Lisa Mosconi

Dr. Lisa Mosconi, PhD, is associate professor of Neuroscience in Neurology and Radiology at Weill Cornell Medicine/NY-Presbyterian Hospital, where she serves as director of the Alzheimer’s Prevention Program at Weill Cornell Medicine, which includes the National Institute of Health (NIH)-funded Women’s Brain Initiative, the award-winning Alzheimer’s Prevention Clinic, and the Alzheimer’s Prevention Clinical Trials Unit. Previously, she was a faculty member at New York University (NYU) School of Medicine. Dr. Mosconi currently serves as Program Director of ‘CARE – Cutting Alzheimer’s Risk through Endocrinology’ at Wellcome Leap, working directly with Dr. Regina Dugan, the former director of DARPA and Wellcome Leap CEO. Dr. Mosconi ranks in the top 1% of scientists of the past two decades by official metrics.

Recognized by The Times as one of the 17 most influential living female scientists and has been praised as “the Mona Lisa of Neuroscience” by ELLE International. She is the second female neuroscientist to deliver a formal speech at an official White House policy event. She is the author of New York Times bestselling The Menopause Brain, The XX Brain, and Brain Food.

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