Yakeel T. Quiroz, PhD (she/her) @ytquiroz Twitter profile

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Yakeel T. Quiroz, PhD (she/her)

1 year

🚨Thrilled to share the report of the 2nd case with extreme protection against autosomal dominant #Alzheimers 🧠Very proud of the team! Check it out! Today in @NatureMedicine #Reelin #COLBOS @ResistAlz @MassGeneralNews @neuroudea @DrJoeArboleda @diegosflab

Resilience to autosomal dominant Alzheimer’s disease in a Reelin-COLBOS heterozygous man

Nature Medicine - Case report of an individual heterozygous for a rare RELN-COLBOS variant that confers resilience, via a gain-of-function mechanism, to Alzheimer’s disease.

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Yakeel T. Quiroz, PhD (she/her)

@ytquiroz

5 years

So excited to share our latest work on #familial #Alzheimers !😊 A report published @NatureMedicine describes an individual who resisted the disease. We found a rare mutation in #APOE that may protect against dementia #ResistAlz ⁦⁦ @MassGeneralNews ⁩

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Yakeel T. Quiroz, PhD (she/her)

@ytquiroz

4 years

So exciting! 😊 The @BostonGlobe featured our work with the Colombian families with #Alzheimers and the #Christchurch mutation! 👍🏼 @MassGeneralNews @MGH_RI @MGHmapp @MGHNeurology @MGHNeuroSci #COLBOS @ResistAlz @ADRCMass @HarvardAging Why didn’t she?

A DNA mystery: A woman was supposed to get Alzheimer’s by 50. Why didn’t she? - The Boston Globe

Mass. General’s Yakeel Quiroz led the search for what was protecting a Colombian woman into her early 70s — and if it might hold promise for others.

www.bostonglobe.com

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Yakeel T. Quiroz, PhD (she/her)

@ytquiroz

4 years

Excited to share that my @harvardmed promotion to Associate Professor has been approved! 🥳 Big thanks to my family, friends, trainees, mentors & colleagues for their support along the way! 👍🏼 So looking forward to the next phase! 😊💫 #WomenInScience @MGHmapp @MGH_RI @MGHMartinos

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Yakeel T. Quiroz, PhD (she/her)

@ytquiroz

3 years

Excited to announce that our NIH R01: “the Boston Latino Aging Study-BLAST” has been funded!!! 🥳 Thanks #NIA ! 😊 Very grateful to my mentors, Drs. Sperling, Johnson & Reiman for their support!👍🏼Thanks to the amazing team @MGHmapp for their hard work! 😍 @MGH_RI @MGHNeuroSci 🎉💃

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Yakeel T. Quiroz, PhD (she/her)

@ytquiroz

4 years

When you finally realized that being an Associate Professor @harvardmed is a pretty big deal, and that you’re one of few Latinas in the room!🤩Quite amazing! 😊 Thank you all for your support!! 👍🏼 -at the HMS Diversity & Inclusion Leadership and Advancement Celebration 🥂 @MGHmapp

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Yakeel T. Quiroz, PhD (she/her)

@ytquiroz

2 years

Very proud of my mentor Dr Francisco Lopera for giving a terrific plenary lecture at #AAIC22 ! 👏🏼 It has been quite an honor to work with him and his team all these years! 🤩 Un gran orgullo para todos los colombianos! 🇨🇴 Gracias por todo, Dr Lopera, y muchas felicitaciones! 😊

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Yakeel T. Quiroz, PhD (she/her)

@ytquiroz

2 years

Very excited to introduce the US Consortium of Aging, Dementia and Latino Studies! @CADLAS1 Our main goal is to promote collaborations to accelerate research & discovery. If you’re a PI of a study with US Latinos, please consider joining us!👍🏼 Apply here:

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Yakeel T. Quiroz, PhD (she/her)

@ytquiroz

4 years

🥳 So excited to launch a new Center at #MGH , the Multicultural Assessment and Research Center @MGHmarc !! 👍🏼This Ctr will provide neuropsych services to adult patients, as well as training in #multiculturalneuropsych ! 😊 Thanks @MGHPsychiatry for the support! @PAduen16 @MGHmapp

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Yakeel T. Quiroz, PhD (she/her)

@ytquiroz

3 years

📢 Please RT: We @MGHmarc are thrilled to announce that the Massachusetts General Hospital/Harvard Medical School Internship in Clinical Psychology has a new track: the Multicultural Neuropsychology Track!! 🥳 We'll be taking applications for 2022-23! @HispanicNS @INSneuro

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Yakeel T. Quiroz, PhD (she/her)

