Challenges and Opportunities in Exposome Studies of Alzheimer’s Disease and Related Dementias

Date: Monday, October 19, 2026
Time: 12 – 1:15 pm
Location: Hybrid, Live Only.

In-person: Yawkey Center for Student Services, 100 Bay State Road, Room 613B in Boston

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“Challenges and Opportunities in Exposome Studies of Alzheimer’s Disease and Related Dementias” with Speaker Marcia Pescador Jimenez, Marcia Pescador Jimenez, PhD, MS, MA. Associate Professor, Department of Epidemiology, BUSPH

Speaker Bio: Marcia Pescador Jimenez is an Associate Professor at the Epidemiology Department at the Boston University School of Public Health. She has a multidisciplinary research portfolio that includes environmental epidemiology, life-course analysis, health disparities, and aging. Her work focuses on novel metrics of environmental exposures using Deep Learning Algorithms and Street View images to examine environmental determinants of Alzheimer’s Disease and related dementias (ADRD). She is the PI of two R01s from the NIH, and an Alzheimer’s Association Research Grant to examine the impact of the combination of multiple environmental exposures on ADRD risk factors in a multi-cohort study.