People

Gil Rabinovici, MD

Principal Investigator
Neurology

Dr. Rabinovici is the Edward Fein and Pearl Landrith Endowed Professor in Memory & Aging. He received his BS degree from Stanford University and MD from Northwestern University Medical School. He completed an internship in internal medicine at Stanford University, neurology residency (and chief residency) at UCSF and a behavioral neurology fellowship at the Memory and Aging Center (MAC).

Maison Abu Raya, MD

Specialist

I obtained my medical degree from The Rappaport Medical School of the Technion, Israel, and completed my residency in neurology at Hillel Yaffe Medical center in Israel and passed the Israeli Neurology board exams with honors in 2019. 

Alinda Amuiri, BS

Clinical Research Coordinator
Neurology

Alinda is an East Bay native and graduated from the Xavier University of Louisiana in May 2021 with a Bachelor of Science degree in Biology. She now works as a Clinical Research Coordinator to help support and coordinate the research studies in the Rabinovici Lab and the Alzheimer's Disease Research Center. 

Ganna Blazhenets, PhD

Professional Researcher
Neurology

I am an early-career scientist with a background in physics and neuroimaging, completed my PhD at the University of Freiburg in Germany, focusing on multimodal neuroimaging techniques. In 2022, I began my journey as a visiting scholar at the Rabinovici lab, returning in 2024 as an assistant researcher.

Gillian Chen, MHA

Administrative Officer II
Neurology

I am an administrative assistant for Dr. Gil Rabinovici (and Dr. Howie Rosen). I help assist with the administrative needs for him and his lab. I also manage his scheduling, travel, and other miscellaneous tasks as needed.

Konstantinos Chiotis, MD, PhD

Postdoc Scholar - Employee
Neurology

Konstantinos is an attending neurologist, specializing in the care of patients with neurodegenerative disorders. He obtained his medical degree from the University of Patras in Greece (2011) and completed a Ph.D. at Karolinska Institutet (2013-2017), focusing on the development of multimodal neuroimaging biomarkers for Alzheimer’s disease at the Agneta Nordberg lab.

Currently serving as a postdoctoral fellow at the UCSF Memory and Aging Center in the RabLab, Konstantinos works on multimodal neuroimaging under the mentorship of Professor Gil Rabinovici and Dr. Renaud La Joie.

Margo Heston, PhD

Postdoc Scholar
Neurology

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Aidyn Rose Hills, BA

Asst Clinical Research Coord.

Aidyn was born and raised in Portland, Oregon. In May 2024, she graduated from Whitman College with a bachelor’s degree in psychology and a minor in biology. She previously worked as a student researcher in the Psychology Department at Whitman College, investigating the effect of language framing on victim-blaming attitudes and prosocial behavior. Aidyn is now an Assistant Clinical Research Coordinator for the PET program in the Rabinovici Lab at the Memory and Aging Center.

Renaud La Joie, PhD

Assistant Professor
Neurology

Dr. La Joie originally trained in Neuroscience, Neuropsychology, and Neuroimaging in France before moving to UC Berkeley as a visiting scholar. He then joined UCSF as a post-doctoral fellow in 2016 and transitioned to a faculty position in 2021. His reseach combines multimodal neuroimaging techniques, fluid biomarkers, and neuropsychological measures to study the natural history of Alzheimer’s disease and other neurodegenerative diseases.

May Lin, BS

Clinical Research Coordinator
May was born and raised in Rocklin, California. She graduated from Pomona College in May 2024 with a Bachelor of Arts degree in Neuroscience. She was previously an undergraduate research assistant in the King Lab at Pomona College, where she worked on projects investigating how chronic mild stress and environmental enrichment modulated memory and synaptic plasticity.

Marlene Lin, BS

Master's Student

Marlene is a master’s student in the Health Data Science program at UCSF. In 2023, she obtained her bachelor’s degree in computational biology with a minor in statistics at UCLA.

Zoe Lin, BA

Asst. Clinical Research Coord.
Neurology

Zoe was born and raised in Northern California. She graduated from Washington University in St. Louis in December of 2023 with a degree in Biology with a Neuroscience focus. Previously, Zoe worked as an undergraduate research associate in the Campbell Lab at WashU School of Medicine, investigating brain volume differences and volumetric progression patterns in Parkinson’s disease clinical subtypes through MRI imaging. She is now an Assistant Clinical Research Coordinator working with the PET Core team in the Rabinovici Lab.

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