Shireen Javandel

Assistant Director for Operations and Impact, GBHI
+1 415 476-1688

Shireen provides oversight for resource allocation, risk mitigation, budgeting, and logistics for the Global Brain Health Institute (GBHI) at the UCSF Memory and Aging Center. She works closely with the Department of Neurology and other groups to optimize the administration of the program within UCSF. Shireen also oversees the growing impact portfolio in partnership with Global Atlantic Fellows and UCSF Memory and Aging Center faculty, providing leadership for the Pilot Program for Global Brain Health Leaders, research initiatives and partnerships with the US Alzheimer’s Association, the National Institutes of Health and other agencies working with Atlantic Fellows towards transformative impact.

Shireen has been involved in launching and managing numerous domestic and international research projects, including the Atlantic Fellow-led ReDLat consortium. She previously managed the HIV research program with the UCSF Memory and Aging Center and, before coming to UCSF in 2014, she worked in education, coordinating work-placed based mentorships for underserved middle school students.

Publications

Genetic Contributions to Alzheimer's Disease and Frontotemporal Dementia in Admixed Latin American Populations.

Acosta-Uribe J, Escudero SDP, Cochran JN, Taylor JW, Castruita A, Jonson C, Barinaga EA, Roberts K, Levine AR, George DS, AvilaFunes JA, Behrens MI, Bruno MA, Brusco LI, Custodio N, Duran-Aniotz C, Lopera F, Matallana DL, Slachevsky A, Takada LT, Zapata-Restrepo LM, Durón-Reyes DE, de Paula França Resende E, Gelvez N, Gómez LF, Godoy ME, Maito MA, Avandel S, Miller BL, Nalls MA, Leonard H, Vitale D, Bandres-Ciga S, Koretsky MJ, Singleton AB, Pantazis CB, Valcour V, Ibañez A, Kosik KS, Yokoyama JS, Bistue MB

Structural inequality linked to brain volume and network dynamics in aging and dementia across the Americas.

Legaz A, Altschuler F, Gonzalez-Gomez R, Hernández H, Baez S, Migeot J, Fittipaldi S, Medel V, Maito MA, Godoy ME, Moguilner S, Cruzat J, Coronel-Oliveros C, Tagliazuchi E, Santamaria Garcia H, Farina FR, Reyes P, Javandel S, García AM, Deleglise Á, Matallana DL, Avila-Funes JA, Slachevsky A, Behrens MI, Custodio N, Trujillo-Llano C, Cardona JF, Barttfeld P, Brusco IL, Bruno MA, Sosa Ortiz AL, Pina-Escudero SD, Takada LT, França Resende EP, Possin KL, Okada de Oliveira M, Hu K, Lopera F, Lawlor B, Valcour V, Yokoyama JS, Miller B, Ibañez A

Genetic Contributions to Alzheimer's Disease and Frontotemporal Dementia in Admixed Latin American Populations.

Acosta-Uribe J, Piña Escudero SD, Cochran JN, Taylor JW, Castruita PA, Jonson C, Barinaga EA, Roberts K, Levine AR, George DS, ÁvilaFunes JA, Behrens MI, Bruno MA, Brusco LI, Custodio N, Duran-Aniotz C, Lopera F, Matallana DL, Slachevsky A, Takada LT, Zapata-Restrepo LM, Durón-Reyes DE, de Paula França Resende E, Gelvez N, Godoy ME, Maito MA, Javandel S, Miller BL, Nalls MA, Leonard H, Vitale D, Bandres-Ciga S, Koretsky MJ, Singleton AB, Pantazis CB, Valcour V, Ibañez A, Kosik KS, Yokoyama JS, Multi-Partner Consortium to Expand Dementia Research in Latin America (ReDLat)

Educational disparities in brain health and dementia across Latin America and the United States.

Gonzalez-Gomez R, Legaz A, Moguilner S, Cruzat J, Hernández H, Baez S, Cocchi R, Coronel-Olivero C, Medel V, Tagliazuchi E, Migeot J, Ochoa-Rosales C, Maito MA, Reyes P, Santamaria Garcia H, Godoy ME, Javandel S, García AM, Matallana DL, Avila-Funes JA, Slachevsky A, Behrens MI, Custodio N, Cardona JF, Brusco IL, Bruno MA, Sosa Ortiz AL, Pina-Escudero SD, Takada LT, Resende EPF, Valcour V, Possin KL, Okada de Oliveira M, Lopera F, Lawlor B, Hu K, Miller B, Yokoyama JS, Gonzalez Campo C, Ibañez A

Classification of Alzheimer's disease and frontotemporal dementia using routine clinical and cognitive measures across multicentric underrepresented samples: A cross sectional observational study.

Maito MA, Santamar?a-Garc?a H, Moguilner S, Possin KL, Godoy ME, Avila-Funes JA, Behrens MI, Brusco IL, Bruno MA, Cardona JF, Custodio N, Garc?a AM, Javandel S, Lopera F, Matallana DL, Miller B, de Oliveira MO, Pina-Escudero SD, Slachevsky A, Ortiz ALS, Takada LT, Tagliazuchi E, Valcour V, Yokoyama JS, Iba?ez A