Kristine Yaffe

Kristine Yaffe
Born
Kristine Segre
Alma materYale University
University of Pennsylvania
University of California, San Francisco
OccupationProfessor at UCSF School of Medicine
Known forCognitive decline and dementia research
FatherGino Segrè
RelativesJulie Segre (sister)
Emilio Segrè (grand-uncle)
AwardsPotamkin Prize (2017)
Websiteprofiles.ucsf.edu/kristine.yaffe

Kristine Yaffe (née Segre) is an American cognitive decline and dementia researcher. She is the Scola Endowed Chair and Vice Chair and Professor of Psychiatry, Neurology and Epidemiology and the Director of the Center for Population Brain Health at the University of California, San Francisco. In 2019, Yaffe was elected to the National Academy of Medicine.

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