@ytquiroz

3 years

Let's talk about gender biases in recommendation letters... they're real and damaging! ☹️ We gotta do a better job writing those! To start, repeat after me: she is a brilliant scientist! she is an outstanding candidate!👍🏼and let's avoid saying she is hard working! More tips here:

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Yakeel T. Quiroz, PhD (she/her)

@ytquiroz

3 years

Rmndr for reviewers: Please be respectful w your comments, and remember that many writers are junior investigators who want to stay in science!👍🏼 …& please don’t accept to review papers from Latin America if personal biases may get in the way of a fair review 🤷🏼‍♀️ avoid this👇🏼 thx

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Yakeel T. Quiroz, PhD (she/her)

@ytquiroz

4 years

My 11yo nephew chose me for his class project about “portraits of scientists” 🤗 He actually read some of my papers and some of the media coverage about our #Alzheimers research 😍 He probably knows more about our work than many 👍🏼 I’m soooo proud of him! 🤩 He got an A+ 👏🏼🥳

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Yakeel T. Quiroz, PhD (she/her)

@ytquiroz

3 years

🎉🍾 And we have an entrance sign!! 🥳 I just can’t believe it! This is sooo exciting! 😊 Thanks to @MGHPsychiatry for making this possible! 👍🏼 Big thanks to the @MGHmarc team for all their support and for their passion and dedication to serve our multicultural patients!! 😍

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Yakeel T. Quiroz, PhD (she/her)

@ytquiroz

4 years

We did it!! 🎉 we voted in the US for the first time ever!! 😊 and of course, I had to wear my new #BlackLivesMatter #BlackInNeuro shirt! 👍🏼 Every vote counts! Make sure you have a plan to #Vote2020 💫 #VoteScience #VoteHealth #VoteEarlyInPerson @MGHmapp

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Yakeel T. Quiroz, PhD (she/her)

@ytquiroz

4 years

I’m thrilled and honored to have been selected as a 2020 #MGH Research Scholar! 🥳 yay! This wouldn’t have been possible without the support of amazing mentors and colleagues! 😊 Sooo exciting!! 😍 Thanks #HABS #COLBOS @MGHmapp @MGHNeurology @MGH_RI @MGHMartinos @ISTAART

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Yakeel T. Quiroz, PhD (she/her)

@ytquiroz

3 years

🥁 Our 1st paper of the year is our 1st one with longitudinal #tau PET in the Colombian kindred with #Alzheimers ! 🥳 So exciting! 😊 Check it out! So proud of the #COLBOS team! Congrats to Justin @sanchez_js1 & all co-authors! 👍🏼 @AlzheimersRes | @ISTAART

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Yakeel T. Quiroz, PhD (she/her)

@ytquiroz

4 years

Very proud and deeply honored to be on the list of #AAIC20 Award Recipients! 😊 Please join me on Friday for my plenary lecture!👍🏼 So exciting! Thank you all for your support! 🤗 #ResistAlz #COLBOS @MGHmapp @MassGeneralNews @MGH_RI @MGHNeurology @MGHPsychiatry @ISTAART @neuroudea

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Yakeel T. Quiroz, PhD (she/her)

@ytquiroz

2 years

We did it! ✨ very excited and proud to have presented at #AAIC22 our work with blood biomarkers with the Colombian kindred with autosomal dominant Alzheimer’s disease! 🤩 Thanks again to the #COLBOS @MGHmapp @neuroudea teams for all their support and their hard work! ☺️ @MGH_RI

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Yakeel T. Quiroz, PhD (she/her)

@ytquiroz

4 years

What an exciting day at #AAIC20 ! 😊Received the Grundke-Iqbal award for Alzheimer's research, gave a plenary lecture and got the chance to discuss my work with #DrScheltens , #DrFox and #DrRavindranath ?! 😍wow! without a doubt, the best birthday ever! 🥳 thank you all!🤗 #COLBOS

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Yakeel T. Quiroz, PhD (she/her)

@ytquiroz

2 years

Very proud of Dr @ClaraVilaPhD and everything she has accomplished so far! 🤩 Excited to share her most recent first-authored paper examining #SexDifferences in #CognitiveResilience in familial #Alzheimers 💫 Check it out!👍🏼 Congrats to all co-authors! 🥳 👉🏼

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Yakeel T. Quiroz, PhD (she/her)

@ytquiroz

3 years

When one of your PhD students gets three papers accepted for publication in a month!! #proudmentor 🤩 @joshfoxfuller , I'm sooooo proud of you and everything you have accomplished so far! 😍 It's an honor to be part of your training! 😊 Keep up the great work! #COLBOS @MGHmapp

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Yakeel T. Quiroz, PhD (she/her)

