LAC Faculty

Deborah Blacker, MD, ScD

LAC Member

Dr. Blacker is Professor of Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School, Professor of Epidemiology at HSPH, Deputy Chair of the Department of Epidemiology at HSPH, and Associate Chief for Research in the Department of Psychiatry at MGH. She is formally trained as a geriatric psychiatrist, psychiatric geneticist and epidemiologist, and currently directs the Gerontology Research Unit and serves as Lead of the Research Education Component (REC) and Co-Lead of the Clinical Core for the MADRC, and Lead of the Analytic (Data) of the long-standing Harvard Aging Brain Study Program Project Grant (PI, Sperling: P01AG036694).

Dr. Blacker’s experience in leadership roles with multiple Cores of NIA Centers and Programs, as well as institutional leadership roles at MGH and Harvard, highlight her superior expertise to serve on the LAC. She will place particular emphasis on directly informing evaluation processes and metrics utilized by the LAC for continuous, rigorous review of the REC.

Teresa Gomez-Isla, MD, PhD

LAC Member

Dr. Gomez-Isla is the Anne Young Associate Professor of Neurology at Harvard Medical School, Director of the MGH Neurology Department’s Memory Disorders Unit and Spanish language Neurology clinics, Lead of the Clinical Core of the MADRC, and Assistant Director of the MADRC.

Dr. Gomez-Isla also plays a pivotal role in the MADRC ORE Core, where she spearheaded unprecedented success in community initiatives, inclusion and surging recruitment among Latino and other minority participants in the Clinical Core’s longitudinal Cohort. She will bring her cross-Core expertise to the LAC and will support the Lead and Associate Director in effective interaction with other Core Leads, especially the Mass-ENVISION CLRC, and will generally advise in overall stewardship activities for the Center. She will take an active role in mentoring junior faculty, as well as participating in REC activities.

Bradley Hyman, MD, PhD

LAC Member

Dr. Hyman is the John Penney Professor of Neurology at Harvard Medical School and Co-Vice Chair for Research in the Neurology Department at MGH. He has been PI of the MADRC since 2006. He is one of the world’s most accomplished scientists in ADRD and has been recognized by countless awards, including the Alzheimer’s Association Zenith Award. Dr. Hyman has an extensive track record of collaboration with the proposed Mass-ENVISION PI and LAC Lead Dr. Okereke as well as multiple other members of the LAC and other Cores of this proposed AD/ADRD RCMAR.

As PI of the MADRC, Dr. Hyman will provide uniquely expert guidance and oversight for the activities of the LAC and its interface with all Cores and the EAC members, and he will help Mass-ENVISION to fulfill its goal of strong cross-collaboration with other NIA Centers, as he regularly communicates, and collaborates with and/or represents MADRC at meetings of the Boston Roybal Center and BU-ADRC.

Alex Keuroghlian, MD, MPH

LAC Member

Dr. Keuroghlian is Associate Professor of Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School; Director, Education and Training Programs at the Fenway Institute; Director, National LGBTQIA+ Health Education Center; Director, MGH Gender Identity Program; Director, Public and Community Psychiatry Curriculum for the MGH/McLean Hospital psychiatry residency program; and Chief, Division of Public and Community Psychiatry in the Department of Psychiatry at MGH. Dr. Keuroghlian is a clinical psychiatrist, educator, researcher and world-renowned expert in mental health conditions affecting sexual and gender minorities, and he/they directs two federally funded centers for sexual and gender minority populations.

Dr. Keuroghlian consistently applies an equity lens across the span of clinical, educational, research and community outreach and engagement work in the Division. Dr. Keuroghlian will support the LAC Lead and team in its coordination with the CLRC and will ensure that LAC and Center overall apply, across all work in the Cores, NIH definitions of diversity and underrepresented populations.