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WAI Faculty & Staff

Erin McMullen Jonaitis, PhD, Assistant Scientist

 

Contact Information

Phone: 608-829-3305
Email: jonaitis@wisc.edu
Mailing address: Wisconsin Alzheimer's Institute, UW School of Medicine and Public Health, 7818 Big Sky Drive, Suite 215, Madison, WI 53719

 

Role at the WAI

Statistician

 

Current WAI Project: Wisconsin Registry for Alzheimer's Prevention (WRAP)

 

Education

BA, 2001, Psychology and Music, Case Western Reserve University (Cleveland, OH).

PhD, 2008, Psychology, University of Wisconsin (Madison, WI).  Minor: methodology (distributed).

MS, x2015, Statistics, University of Wisconsin (Madison, WI).  Emphasis in Biostatistics.

 

Background

Dr. Jonaitis is interested in measuring change over time.  Dr. Jonaitis joined the WRAP team in December 2009 and is working to understand how best to assess cognitive change in older adults.  In collaboration with subject matter experts across the university, she has worked on projects examining the role of cardiovascular and metabolic risk factors, Vitamin D, anesthesia, and markers of cognitive reserve in predicting cognitive performance over time.  In addition to her work at WAI, Dr. Jonaitis is currently pursuing a master's degree in Statistics at UW-Madison.

 

Research interests

Methods for longitudinal analysis; hypothesis testing and model evaluation; modifiable risk factors; cognitive psychology; music cognition