@ytquiroz

3 years

Are you looking for a postdoc position? interested in using neuroimaging & biomarkers to study risk & prevention in older Latinos?🤔Want to be part of one of the best multicultural research groups @harvardmed ?😊 @MGHmapp is looking for a fellow for the Boston Latino Aging Study👍🏼

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Yakeel T. Quiroz, PhD (she/her)

@ytquiroz

5 years

Deeply honored to have been selected as a recipient of the Mass General #MGH Ernesto Gonzalez Award for outstanding service to the Latino community 😊 Thanks very much to @MGHNeurology , @MGHPsychiatry , @MGHmapp , and all my friends and family for your continued support! 🥳

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Yakeel T. Quiroz, PhD (she/her)

@ytquiroz

9 months

Sooo excited to meet a Nobel laureate and got a chance to discuss my research with him 🤩🧠 Always inspired by the work of Dr. John O'Keefe on the hippocampus as a cognitive map, the entorhinal cortex, place cells, grid cells, and more…💫 A great honor to have met him!! 😊 thx!

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Yakeel T. Quiroz, PhD (she/her)

@ytquiroz

4 years

Did you hear that #AAIC20 is going to be virtual and FREE?! 😍 No excuses for missing out!! 👍🏼 Let’s make this #AAIC the most diverse and international mtg EVER! 🌎🌏💫 @ISTAART #DiversityPIA @alzassociation @DrMariaALZ @HeatherAlz @mlzuelsdorff @MGHmapp @gmbreads @hillcv17

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Yakeel T. Quiroz, PhD (she/her)

@ytquiroz

1 year

Thank you very much @INSneuro for this honor and recognition! 🤩 @MGHmapp @MGH_RI @MGHPsychiatry @MGHNeurology @MGHNeuroSci @neuroudea

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@INSneuro

1 year

Congratulations to our Early Career Award winner Dr. Yakeel Quiroz ( @yquiroz )! Catch her award talk, "Taking it to the extreme: The search for determinants of cognitive vulnerability and resilience in children with autosomal dominant AD" at 7:00 on Thursday in Pacific Ballroom E!

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Yakeel T. Quiroz, PhD (she/her)

@ytquiroz

2 years

Getting an @NIHDirector Early Independence Award (DP5) allowed me to become @MGH_RI faculty and pursue independent research soon after completion of my PhD. I was able to launch the #COLBOS study, which helped accelerate my career👍🏼 #ThankYouDrCollins 😊 You’ll be missed! @MGHmapp

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Yakeel T. Quiroz, PhD (she/her)

@ytquiroz

2 years

We just received IRB approval for the new @MGHmapp “Healthy Aging & Resilient Brain Study”👍🏼 We’ll be examining protective factors in multicultural individuals over the age of 80 (a.k.a super agers). Study will be available in English/Spanish/Portuguese 😊 @ResistAlz #ENDALZ

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Yakeel T. Quiroz, PhD (she/her)

@ytquiroz

2 years

Did you know that @ISTAART membership is now FREE for students? 🥳 Please let your students know about this great opportunity!! They should also know about all the Professional Interest Areas (PIAs) they can join, and all the new connections they can make!😊 Spread the word! 🤩

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Yakeel T. Quiroz, PhD (she/her)

@ytquiroz

1 year

We can do a better job with Spanish translations… 🫣🫠🙃 Madre mia!! 🫣 Then they wonder why their patients look confused 🤷🏼‍♀️

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Yakeel T. Quiroz, PhD (she/her)

@ytquiroz

3 years

So excited and grateful to receive one of the @alzassociation research grants! 🥳 yay! This one will help us advance our work with #ApoE #Christchurch and AD-related neurodegeneration 😊 Exciting! Thanks #AlzAssociation !👍🏼 @ResistAlz #COLBOS @MGH_RI @MGHNeurology @MGHmapp #ENDALZ

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Yakeel T. Quiroz, PhD (she/her)

@ytquiroz

3 years

Any ideas re how to explain to our colleagues that bilingual patients need to be assessed as bilingual patients, not as monolingual English-speakers? “do you speak English? great, so let’s do cognitive testing in English and use norms for English-speakers”🤷🏼‍♀️ @HispanicNS @MGHmarc

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Yakeel T. Quiroz, PhD (she/her)

@ytquiroz

3 years

👍🏼 So looking forward to the 2nd Latinos & Alzheimer’s Symposium in May! 😊 What an excellent program we have put together! 🤩 Thanks to our speakers and poster presenters! 👏🏼Thanks to the @alzassociation @ISTAART for making this event possible!! 💫 Register today! #AlzLatinos2021

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Yakeel T. Quiroz, PhD (she/her)

