Academic Appointments
- Assistant Professor of Epidemiology (in Neurology and in the Sergievsky Center)
Dr. Tom’s primary area of research uses methods of demography and epidemiology to study risk for and resilience against dementia and cognitive decline in older adults from a life course perspective. She is particularly interested in leveraging existing sources of data and in applying formal demography methods to epidemiologic studies. Dr. Tom’s work also examines modifiable risk factors for and consequences of sleep health in older adults and prescription drug utilization in the Medicare population.
Departmental Appointments
- Department of Neurology
Education and Training
- MPH, University of California, Berkeley
- PhD, University of California, Berkeley
- Fellowship: Kaiser Permanente Washington Health Research Institute
- Fellowship: National Institute on Aging
- Fellowship: University College London
Lab Locations
CUMC/Neurological Institute of New York
710 West 168th Street
New York, NY 10032
