Professor Ozioma Okonkwo is a faculty member in the Department of Medicine and the Wisconsin Alzheimer’s Disease Research Center. He received his PhD from the University of Alabama at Birmingham and completed his postdoctoral training at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine.
Professor Okonkwo’s research focuses on clarifying how alterations in the brain and other biomolecules place some cognitively-normal individuals on a pernicious trajectory that culminates in Alzheimer’s disease dementia. In this context, Dr. Okonkwo is particularly interested in discovering new knowledge concerning the modulation of the link between brain changes and cognitive decline by both modifiable and non-modifiable factors. Overlaid on this research agenda are investigations of health accessibility, and how such accessibility exacerbates or ameliorates the impact of biomarkers on clinical phenotypes.