@ytquiroz

4 years

@chiarapack you can even use that opportunity to briefly introduce yourself and mention your research interests 😉

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Yakeel T. Quiroz, PhD (she/her)

@ytquiroz

2 years

🌟So excited to share our new @NatRevNeurol Perspective article where we discuss the need to integrate cultural factors into dementia research and care! Congrats to my co-authors! 🎉 @ClaraVilaPhD @joshfoxfuller @EdmarieGV ⁦ @MGH_RI ⁩ ⁦ @MGHmapp ⁩

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Yakeel T. Quiroz, PhD (she/her)

@ytquiroz

4 years

My son recently learned that some people call me “Dr Quiroz”, so he has decided to call me that instead of mommy 🤷🏼‍♀️ “Dr Quiroz, can I have more chocolate milk?” 😂 #parentsinacademia #parentsinscience

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Yakeel T. Quiroz, PhD (she/her)

@ytquiroz

3 years

Yay! We got IRB approval for the new Boston Latino Aging Study #BLAST !! 🥳 Please help us spread the word! 📢 We're looking for individuals older than 55! ALL study materials are available in English & Spanish. Our staff is fluent in English/Spanish/Portuguese!!😊 So exciting! 😍

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Yakeel T. Quiroz, PhD (she/her)

@ytquiroz

1 year

Two weeks since publication and the article has already been accessed 53K times 😱🎉 And it’s in the 99th %ile (ranked 92nd) of the 254,881 tracked articles of a similar age in all journals 🤩 Article Metrics - Resilience to autosomal dominant Alzheimer’s

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Yakeel T. Quiroz, PhD (she/her)

@ytquiroz

2 years

Big congrats to @joshfoxfuller on successfully defending his PhD thesis!🥳 Impressive research on biomarkers & working memory in the Colombian kindred w familial #Alzheimers ! 😊 You did it! Thanks, Josh! I’m sooo proud of you! 🤩 The 1st PhD out of @MGHmapp 🥂 @ACroninGolomb

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Yakeel T. Quiroz, PhD (she/her)

@ytquiroz

2 years

Our review was the @NatRevNeurol featured article for May! 😊 Check it out! 👍🏼 @MGH_RI @MGHNeuroSci @MGHNeurology @MGHmapp @MGHmarc @ADRCMass @ISTAART @alzassociation @ClaraVilaPhD @joshfoxfuller @EdmarieGV

Nat Rev Neurology

@NatRevNeurol

2 years

Our featured article for May: A cultural approach to dementia — insights from US Latino and other minoritized groups. Read it in full for free here:

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Yakeel T. Quiroz, PhD (she/her)

@ytquiroz

1 year

Soooo proud of @joshfoxfuller , PhD! 🎉 First PhD out of @mghmapp ! 🥳 Big congrats, Josh on your graduation! Thanks again for letting me be part of your training! What a privilege! Looking forward to collaborating with you!Thanks @ACroninGolomb for the opportunity to co-mentor!🤩

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Yakeel T. Quiroz, PhD (she/her)

@ytquiroz

2 years

📢 I’m looking for a research assistant to join my group and help us with MRI/fMRI analyses for a new study!👍🏼Previous knowledge of UNIX and programming and/or shell scripting is required. Please help me spread the word! 😊Thx @MGHmapp @MGHMartinos @HarvardAging @MGHGordon @OHBM

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Yakeel T. Quiroz, PhD (she/her)

@ytquiroz

10 months

When you thought you just got a cute teddy bear for your son… He: Is this a typical flower there? Me: 🫠

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Yakeel T. Quiroz, PhD (she/her)

@ytquiroz

2 years

Son (excited): Mom, we met a real scientist at school 😊 so cool! Me: Wait a minute… you know that daddy and I are scientists… He: You’re funny!! You guys aren’t scientists… You work with computers at an office and daddy just plays with mice… Me:

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Yakeel T. Quiroz, PhD (she/her)

@ytquiroz

3 years

We got the other signs!!! 🥳😍 So exciting! 💃🏻 Multicultural patients, clinicians and researchers welcome!! 👍🏼 @MGHmarc @PAduen16 @ClaraVilaPhD @EdmarieGV @dmunera12 @JairoEM47 @alex_Badil @MGHmapp

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Yakeel T. Quiroz, PhD (she/her)

@ytquiroz

4 years

Excited to share our recent work examining #plasma #NfL in over 2,000 members of the Colombian kindred with #familial #Alzheimers 👍🏼 Grateful and proud to have led this important international research collaboration! 😊 #ENDALZ @MGH_RI @MGHmapp @neuroudea

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Yakeel T. Quiroz, PhD (she/her)

