Rachel Buckley, PhD
Massachusetts General Brigham Hospital
Rachel Buckley, PhD, is an associate professor of neurology at Mass General Brigham and Harvard Medical School. She is a past recipient of an NIH-NIA K99/R00 Pathway to Independence Award and an NIH DP2 New Innovator Award. After initially completing her PhD in Neuropsychology at the University of Melbourne, Australia, with the Australian Imaging Biomarker and Lifestyle Study of Aging, she moved to Boston to train in PET neuroimaging and cognitive decline under the mentorship of Dr. Reisa Sperling at the Harvard Aging Brain Study. Her research interests lie in sex differences in risk for Alzheimer’s disease, and she holds multiple NIH grants seeking to optimize women’s brain health in neurodegenerative disease, with a specific focus on the role of menopause, sex hormones and the X chromosome to impact risk and resilience to Alzheimer’s disease. Dr. Buckley is a past chair of the Sex and Gender Differences in Alzheimer’s Disease Professional Interest Area for the Alzheimer’s Association, she is a co-lead of the Sex and Gender in Neurodegeneration (S|GN) Consortium for the Alzheimer’s Disease Data Initiative and sits on the editorial board for Neurology.