Dr. Priscilla Amofa-Ho is an Assistant Professor (tenure-track) and a clinical neuropsychologist (PY 13213). She leads the Neurocognitive Enhancement through Synergistic Therapies (NEST) Lab. Dr. Amofa-Ho completed her doctoral training in Clinical Neuropsychology at the University of Florida in Gainesville. Before earning her PhD, she worked at the Rush Alzheimer’s Disease Research Center on various intervention studies aimed at reducing the risk of Alzheimer’s disease dementia and other dementias. She completed her postdoctoral fellowship at the University of South Florida (PI: Dr. Christina McCrae, PhD, DBSM, FSBSM, FAASM, director of the SHINE Science Center and Assistant Dean of Research), focusing on how sleep affects cognitive aging and neurodegenerative disorders.

Dr. Amofa-Ho has extensive training and experience working with individuals at risk of and with dementia. Her clinical and research interests include mild cognitive impairment (MCI), dyadic interventions, dementias, the role of psychosocial factors and determinants of health in cognitive aging, implementing interventions to prevent cognitive decline, and adapting interventions for underserved populations.

Her current research focuses on adapting multimodal lifestyle interventions for remote delivery to persons with MCI and their family caregivers. She is also interested in using lifestyle and non-pharmacological interventions to reduce cognitive decline and poor health outcomes among persons undergoing cancer treatment, those with high multimorbidity, and in culturally sensitive adaptation of interventions for underrepresented populations at increased risk of ADRD.