Beeson Career Development Awards in Aging Research: Dr. Cynthia M. Carlsson

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Cynthia M. Carlsson, MD
Assistant Professor of Medicine
Section of Geriatrics and Gerotology
University of Wisconsin Medical School
The goal of Dr. Carlsson's research is to understand the effects of vascular risk factors and their treatments on the development and progression of Alzheimer's disease (AD). As part of her Beeson Career Development Award, she is currently conducting a randomized clinical trial to evaluate how treatment with the cholesterol-lowering medications called statins affect blood, spinal fluid, cognitive, and MRI perfusion biomarkers for AD in asymptomatic middle-aged adults at risk for the disease. For her investigations into potential preventive therapies, she works closely with participants from the Wisconsin Registry for Alzheimer's Prevention (WRAP), a statewide registry of middle-aged adult children of persons with AD. Her future research will focus on whether improvements in peripheral and cerebral perfusion measures translate into a reduced risk for AD.

Through her work in the VA Memory Assessment Clinic, Dr. Carlsson has developed a curriculum to train students, residents, and fellows in the interdisciplinary team care of patients with dementia. Through this clinic, she has worked to integrate research and education into clinical practice. She is a member of the American Geriatrics Society Special Interest Group on Clinical Research in Dementia, leading an effort to increase the presence of Geriatric Medicine in clinical research of AD and related disorders.

Dr. Carlsson is assistant professor of medicine in the Section of Geriatrics and Gerontology at the University of Wisconsin (UW) School of Medicine and Public Health in Madison, WI. She also serves as the Medical Director of the Memory Assessment Clinic at the William S. Middleton Veterans Memorial Hospital. Dr. Carlsson attended the University of Michigan Medical School and received her MD degree in 1995. Following her residency and chief residency in internal medicine, she completed fellowships in geriatrics and older women's health at the University of Wisconsin Hospitals and Clinics and the William S. Middleton Veterans Memorial Hospital. She joined the faculty of the UW Section of Geriatrics in 2003. Her additional research training includes a Certificate of Training in the UW Clinical Investigator Preparatory Program (CIPP) (NIH K30) and a Master's Degree in Population Health Sciences from UW School of Medicine and Public Health in 2005.

Primary Research (for Beeson Program):
Effect of Statins on Pathobiology of Alzheimer's Disease

Cynthia M. Carlsson, MD Assistant Professor of Medicine Section of Geriatrics and Gerotology University of Wisconsin Medical School The goal of Dr. Carlsson's research is to understand the effects of vascular risk factors and their treatments on the development and progression of Alzheimer's disease (AD). As part of her Beeson Career Development Award, she is currently conducting a randomized clinical trial to evaluate how treatment with the cholesterol-lowering medications called statins affect blood, spinal fluid, cognitive, and MRI perfusion biomarkers for AD in asymptomatic middle-aged adults at risk for the disease. For her investigations into potential preventive therapies, she works closely with participants from the Wisconsin Registry for Alzheimer's Prevention (WRAP), a statewide registry of middle-aged adult children of persons with AD. Her future research will focus on whether improvements in peripheral and cerebral perfusion measures translate into a reduced risk for AD. Through her work in the VA Memory Assessment Clinic, Dr. Carlsson has developed a curriculum to train students, residents, and fellows in the interdisciplinary team care of patients with dementia. Through this clinic, she has worked to integrate research and education into clinical practice. She is a member of the American Geriatrics Society Special Interest Group on Clinical Research in Dementia, leading an effort to increase the presence of Geriatric Medicine in clinical research of AD and related disorders. Dr. Carlsson is assistant professor of medicine in the Section of Geriatrics and Gerontology at the University of Wisconsin (UW) School of Medicine and Public Health in Madison, WI. She also serves as the Medical Director of the Memory Assessment Clinic at the William S. Middleton Veterans Memorial Hospital. Dr. Carlsson attended the University of Michigan Medical School and received her MD degree in 1995. Following her residency and chief residency in internal medicine, she completed fellowships in geriatrics and older women's health at the University of Wisconsin Hospitals and Clinics and the William S. Middleton Veterans Memorial Hospital. She joined the faculty of the UW Section of Geriatrics in 2003. Her additional research training includes a Certificate of Training in the UW Clinical Investigator Preparatory Program (CIPP) (NIH K30) and a Master's Degree in Population Health Sciences from UW School of Medicine and Public Health in 2005.

Primary Research (for Beeson Program): Effect of Statins on Pathobiology of Alzheimer's Disease