Raquel C. Gardner
Email: raquel.gardner@sheba.health.gov.il
Phone: 03-5309120
Position: Director of Clinical Research, Joseph Sagol Neuroscience Center
Research Interests:
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Blood-based biomarkers for dementia diagnosis and disease monitoring
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Blood-based biomarkers for traumatic brain injury diagnosis and prognosis
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Head CT
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Outcome prediction in traumatic brain injury
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Caregivers
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Long-term neurodegenerative effects of childhood exposure to ionizing radiation
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Dementia prevention and treatment
I am a U.S. board-certified behavioral neurologist with additional advanced training in clinical research methods and biostatistics. I lead an international clinical research program focused on the intersections between traumatic brain injury, aging, and neurodegenerative disease. The goal of the research program is to advance knowledge and clinical care of brain injury in order to lessen the global burden of traumatic brain injury and neurodegenerative disease. I am an investigator with the U.S.-based traumatic brain injury research network, TRACK-TBI https://tracktbi.ucsf.edu/. I am a member of the Executive Committee of the International initiative for TBI Research (InTBIR) https://intbir.incf.org/.
Education:
2015-2017, Advanced Training in Clinical Research at University of California San Francisco, Clinical and Translational Science Institute
2013-2015, Post-doctoral Fellowship in Dementia Epidemiology at San Francisco Veteran Affairs Medical Center and University of California San Francisco, Center for Population Brain Health
2012-2013, Fellowship in Behavioral Neurology at University of California San Francisco, Memory and Aging Center
2008-2012, Residency in Neurology at University of California San Francisco
2003-2008, M.D. from Harvard Medical School, Boston
1999-2003, B.A. in Neuroscience from Columbia University, New York
Affiliations:
2023, Tel Aviv University School of Public Health, Dept. of Epidemiology, Nominated for Associate Professor
2022-2023, University of California San Francisco, Dept. of Neurology, Adjunct Associate Professor (courtesy one-year appointment to facilitate transition to Sheba)
2021-2022, University of California San Francisco, Dept. of Neurology, Associate Professor In Residence (Tenured)
2015-2021, University of California San Francisco, Dept. of Neurology, Assistant Professor
2012-2015, University of California San Francisco, Dept. of Neurology, Clinical Instructor
Research Grants & Awards:
2022-2026, Dept of Defense Alzheimer’s Disease Blood-Testing Initiative (DoD-ADBI): A study to accelerate blood-based diagnosis of Alzheimer’s in Veterans, U.S. Dept of Defense (2,800,000$)
2022-2025, Childhood ionizing radiation exposure and risk of later-life neurodegenerative diseases: A Tinea Capitis Cohort Study Binational Science Foundation (250,000$)
2021-2025, Transforming research and clinical knowledge in Veterans with acute traumatic brain injury (TRACK-VA), U.S. Dept of Veterans Affairs (1,200,000$)
2021-2025, Transitioned to co-I with P.Mukherjee as PI in Sept 2022 (due to international relocation)
2020-2022, New approaches to dementia heterogeneity in Veterans (Supplement on Alzheimer’s Disease Research Center Grant), U.S. National Institutes of Health (200,000$)
2019-2024, Modular design accelerated development of mininimally invasive dried plasma and saliva tests for detecting TBI sequelae for AD dementia, U.S. Dept of Defense
2019-2024, Long-term impact of military-relevant brain injury consortium (LIMBIC): Epidemiological Study, U.S. Dept of Defense/ U.S. Dept of Veterans Affairs
2019-2024, Transforming research and clinical knowledge in geriatric traumatic brain injury (TRACK-GERI) U.S. National Institutes of Health (2,499,995$)
2019-2024, Transitioned to multi-PI with G.T. Manley as cpntact PI in Sept 2022 (due to international relocation)
2018-2022, A novel CT biomarkers of pre-injuiry brain structure to improve prediction of cognitive decline after mild TBI, U.S. Dept of Defense (225,000$)
2018, Transforming Research in Geriatric Traumatic Brain Injury (TaRGET), UCSF Research Allocation Program (40,000$)
2016-2017, Defining clinical trajectories after traumatic brain injury, Weill Institute for Neuroscience (100,000$)
2016-2017, The Role of Traumatic Brain Injury in the Development of Dementia, Global Brain Health Institute (50,000$)
2015-2020, Traumatic brain injury and the aging brain: predictors of clinical trajectories, American Federation for Aging Research (50,000$)
2015-2020, Traumatic brain injury and the aging brain: predictors of clinical trajectories, U.S. National Institutes of Health (870,000$)
Publications:
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