@ytquiroz

3 years

Dear reviewers, please remember that many of the first authors of our papers are students and other junior colleagues, who have spent hours and hours working on those manuscripts, even more if English is not their first language. Be as kind & respectful as possible! Thanks! 👍🏼

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Yakeel T. Quiroz, PhD (she/her)

@ytquiroz

11 months

Happy 5th Anniversary to us @MGHmapp ! 🎉 Thanks to everyone who joined us in-person or remotely for our symposium/science celebration! 🥂 I’m soooo proud of everything we’ve accomplished in the past few years! 🥹Thanks again to the MAPP team for their support and hard work! 🤩😍

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Yakeel T. Quiroz, PhD (she/her)

@ytquiroz

3 years

Reminder to those leading diversity committees or task forces: It’s not ok to put pressure on those from diverse/underrepresented backgrounds to participate in these committees, especially when there are power differentials - and especially if they’re trainees 🤷🏼‍♀️ thanks!

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Yakeel T. Quiroz, PhD (she/her)

@ytquiroz

3 years

That time when an editor changed your "Colombia" to "Columbia" on a chapter about Colombia...😳🥴 Believe me, if a Colombian spells the name of the country with the letter O, it's very likely that that's the correct spelling 😉 I'm about to send back this gif as my response...

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Yakeel T. Quiroz, PhD (she/her)

@ytquiroz

3 years

Our intl. survey study on the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the well-being of older adults is finally out @EClinicalMed !😊Couldn’t be any prouder of the collaboration we put together for this study! It takes a village! Thanks & congrats to the team! 🥳

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Yakeel T. Quiroz, PhD (she/her)

@ytquiroz

4 years

wow! 20,000 article accesses in only 3 weeks! 😳 In the 99th %ile of the 246,949 tracked articles of a similar age in ALL journals, and in the 98th %ile of the tracked articles of a similar age in @NatureMedicine ! 👍🏼 So exciting! #ResistAlz #COLBOS @MGHmapp @MGH_RI @bualumni @UdeA

Nature Medicine

@NatureMedicine

5 years

Despite elevated brain #amyloid pathology, a unique human case harboring a rare mutation in #APOE is reported by @ytquiroz and colleagues to be resistant to inherited #Alzheimer ’s disease |

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Yakeel T. Quiroz, PhD (she/her)

@ytquiroz

3 years

📢 Can’t attend the full #AAIC21 conference, but don’t want to miss this year’s plenary speakers? Register for the No Cost Virtual Pass (Plenary Sessions Only) to get virtual access to the 10 plenary sessions!👍🏼 @LACCD9 @ISTAART #DiversityPIA @MGHmapp

Registration | AAIC | Alzheimer's Association

Join us July 28 – Aug. 1, 2024 in Philadelphia, USA, and online for AAIC 2024, the largest & most influential dementia research conference. Register now.

aaic.alz.org

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Yakeel T. Quiroz, PhD (she/her)

@ytquiroz

5 years

Thank you very much ⁦ @DrMariaALZ ⁩ and ⁦ @alzassociation ⁩ for supporting the 1st Latinos and Alzheimer’s Symposium! 🤗 #PuertoRico #AlzLatinos2019 #DiversityPIA ⁦ @ISTAART ⁩ ⁦ @MGHmapp ⁩ ⁦ @UsA2_Latinos ⁩ ⁦ @HispanicNS ⁩ ⁦ @MGH_RI ⁩ ⁦

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Yakeel T. Quiroz, PhD (she/her)

@ytquiroz

4 years

Some e-courses offered by Harvard for anyone with an interest in Neuroscience to join, completely free. @MGHmapp @GBHI_Fellows @ISTAART #DiversityPIA

Neuroscience

Browse the latest Neuroscience courses from Harvard University.

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Yakeel T. Quiroz, PhD (she/her)

@ytquiroz

2 years

Today I had the honor to give the annual #NIH Florence Mahoney Lecture on Aging. Mahoney’s advocacy and leadership helped create the National Institute on Aging @NIHAging So exciting to share our #COLBOS work with the NIH scientific community! Very grateful! 😊 #WomenInScience

NIH WALS

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Yakeel Quiroz @HarvardMed delivers annual #NIH lecture on #aging , on #Alzheimers . Fascinating insights from the #ColombianKindred with autosomal dominant AD — 6/8 3 p.m. ET at . @ytquiroz @HarvardAging @MGHmapp @MGHmarc #COLBOS @ResistAlz

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Yakeel T. Quiroz, PhD (she/her)

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4 years

wow, what an honor to be included in this group of outstanding Colombian scientists!! my friends and family are sooo excited! 😊 Thank you very much for including me Profe @zuluagageorge 😍 @MGHmapp @UdeA

