Michelle Chen, PhD

Dr. Michelle Chen is a neuropsychologist, with a PhD in Clinical Psychology (with neuropsychology concentration and health emphasis) from Yeshiva University and postdoctoral training at Kessler Foundation. Her research involves utilizing digital and sensor technology in the assessment and treatment of cognitive dysfunction and other neurological symptoms. She is the recipient of a K23 Mentored Career Development Award funded by the National Institutes of Health (NIH), studying the impact of health and lifestyle risk factors for cognitive decline among persons with MS. Her long-term goal in this line of research is to develop digital lifestyle interventions aimed at improving cognition. As a clinician, Dr. Chen is deeply concerned about health disparities and inequities as well as lack of representation of racially and culturally diverse populations in biomedical research. Thus, she is starting to steer research toward these areas. She was selected as a health equity scholar for the Alzheimer’s Disease Neuroimaging Initiative (ADNI). The current RCASIA pilot project will help her extend her research into older U.S. Chinese adults, an understudied population in cognitive health research.