Mirella Díaz-Santos

Mirella Díaz-Santos

Biography

Mirella Díaz-Santos completed her bachelor’s degree in psychology from the University of Puerto Rico, Río Piedras Campus, before moving to the States and receiving her doctorate degree in clinical psychology-neuropsychology from Boston University. She completed two post-doctoral fellowships at UCLA: a clinical neuropsychology fellowship and, a cognitive neuroscience research fellowship. Dr. Díaz-Santos is currently an Adjunct Assistant Professor in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at the David Geffen School of Medicine (UCLA), Director of Research of the Hispanic Neuropsychiatric Center of Excellence (HNCE) at Semel Institute for Neuroscience and Human Behavior, and Research Psychologist at the Mary S. Easton Center for Alzheimer’s Disease Research. She is a neuropsychologist with an expertise in Alzheimer’s disease and related dementias working primarily with the Latino/a older adult English-Spanish bilingual community and their families.

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