Kate Possin

Kate Possin  is a Professor at the UCSF Memory and Aging Center in the Department of Neurology and at the Global Brain Health Institute, where she holds the John Douglas French Foundation Endowed Professorship.

Dr. Possin’s research program is focused on improving the detection, diagnosis, and care for people with neurodegenerative disease. 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. In addition, Dr. Possin 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.