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Yakeel T. Quiroz, PhD (she/her)

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1 year

I’ve been selected to present the Joe L. Martinez, Jr. and James G. Townsel Endowed Lectureship in the Summer Program in Neuroscience, Excellence and Success @MBL_SPINES at @MBLScience 😊 I’m forever grateful to SPINES, and Drs Martinez and Townsel 🥹 This is very special! Thanks

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Yakeel T. Quiroz, PhD (she/her)

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5 years

I saw a Latino patient for her 1st memory eval. She was already too impaired. I talked with the family about #Alzheimers , and they asked me if Alzheimer was the name of a disease😞💔We really need to do a better job educating our communities about memory disorders! ❤️🧠 @MGHmapp

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Yakeel T. Quiroz, PhD (she/her)

@ytquiroz

4 years

Uploaded my recorded presentation for one of the #AAIC20 plenaries! 😊Hope many of you register for the conference and join me for the plenary on “Resistance to autosomal dominant Alzheimer’s disease”-July 31st 👍🏼 @MGHmapp @MGH_RI @MGHNeuroSci More info:

Plenary Speakers | AAIC | Alzheimer's Association

Learn about the distinguished keynote speakers presenting at this year’s Alzheimer's Association International Conference.

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Yakeel T. Quiroz, PhD (she/her)

@ytquiroz

3 years

📢 Please RT: We’re currently looking to recruit a bilingual (Spanish/English) neuropsychologist to join our team at the Multicultural Assessment & Research Center @MGHmarc 😊 Feel free to DM or email me, if interested 👍🏼 @HispanicNS @INSneuro @Div40ECNPC @PAduen16 @NANneuropsych

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3 years

Latinos are at increased risk for dementia... still some providers don’t refer their Latino patients for neuropsych evals ☹️... When asked, they even said “well, they don’t report cognitive changes” Me: Did you ask? How are you asking? Are you using an interpreter? 🤷🏼‍♀️Refer them!

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Yakeel T. Quiroz, PhD (she/her)

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And we’re on our way to #AAIC23 ✈️ …and by “we” I mean half of passengers on this flight from Boston to Amsterdam 😊 #ENDALZ @HarvardAging @MGHmapp @MemoryAndAging

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Thanks so much #NIA for featuring our @NatureMedicine case report! #COLBOS #ResistAlz @MGHmapp @MassGeneralNews @alzassociation @JoeBalintfy Unique case of disease resistance reveals possible Alzheimer’s treatment

Unique case of disease resistance reveals possible Alzheimer’s

NIH-funded study identifies gene variant as potential drug target.

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👍🏼 FDA Approves First Drug to Image Tau Pathology in Patients Being Evaluated for Alzheimer’s Disease @MGHGordon @MGHMartinos @DrHeidiJacobs @relajoie @RikOssenkoppele @nfranzme @MGHmapp @Schultz_SA @BrianGordon81 @RabLab_UCSF

FDA Approves First Drug to Image Tau Pathology in Patients Being Evaluated for Alzheimer’s Disease

FDA approved Tauvid for IV injection, the first drug used to help image a distinctive characteristic of Alzheimer’s disease in the brain called tau pathology

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Yakeel T. Quiroz, PhD (she/her)

@ytquiroz

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On this day, six years ago, I was at #NIH receiving my @NIH_CommonFund Early Independence Award & presenting my HRHR research project (known now as #COLBOS ). So proud of everything we’ve accomplished this far, including my promotion to @harvardmed Associate Prof 🥳 Thank you all!

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What an exciting week! 😊Thanks for reading and sharing our @NatureMedicine case report!👍🏼 Some article metrics so far: 12K article accesses Tweeted by 3127 Picked up by 255 news outlets 😍 #ResistAlz @MassGeneralNews @MassEyeAndEar @UdeA @alzassociation @Alzheimers_NIH @MGHmapp

Nature Medicine

@NatureMedicine

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Despite elevated brain #amyloid pathology, a unique human case harboring a rare mutation in #APOE is reported by @ytquiroz and colleagues to be resistant to inherited #Alzheimer ’s disease |

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Yakeel T. Quiroz, PhD (she/her)

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Happy to announce that our @INSneuro #teleneuropsychology Special Interest Group-SIG has been approved! 🥳 Thanks to all who supported the application! Excited to Chair this new SIG with @UnaiDiazOrueta and @LuCrivelliOk ! Please consider joining us! 👍🏼 @Teleneuropsych @MGHmarc

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📢 Hot off the press: Findings from our 1st study on retinal biomarkers of #Alzheimers disease! #COLBOS 👍🏼Wonderful collaboration with @MassEyeAndEar colleagues!😊 @MGHmapp @ACroninGolomb @MGH_RI @MGHNeuroSci @neuroudea via @JAMAOphth part of @JAMANetwork

Retinal Imaging Findings in PSEN1-Associated Early-Onset Familial Alzheimer Disease

This cross-sectional imaging study evaluates whether optical coherence tomography can detect early retinal alterations in carriers of the presenilin 1 (PSEN1) E280A mutation who are cognitively...

