I completed my PhD in Neuroscience at the University of Sheffield, UK. My research aimed to investigate the neural and cognitive correlates of visual hallucinations in Lewy body disease and Alzheimer’s disease by integrating multimodal neuroimaging and neuropsychological measures. Following my doctoral studies, I conducted postdoctoral research in the Jagust Lab at UC Berkeley, focusing on successful and typical cognitive aging and related brain features, including Alzheimer’s disease pathology.
Salma was born and raised in Orange County, California. She graduated from the University of California, Berkeley in May 2022 with a Bachelor of Arts degree in Molecular and Cell Biology: Neurobiology and Spanish Linguistics. She is now working as an Assistant Clinical Research Coordinator to aid with various studies related to Alzheimer's disease in the Rabinovici Lab.
I completed my PhD in neuroscience at the University of Pennsylvania in 2022, with work decoding time and space from single-neuron activity in hospital patients undergoing intracranial electrode implantation. As a research scientist at the Memory and Aging Center, I help coordinate activities in the PET imaging core and conduct independent research on PET biomarkers of Alzheimer's disease, with a focus on early-onset and atypical clinical variants alongside longitudinal modeling of disease progression.
Ms. Smith is the Clinical Research Supervisor working directly with the Rabinovici Lab and the Alzheimer’s Disease Research Center. She works closely with both faculty and staff in monitoring operational issues, regulatory compliance and project development. Ms. Smith brings many years of experience in clinical and non-clinical trials across a variety of funding mechanisms and disciplines. Prior to coming to the Memory and Aging Center in April 2019, Ms.
Dr. David N. Soleimani-Meigooni is a neurologist who cares for patients experiencing cognitive symptoms as a result of neurodegenerative diseases such as Alzheimer's disease.
In research, Soleimani-Meigooni focuses on advancing precision-medicine approaches to diagnosing Alzheimer's disease and other neurodegenerative diseases. He looks at using positron emission tomography (PET) to image amyloid-beta and tau (protein fragments that accumulate in the brains of people with the condition).
Ms. Soppe is the PET Program Clinical Research Supervisor working directly with the Rabinovici Lab. She is deeply involved with both faculty and staff in monitoring operational issues, regulatory compliance and project development. Besides project management expertise, Carol brings over 20 years of research experience spanning fields from basic immunology, metabolic diseases and oncology to transplantation and autoimmunity. Prior to joining the Memory and Aging Center in May 2024, she was an Associate Director of Research Operations at the UCSF Immune Tolerance Network.
Fleur is a master’s student from the Netherlands. In 2022, she obtained her bachelor’s degree in biomedical sciences at Maastricht University and started the Neurosciences Master’s program at the VU in Amsterdam. In 2023, she was an intern in the team of Dr. Ossenkoppele at the Alzheimer’s Center in Amsterdam. Here she investigated the Cavum Septum Pellucidum in a population at risk for Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy using MRI metrics.
I am a cognitive neurologist and currently an Atlantic fellow for Equity in Brain Health, at the Global Brain Health Institute, UCSF.
I completed my neurology residency at Paris Cité Université, France and served as an attending at the Cognitive Neurology Center, led by Pr. Claire Paquet, at Lariboisière University Hospital, Paris.
As a clinical fellow, I participate in the evaluation and management of patients in both clinic and research. My research interests center on aging and dementia within different ethnic groups and the differences in biomarkers among particular ethnic groups.
Claire is an Assistant Clinical Research Coordinator working with the PET Core team in the Rabinovici Lab. She was born and raised in the Bay Area and graduated from University of California, Santa Cruz in 2021 with a Bachelor of Arts in Psychology. Claire was previously an undergraduate research assistant in the High Level Perception Lab and Samaha Lab at UC Santa Cruz, where she worked on projects studying music cognition and the neural basis of confidence in decision making
