Kate Possin was awarded her PhD in clinical psychology from UCSD in 2007. During her training at UCSD, she studied cognitive changes associated with Parkinson’s disease. She completed her internship in clinical neuropsychology at UCSF in the Departments of Psychiatry and Neurology and her postdoctoral fellowship in the Department of Neurology.

Currently, Dr. Possin is an assistant professor in neuropsychology at the Memory and Aging Center. Her research is funded by a Larry L. Hillblom Foundation Award to study spatial cognition in neurodegenerative disease, with a focus on Lewy Body Disorders. She aims to develop new anatomically-specific spatial cognitive measures, including virtual reality tests of navigation, that will be sensitive to the earliest cognitive changes in these disorders and that will help with early diagnosis. She is also interested in studying the neural substrates of spatial cognition and executive functioning using magnetic resonance imaging modalities, including voxel-based morphometry.