In this week’s Scientist Highlights we feature Cleopatra M. Abdou-Kamperveen, PhD, who became a CHIME scientist in 2015. Dr. Abdou-Kamperveen is an Assistant Professor of Gerontology and of Psychology in The Leonard Davis School of Gerontology, University of Southern California. She received a Master of Arts degree and a Doctorate of Philosophy from the UCLA Department of Psychology, and was a Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Health and Society Scholar at the University of Michigan (UM), Ann Arbor, MI. Dr. Abdou-Kamperveen’s interdisciplinary program integrates psychology, human development and aging, public health, and medicine to better understand lifespan and intergenerational health disparities, with special emphasis on women’s health.

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