Sierra Pacific (VISN 21) MIRECC Staff
Allyson C. Rosen, Ph.D., ABPP Clinical Neuropsychology
MIRECC Director of Education
Contact: allyson.rosen@va.gov, rosena@stanford.edu
Training: Dr. Rosen is board certified in clinical neuropsychology with a geriatric focus. She completed college at Brown University, a clinical psychology Ph.D. from Case Western Reserve University, clinical neuropsychology internship at the Long Island Jewish Hospital in New York, and clinical neuropsychology postdoctoral fellowship at the Medical College of Wisconsin. Dr. Rosen has specialty research fellowship training in functional imaging (F32 NRSA, and IRTA) and transcranial magnetic stimulation (K01) from the National Institute on Aging.
Clinical and Research Activities: For the past decade Dr. Rosen provided dementia education in partnership with the Alzheimer’s Association and other community organizations. Dr. Rosen is a Clinical Associate Professor (Affiliated) of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at the Stanford School of Medicine. Dr. Rosen’s funded research has focused on applying cognitive neuroscience of aging to improve clinical practice in older adults by using cognitive measures, brain imaging, and noninvasive brain stimulation such as TMS. Studies include using fMRI as an outcome measure for cognitive training, studying how to improve the accuracy of transcranial magnetic stimulation targeting with and without image guidance, and using structural MRI to avoid postoperative cognitive decline and improve outcome from carotid vascular procedures. She is also a neuropsychologist and part of the consensus clinical group at the Stanford’s Alzheimer’s Disease Research Center (NIA).
Major Initiatives
- VA Imaging Consortium: Improving Brain Stimulation with Imaging (IBSI)
- Ethics and Neuroethical Issues in Dementia
- Caregiver Tele-Health Alliance, a collaboration with Atlanta VAHCS (PI Patricia Griffith)
