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Yue Leng, MD, PhD
Epidemiologist
We need to take a holistic approach but start from everyday practice—eat well, sleep tight, quit smoking, and get more exercise.
Current Work
Yue is an assistant professor of psychiatry at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF). Her research is focused on the relationship between sleep and brain aging including Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s disease.
Personal Hero
Her grandfather
Words of Strength
Making connections
Vision
To reduce the scale and impact of dementia, Yue believes we need to take a holistic approach but start from everyday practice—eat well, sleep tight, quit smoking, and get more exercise.
Strategy
Yue is developing a non-pharmacological sleep intervention program for people with mild cognitive impairment and sleep disturbances. She plans to pilot test its feasibility and effects on sleep and cognition, with the ultimate aim of decreasing risk of Alzheimer’s disease.
Impact
As an Atlantic Fellow, Yue acquired in-depth knowledge about clinical dementia and Alzheimer’s disease. More importantly, she made many new friends who share a similar passion and built important connections and collaboration.
Motivation
China is facing a rapidly aging society and increasing dementia incidence. Identifying modifiable risk factors for dementia in the Chinese population is key to the prevention of dementia and risk reduction in this population.
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