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@ytquiroz

3 years

Check out the program of the @MGHmapp #ApoE Symposium!🧬🧠 Don’t miss out!! Join us on Jan 22nd to discuss the latest advances in ApoE research!👍 Make sure to use & follow #apoemtg2021 to take part in the conversation! @ApoEdscvr @ISTAART Registration

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@ytquiroz

3 years

Me after getting an email from a Latino community partner inviting me to speak to school-age kids, saying "quiero que los niños vean que con esfuerzo, dedicación y estudio se puede trascender e impactar la vida de muchas personas en esta sociedad...usted es un orgullo Hispano" 🥰

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Yakeel T. Quiroz, PhD (she/her)

@ytquiroz

4 years

yay!!👍our @NatureMedicine case report on #Alzheimers resistance was the most popular scientific paper published in November! Very exciting!!😊 #ResistAlz @NatureIndex @MassGeneralNews @MGH_RI @MGHmapp @MGHNeuroSci @MassEyeAndEar @UdeA @ISTAART @alzassociation @NIH @Alzheimers_NIH

Nature Index

@NatureIndex

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The 5 most popular scientific papers of November featured Alzheimer’s resistance and a black hole conundrum: @altmetric @ytquiroz @UniofNottingham @mootspoints

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Yakeel T. Quiroz, PhD (she/her)

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The @MGHmapp is now conducting an IRB-approved study examining the impact of #COVID19 on older #Latinos ' #wellbeing and #cognition .👍 Please help us spread the word! #RepresentationMatters @ISTAART #DiversityPIA @alzassociation @AlzDisInt @GBHI_Fellows @LAC_CDementia @HispanicNS

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@ytquiroz

4 years

who else is having mixed feelings about not being in #Amsterdam for #AAIC20 ?? 🙋🏼‍♀️ Love the fact that the virtual mtg will increase access to the scientific program 👍🏼 but I was looking forward to visiting the #Netherlands and presenting my 1st plenary lecture in person ☹️ @MGHmapp

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Yakeel T. Quiroz, PhD (she/her)

@ytquiroz

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Working with US Latino populations and #Alzheimers disease & related dementias? Interested in learning more abt this area and/or networking with experts in the field? 🤔 Save the date for the @alzassociation 4th Latinos & Alzheimer’s Symposium • April 3-5, 2024 • San Diego 🌎

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Yakeel T. Quiroz, PhD (she/her)

@ytquiroz

4 years

This slide from my plenary is quite special for our project! The art image shows a Colombian “silletera” carrying a flower arrangement with the hallmarks of #Alzheimers . It's based on an Antioquia's celebration, where the subject with the resistance phenotype hails from!😍 #AAIC20

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@ytquiroz

4 years

wow! More than 3k viewers joined for my Facebook Live talk about #Alzheimers disease and #memory ! 🤗 More than 80 live questions/comments! Just amazing!! 😊Thanks ⁦ @CancilleriaCol ⁩ and Consulate of Colombia in Boston for the invite!👍🏼 ⁦ @MGHmapp ⁩ ⁦ @MGHNeuroSci ⁩

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@ytquiroz

4 years

Celebrating at Harvard Square! 🎉🥳

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@ytquiroz

4 years

Anyone looking for a clinical fellowship in multicultural neuropsychology? if so, please DM 👍🏼 @MGHmapp @INSneuro @HispanicNS @TheAACN @NANneuropsych @PAduen16 @ClaraVilaPhD @EdmarieGV @d_schoemaker1 @joshfoxfuller @celpluim

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Sex differences in plasma p-tau181 associations with Alzheimer’s disease biomarkers, cognitive decline, and clinical progression | Molecular Psychiatry

Sex differences in plasma p-tau181 associations with Alzheimer’s disease biomarkers, cognitive...

