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Professor & Vice Chair of Research
University of Washington School of Medicine
Seattle, Washington, United States
Dr. Mac Donald is a neurotraumatologist with expertise in advanced neuroimaging methods and the application to neurodegenerative diseases, in particular traumatic brain injury (TBI). Her current research focus includes advanced neuroimaging evaluation of mild traumatic brain injury in the US military, severe brain injury in adult civilians, and the distribution of brain injury in children, along with high resolution imaging for direct radiological- pathological correlations of TBI via cadaveric imaging and in excised human brain specimens. In addition, she leads a major neuroimaging effort leveraging 2000 existing MRI scans collected in a community-based cohort as part of the Adult Changes in Thought (ACT) study to understand risk factors for dementia. She has over ten years of experience conducting clinical trials and observational studies, and for the past decade has been managing and directing large scale, multi-center, international clinical research studies in the United States, Italy, Germany, and Afghanistan.
Monday, October 30, 2023
3:30 PM – 3:45 PM