Jessica Caldwell, PhD

Position title: mPI WRAP Study

Email: caldwell@neurology.wisc.edu

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Multi-Principal Investigator WRAP
Visiting Associate Professor
Department of Neurology

Dr. Caldwell is the multi-principal investigator of the Wisconsin Registry for Alzheimer’s Prevention (WRAP) study. Dr. Caldwell is a board-certified neuropsychologist and a visiting associate professor in the department of neurology at UW-Madison. She earned her bachelor’s degree at Princeton University, and her Ph.D. in clinical psychology with a minor in neuroscience at UW-Madison. She completed predoctoral internship at Harvard Medical School, and a postdoctoral fellowship in neuropsychology and neuroimaging at Brown University.

Research Interests

Dr. Caldwell’s research focuses on sex and gender influences on Alzheimer’s disease risk and resilience, including how hormones and socially-determined gender roles impact risk for developing Alzheimer’s disease. Her research also examines dementia prevention and both pharmacological and non-pharmacological approaches to dementia prevention.

View Dr. Caldwell’s publications on PubMed