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NHSTalks Stories || Episode 20:
Dr. Alexandra Touroutoglou
May 13, 2021

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Dr. Alexandra Touroutoglou

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Dr. Alexandra Touroutoglou is an Assistant Professor of Neurology at Harvard Medical School. She leads clinical trials to treat patients with Alzheimer’s disease at Massachusetts General Hospital, a teaching hospital of Harvard Medical School. She is the Director of Imaging Operations at the Mass General Center of Translational Brain Mapping and the Director of Imaging Operations at the Frontotemporal Dementia Unit at Mass General. She received her PhD from Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece in 2010 followed by a post-doctoral fellowship at Harvard Medical School.
 
She has been awarded NIH grants for her clinical research and is the author of highly cited articles in brain imaging.

Her team has discovered older adults who maintain youthful brains, called “Super Agers” and her findings have garnered substantial scientific interest and media attention featured by the BBC, Huffington Post, and The New York Times. She has won several awards for her work, including a Teaching Award from Institute of International Education/Fulbright Foundation in 2016 and 2019 and “Woman of the Year” in Greece in 2017.
 
She also devotes her time in supporting the scientific community in the Greek diaspora and serves as the President of the Hellenic Bioscientific Association of the USA.


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