
Associate Professor in Residence in the Department
of Neurosciences and Co-Director of the Clinical
Core of the ADRC. Dr. Salmon received his Ph.D. in
Biopsychology from Rutgers University in 1984 and
completed post-doctoral training in Animal and Human
Neuropsychology at UCSD in 1986. He has been
affiliated with the ADRC since 1985. His research
focuses on the neural basis of memory and cognition
examined through the psychological and neurological
analysis of the cognitive deficits associated with
diverse dementing disorders.
Guerry M. Peavy, Ph.D.,
is a licensed
neuropsychologist and faculty member of the UCSD
Department of Neurosciences. She obtained her Ph.D. in
Clinical Psychology from the University of Connecticut
and has worked at the ADRC since 1990. Her research has
focused on cognitive functioning in patients with
Alzheimer's disease. She initially studied patients in
severe stages of dementia, and is currently examining
the effects of chronic psychological stress on the
development of Alzheimer's disease. Of particular
interest are those subjects who are already experiencing
some memory loss but are otherwise functioning normally
(MCI).
Cecily Jenkins, Ph.D., is
a licensed neuropsychologist who received her doctorate
in Clinical Psychology from Clark University in 1999.
She completed her internship and post-doctoral training
at UCSD and has been employed in UCSD’s Alzheimer’s
Research Center since 1995, first serving as a
psychometrist and then as a post-graduate researcher and
co-facilitator of the support group for early stage
Alzheimer’s patients. She is now Project Director of
the center’s Memory in Aging Project (MAP), a focused
recruitment initiative geared toward increasing research
involvement of seniors experiencing Mild Cognitive
Impairment (MCI).
Tamar H. Gollan, Ph.D.,
Assistant Adjunct
Professor in the Department of Psychiatry at UCSD. Dr.
Gollan investigates how bilingualism affects cognitive
functioning by working primarily with the Hispanic
Cohort at the ADRC. Dr. Gollan is a life-long
Hebrew-English bilingual and is also fluent in Spanish.
Dr. Gollan received her Ph.D. in clinical and cognitive
neuropsychology from the University of Arizona. She is a
faculty member of the UCSD/SDSU Joint Doctoral Program
in Clinical Psychology, and also mentors undergraduate
research as part of the Faculty Mentor Program and the
McNair Program for students who are underrepresented in
graduate education. Dr. Gollan’s research is funded by a
Career Development Award (K23) from NIDCD/NIH.
Eileen da Pena, PsyD.,
received her B.A. in Psychology from UCSB in 1994, and
her M.A. in Psychology and PsyD. at CSPP. Eileen is a
Panama native who arrived in the United States in 1991.
Bilingual and bicultural, she is a part-time
psychometrist for the Hispanic component of the ADRC.
Bernadette
Di Toro, M.S.,
received her B.A. in Psychology with a minor in Health
and Human Development from Lehigh University in 2001,
and her M.S. in Gerontology from SDSU in 2006.
Bernadette has joined us as a Psychometrist and
a Research Associate.
Sandra Jerkins, B.S.,
received her B.S. in Psychology from UCSD in 1998. She
has since worked as part-time psychometrist for our
longitudinal study and is currently involved in the
Memory in Aging Project.
Rosa Montoya
received her B.A. in Human Development from UCSD in 2002, same year she
joined the ADRC. Rosa was born in Mexicali and has been
in the States since she was two years old. She utilizes
her excellent Spanish language skills as a part-time
psychometrist for the Hispanic component.
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