Kristine Yaffe

Biography

Dr. Yaffe is dually trained in neurology and psychiatry and completed postdoctoral training in epidemiology and geriatric psychiatry, all at UCSF. Dr. Yaffe serves as the director of the UCSF Dementia Epidemiology Research Group, which conducts research relating to cognitive function and dementia in aging populations throughout the United States. A primary focus of the group is determining predictors and outcomes of cognitive decline and dementia in older adults. Dr. Yaffe is also the principal investigator (PI) of the data core for the Alzheimer’s Disease Research Center at UCSF. In addition to her positions at UCSF, Dr. Yaffe is the chief of geriatric psychiatry and the director of the Memory Disorders Clinic at the San Francisco Veteran’s Affairs Medical Center. In addition to her research and clinical work, Dr. Yaffe has greatly contributed to training fellows and faculty in clinical research, career development and mentorship. Dr. Yaffe currently holds several National Institutes of Health, Department of Defense and foundation grants. The PI’s grants examine topics including how depressive symptoms among elderly women are associated with cognitive and functional decline over the long term; cognitive decline among patients with chronic renal insufficiency; and how sleep dysfunction is associated with cognitive impairment; and predictors and outcomes of cognitive trajectories in the oldest old. Dr. Yaffe’s research has been published in more than 200 peer-reviewed research articles in such prestigious journals at JAMA, BMJ, New England Journal of Medicine, Archives of General Psychiatry and Annals of Neurology.

Research Interest

Occlusive and orthodontic.