Dr. Possin’s research program aims to bridge science, practice, and policy to address major gaps in the detection, diagnosis, and care for people with neurodegenerative disease. She directs the Care Ecosystem, a telephone-based collaborative care model for people with dementia and their caregivers that improves patient quality of life and caregiver well-being, while reducing emergency-related health care costs. She has designed and developed cognitive measures for early diagnosis and disease monitoring, including tablet-based measures (“TabCAT”) that are easy to use in everyday clinical and research settings. Dr. Possin is a faculty member at the Global Brain Health Institute and the Clinical Core Lead for the UCSF Alzheimer's Disease Research Center.
Kate Possin was awarded her PhD degree in clinical psychology from the University of California, San Diego. She completed her internship and postdoctoral fellowship at UCSF. She is Professor in Residence at the Memory and Aging Center in the Department of Neurology, where she holds the John Douglas French Alzheimer’s Foundation Endowed Professorship.
Dr. Possin is accepting applications for a postdoctoral fellowship in dementia healthcare innovation through the Postdoctoral Program in Brain Health Equity or the Global Brain Health Institute.