Dr. Athene Lee is an Associate Professor in the Department of Psychiatry and Human Behavior at Brown University Alpert Medical School. She is also a clinical neuropsychologist at the Butler Hospital Memory and Aging Program and the Director of the Butler Alzheimer’s Prevention Registry. Dr. Lee is the New England Rhode Island site neuropsychologist for the U.S. Study to Protect Brain Health Through Lifestyle Intervention to Reduce Risk (U.S. POINTER) and sub-investigator for many other Alzheimer’s disease clinical trials. She has an active role at the Alzheimer’s Clinical Trial Consortium (ACTC), serving as the emerging leader liaison of the Alzheimer's Clinical Trials Education, Engagement, Access, and Accountability (ACT-E2A2) Unit, the founding chair of the Early Career Project Evaluation Committee, and a member of the Clinical Outcome Instruments Unit.
Dr. Lee received her doctoral degree in clinical psychology from Suffolk University and completed her residency and fellowship in neuropsychology at Brown University Alpert Medical School. She is dedicated to promoting early identification and intervention for cognitive decline and to enhance diverse representation in Alzheimer’s disease and related dementia research. Her research is focused on risk prediction algorithm for preclinical Alzheimer’s disease, disclosure of genetic and biomarker risk for Alzheimer’s disease, and cultural influence on subjective cognitive decline.
