Dr. Cohen is an Associate Professor of Psychiatry with Tenure at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine. She is also the Director of the Neuroimaging Core of the University of Pittsburgh Alzheimer’s Disease Research Center, Director of Collaborative Clinical Studies in Alzheimer’s Disease and Related Dementias, and the co-Director of the Molecular Biomarkers in Psychiatry Program. Dr. Cohen is also the lead of the recruitment team on the Alzheimer’s disease Biomarker Consortium- Down Syndrome (ABC-DS), is co-lead of the outreach and recruitment team for the Autism Center of Excellence at the University of Pittsburgh, and is the PI of multiple NIA funded studies focusing on neuroimaging in aging and Alzheimer’s disease. Dr. Cohen earned her PhD in Neuroscience from the University of Pittsburgh in 2006 and completed a postdoctoral fellowship at Western Psychiatric Institute and Clinic at UPMC in 2011. Dr. Cohen served as a steering committee member for the Neuroimaging Professional Interest area of the Alzheimer’s Association International Society to Advance Alzheimer’s Research and Treatment (ISTAART) from 2015 to 2019 and was a member of the ISTAART advisory council from 2020-2023. She now serves as co-chair of the National Institute on Aging Steering Committee for ADRC Neuroimaging Cores. Her primary research interests focus on using imaging to explore early detection of Alzheimer’s disease and the relationship of social determinants of health to risk and resilience to brain aging and Alzheimer’s disease and optimizing investigations of neurological conditions within underserved populations to address health disparities.