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Olivia I Okereke, MD
Assistant Professor of Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School
Department of Psychiatry, MGH
MS, Epidemiology, Harvard School of Public Health
MD, Medicine, Yale University
AB, Biology, Harvard University
Phone: 617-726-5571
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DESCRIPTION OF WORK / BIOSKETCH
Dr. Okereke is a Board-certified geriatric psychiatrist and Assistant Professor of Psychiatry and Epidemiology at Harvard Medical School (HMS) and the Harvard School of Public Health (HSPH). A graduate of Harvard College and Yale University School of Medicine, she completed a general psychiatry residency at the Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH)/ McLean program and a fellowship in geriatric psychiatry at McLean Hospital. She also completed a Master of Science in Epidemiology degree at HSPH as a Kirschstein-National Research Service Award recipient. At Brigham and Women’s Hospital (BWH), she has appointments as an Associate Psychiatrist in the Department of Psychiatry and an Associate Epidemiologist in the Department of Medicine. She is a staff neuropsychiatrist in the BWH Division of Cognitive and Behavioral Neuroscience and a clinical affiliate psychiatrist in the MGH Gerontology Research Unit and Massachusetts Alzheimer’s Disease Research Center.
Dr. Okereke’s current research projects include: a Career Development Award (K08) from the NIA to evaluate relations of dietary factors and novel plasma oxidative stress markers to cognitive decline in a cohort of 6,500 older women; a New Investigator Research Grant from the Alzheimer’s Association to develop a method for detection and classification of cognitive disorders in large-scale study settings; a Harvard Endowment (Milton Fund) Award to assess prevention of clinical depression using long-term B6/B12/folic acid combined supplementation among 5,400 mid-life and late-life women with multiple cardiovascular disease risk factors; and an R01 grant from the NIMH to conduct a 2x2 factorial RCT of vitamin D and marine omega-3 dietary supplementation for prevention of late-life depression among 20,000 US older adults. Her work has appeared in Archives of Internal Medicine, Archives of Neurology, American Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry, Neurobiology of Aging, Journal of Clinical Endocrinology and Metabolism, Journal of the American Geriatrics Society, and other publications.
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