Dr. Shawniqua T. Williams Roberson is a board-certified clinical neurophysiologist and an Assistant Professor in the Department of Neurology at Vanderbilt University Medical Center and the Department of Biomedical Engineering at Vanderbilt University. She specializes in the treatment of refractory epilepsy and in clinical neurophysiology. Her research interests focus on understanding the neurophysiologic underpinnings of intensive care unit delirium and its associated cognitive and psychological impairment, including long-term outcomes and progression to dementia.

Dr. Williams Roberson earned her undergraduate and masters degrees in electrical engineering and computer science at Massachusetts Institute of Technology. She completed her medical degree at Weill Cornell Medical College, her neurology residency at Johns Hopkins Hospital and her epilepsy/clinical neurophysiology fellowship and a neuroengineering fellowship at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania. She joined the Vanderbilt faculty in 2018.
 

Dr. Jamaine Davis is a biophysicist and Assistant Professor of Biochemistry and Cancer Biology at Meharry Medical College. Dr. Davis’ research aims to determine how genetic variants of the ATP-binding cassette protein ABCA7 confer risk for Alzheimer’s disease, particularly among African Americans who are at greatest risk. 

Dr. Davis completed his doctoral degree in Molecular Biophysics at the University of Pennsylvania and two postdoctoral fellowships at the National Cancer Institute. He joined the Meharry Medical College faculty in 2013.
 

Dr. Hannah Harmsen is a board-certified neuropathologist and an Assistant Professor of Pathology, Microbiology, and Immunology at Vanderbilt University Medical Center. Dr. Harmsen’s interests focus on the characterization of neurodegenerative diseases, particularly Alzheimer’s disease, and in the role microvascular disease plays in neurodegenerative disorders. Dr. Harmsen serves as the Neuropathology Core Co-Leader for the Vanderbilt Alzheimer's Disease Research Center.

Dr. Harmsen completed medical school at Wayne State University as well as an anatomic and clinical pathology residency and neuropathology fellowship at Vanderbilt University Medical Center. She joined the Vanderbilt faculty in 2020.

Dr. Yurui Gao is a neuroimaging scientist and a Research Assistant Professor of Biomedical Engineering at Vanderbilt University. Dr. Gao’s research focuses on developing and implementing novel neuroimaging biomarkers, including functional connectivity of white matter, to reflect brain alterations in different stages of Alzheimer’s disease.

Dr. Gao earned her PhD in Biomedical Engineering and completed a fellowship in Biomedical Imaging at Vanderbilt University. She joined the Vanderbilt faculty in 2016.

Dr. Melissa C. Duff is as a speech-language pathologist and Associate Professor of Hearing and Speech Sciences at Vanderbilt University Medical Center. Dr. Duff’s work focuses on the role of the hippocampal memory system in language use and processing, including the study of patients with hippocampal amnesia, traumatic brain injury, and Alzheimer’s disease.

Dr. Duff earned her doctoral degree in Speech and Hearing Science at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, and completed a postdoctoral fellowship in cognitive neuroscience at the University of Iowa. She joined the Vanderbilt faculty in 2016.
 

Dr. Eric R. Gamazon is as a statistical geneticist and Associate Professor of Medicine at Vanderbilt University Medical Center. Dr. Gamazon’s research focuses on elucidating the molecular basis of Alzheimer’s disease risk by integrating human phenomic and genomic methodology.

Dr. Gamazon completed his doctoral degree in statistical and neuropsychiatric genetics at the University of Amsterdam. He joined the Vanderbilt faculty in 2017.

Dominic Roby is a Clinical Translational Research Coordinator at the Vanderbilt Memory & Alzheimer’s Center. He graduated from Middle Tennessee State University in December of 2020 with a Bachelor of Science in Psychology. Dominic’s research at MTSU included ways in which different forms of digital entertainment activities influence spatial attention and enumeration skill. 

In his free time, Dominic enjoys exercising, cooking, and spending time with friends and family.  

Pam Cowley is a Community Outreach and Engagement Manager at the Vanderbilt Memory and Alzheimer's Center. Pam has demonstrated experience in public health, access to health insurance, coordination of care and Medicaid marketing, including two years as Outreach Manager for the implementation of the Affordable Care Act in Washington state. Most recently, Pam worked five years in the role of Community Engagement Manager for a Medicaid health plan. After a long career as an Art Director, Pam graduated in 2009 with a bachelor's degree in Communications from the Evergreen State College to focus on supporting community collaboration in addressing health differences.

In her spare time, Pam enjoys time with family, gardening and writing.