LEAD Network Leadership Team
Our team includes investigators from multiple disciplines, all with a strong track record of high-impact, collaborative research and transdisciplinary leadership expertise. Their work has examined AD/ADRD care delivery and caregiving, resilience, geriatrics/aging, neuroscience, speech-language pathology and communication sciences, measurement science, and biostatistics.
The LEAD Network organizational structure includes the following teams:
Executive Committee, Measurement and Data Core, Training and Engagement Core, Scientific Review Panel, External Advisory Committee
Executive Committee
Andrea Gilmore-Bykovskyi, PhD, RN
University of Wisconsin School of Medicine & Public Health
Joan Griffin, PhD
Mayo Clinic College of Medicine
Jeanne Teresi, EdD, PhD
Columbia University Irving Medical Center
Kimberly D. Mueller, PhD, CCC-SLP
University of Wisconsin-Madison
Heather E. Whitson, MD, MHS
Duke University School of Medicine
Measurement and Data Core
Jeanne Teresi, EdD, PhD
Columbia University Irving Medical Center
David Cella, PhD
Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine
Heather Allore, PhD
Yale School of Medicine and School of Public Health
Training and Engagement Core
Kimberly D. Mueller, PhD, CCC-SLP
University of Wisconsin-Madison
Heather E. Whitson, MD, MHS
Duke University School of Medicine
Scientific Review Panel
Kishore Kuchibhotla, PhD
Johns Hopkins University
Sam Parnia, MD, PhD
NYU Langone
Heather Allore, PhD
Yale School of Medicine and School of Public Health
External Advisory Committee
Odette van der Willik
American Federation for Aging Research
Susan L. Mitchell, MD, MPH
Harvard Medical School
Lori Frank, PhD
National Alliance for Caregiving
Michael Nahm, PhD
Institute for Frontier Areas of Psychology and Mental Health