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Dr. Whitson's research is focused on improving care options and resilience for people with multiple chronic conditions. In particular, she has interest and expertise related to the link between age-related changes in the eye and brain (e.g., How does late-life vision loss impact the aging brain or cognitive outcomes? Is Alzheimer's disease associated with distinctive changes in the retina, and could such changes help diagnose Alzheimer's disease early in its course?). Dr. Whitson leads a collaborative Alzheimer's Disease initiative that brings together investigators from Duke University and the University of North Carolina (UNC) at Chapel Hill, with a bold vision to transform dementia research and care across Eastern North Carolina. Dr. Whitson is also interested in improving health services to better meet the needs of medically complex patients. Within the Duke Aging Center, she leads research efforts aimed at promoting resilience to late-life stressors (e.g., surgery, sensory loss, infection). She has developed a novel rehabilitation model for people with co-existing vision and cognitive deficits, and she is part of a inter-disciplinary team seeking to improve peri-operative outcomes for frail or at-risk seniors who must undergo surgery. As a co-leader of a national resilience collaborative, she seeks to better understand the biological and psychological factors that determine how well we "bounce back" after health stressors.
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Melody Reese,Megan K Wong, Vanessa Cheong,Christine I Ha,Mary Cooter Wright,Jeffrey Browndyke,Eugene Moretti,Michael J Devinney,Ashraf S Habib,Judd W Moul,Leslie M Shaw,Teresa Waligorska,Heather E Whitson,Harvey J Cohen,Kathleen A Welsh-Bohmer,Brenda L Plassman,Joseph P Mathew,Miles Berger, Markers of Alzheimer’s Disease and neuroCognitive Outcomes after Perioperative Care (MADCO-PC) Investigators
Anesthesiologyno. 5 (2024): 963-978
BRAIN BEHAVIOR & IMMUNITY-HEALTH (2024): 100743-100743
British Journal of Anaesthesiano. 1 (2024): 154-163
JOURNAL OF ALZHEIMERS DISEASEno. 1 (2024): 163-170
Journal of Alzheimer's diseaseno. 2 (2024): 593-600
Journal of the American Geriatrics Societyno. 5 (2024): 1623-1626
American journal of kidney diseases (2024)
Jason R Smith,Alison R Huang,Yunshu Zhou,Varshini Varadaraj,Bonnielin K Swenor,Heather E Whitson, Nicholas S Reed,Jennifer A Deal,Joshua R Ehrlich
JAMA ophthalmology (2024)
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#Papers: 238
#Citation: 4425
H-Index: 34
G-Index: 62
Sociability: 7
Diversity: 0
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