Valerie Medina
- Graduate Student
Contact Info
Education —
Research —
Advisor: Jaime Perales Puchalt, PhD
Research Lab: Latino Brain Health Lab
My research interests include exploring how mechanistic pathways to Alzheimer’s Disease might be racially patterned. Further, studying how lifelong exposures, including factors such as education, occupation, and leisure activities, may serve as moderators or buffers in the context of cognitive decline among older adult populations.
Selected Publications —
Medina, V., Watts, A., Fracachán-Cabrera, M., Hazlewood, C., Ramirez-Mantilla, M., Vidoni, E., Perales-Puchalt. J. (2024). Analysis of the Intensity of Engagement with CuidaTEXT, a Text Message Intervention for Dementia Caregiver Support among Latinos/as. Ethnicity & Health, 1-22. https://doi.org/10.1080/13557858.2024.238711
Vonk, J. M., Arce Rentería, M., Medina, V. M., Pericak-Vance, M. A., Byrd, G. S., Haines, J., & Manly, J. J. (2019). Education moderates the relation between ApoE e4 and episodic memory retention in non-demented non-Hispanic Black older adults. Journal of Alzheimer’s, 72(2), 495-506. doi: 10.3233/JAD-190415
Memberships —
Diversity Community Member