Event Description
12:00 - 1:15 p.m. ET
BU PopSci Seminar Series presents Marcia Pescador Jimenez, Associate Professor at the Epidemiology Department at the Boston University School of Public Health. She has a multidisciplinary research portfolio that includes environmental epidemiology, life-course analysis, health disparities, and aging. Her work focuses on novel metrics of environmental exposures using Deep Learning Algorithms and Street View images to examine environmental determinants of Alzheimer’s Disease and related dementias (ADRD). She is the PI of two R01s from the NIH, and an Alzheimer’s Association Research Grant to examine the impact of the combination of multiple environmental exposures on ADRD risk factors in a multi-cohort study.