Molecular Psychiatry - Sex differences in plasma p-tau181 associations with Alzheimer’s disease biomarkers, cognitive decline, and clinical progression

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Yakeel T. Quiroz, PhD (she/her)

@ytquiroz

3 years

RT: Join us virtually for the 2nd Latinos & Alzheimer’s Symposium, May 20-21 -free of charge 👍🏼 Register now & submit your abstracts!! 👇🏼Check out our exciting program! So looking forward to this one! 😊 #AlzLatinos2021 @ISTAART #DiversityPIA @MGHmapp

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Yakeel T. Quiroz, PhD (she/her)

@ytquiroz

4 years

Do you know a postdoc fellow with experience in neuroimaging methods (MRI/PET imaging), dementia research, and a strong publication record, who may be looking for a more senior postdoc? If so, please have them contact me! 😊 I need one for @MGHmapp !👍🏼 #COLBOS #ResistAlz Plz RT

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@ytquiroz

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Thanks @alzassociation for supporting the research in my lab!! 😊 Excited to share that two of our @MGHmapp investigators were awarded fellowship grants!🥳 Big congrats @steph_langella and @PAduen16 ! 👏🏼 very well-deserved! sooo proud of you #COLBOS #BLASTbio @MGHNeurology @MGH_RI

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Yakeel T. Quiroz, PhD (she/her)

@ytquiroz

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If you or someone you know maybe interested in doing a postdoc fellowship with us studying exercise/physical activity and biomarkers in older Latinos, please DM for more details!👍🏼 ⁦ @MGHmapp ⁩ #BostonLatinoAgingStudy #BLASTbio #HealthyAging #ENDALZ 🧠

How exercise may help prevent Alzheimer's

Exercise could be a powerful defense against Alzheimer’s disease. Three dementia researchers explain how it works.

www.pbs.org

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Yakeel T. Quiroz, PhD (she/her)

@ytquiroz

4 years

📢RT: Looking for postdoc fellows to work on #brain imaging & #biomarkers of resistance to #Alzheimers disease 👍🏼 Passion for #neuroscience and experience with MRI/PET is desired. Research with @MGHmapp @MGHMartinos @HarvardAging @harvardmed @MGHNeuroSci

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Yakeel T. Quiroz, PhD (she/her)

@ytquiroz

4 years

After 8yrs at the #MGH Psych Assessment Ctr, I’ve decided that it’s time to move onto the next chapter. It’s not an easy thing to do when you care as much for the #MUNDOS clinic as I do ☹️Look forward to using my knowledge & passion to continue advancing #multicultural #science 👍🏼

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Yakeel T. Quiroz, PhD (she/her)

@ytquiroz

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Thanks to the Colombian community in Massachusetts for the recognition at the “Gala Independencia de Colombia” 🤩 Sooo exciting! Congrats to all awardees, especially to my dear colleague #AngieSanchezMD @MGHmapp @MGHEquity @MGHCAREResearch 🇨🇴 #BostonLatinoAgingStudy #BLASTbio

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A big shout out to the #AlzLatinos2022 executive committee members! 🎉Thanks SO much for all the help!👏🏼 Maria Corrada, Monica Rosselli, Claire Sexton, Miriam Rodriguez, Maria Carrillo, Miguel Arce Renteria, Maria Mora Pinzon, Karen Dorsman, Ashley Hansen, Serggio Lanata @ISTAART

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Yakeel T. Quiroz, PhD (she/her)

@ytquiroz

3 years

Big congrats to the amazing Dr Reisa Sperling on her election to the National Academy of Medicine “for pioneering clinical research that revolutionized the concept of preclinical Alzheimer’s disease”🥳 @HarvardAging @MGHNeurology @BWHNeurology @harvardmed @alzassociation @MGH_RI

National Academy of Medicine

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Congratulations and welcome to the 100 new members elected today to the National Academy of Medicine! #NAMmtg

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3 years

Me after noticing that I’m the only woman in a panel and the only one that is not listed as Dr. in the program 😳 We need to do better!! 👍🏼 For the record, I do have a PhD, so Dr. Quiroz, please! 💫

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Excited to have contributed to this important study, published @JAMANetworkOpen !👍🏼We still have a long way to go to make #Alzheimers clinical trials more inclusive & representative, but I'm glad this work is being done. Check it out! @HarvardAging @MGHmapp

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RT 🥳 Exciting news! @MGHmarc 's 2-year #Multicultural Neuropsychology Fellowship just got approved by the #MassGenBrigham Graduate Medical Education!👍 Are you interested in getting your postdoc training with us? Contact us!😊 @PAduen16 @HispanicNS @INSneuro @Div40ANST @Div40ECNPC

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Yakeel T. Quiroz, PhD (she/her)

@ytquiroz

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Are you doing research on #ApoE or are interested in learning more about it? want to meet colleagues with similar interests & explore potential collaborations?🤔If so, please join us in January for the @MGHmapp #ApoE Symposium! Free & virtual! Submit your abstracts now! @ISTAART

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@ytquiroz

4 years

My son just asked me why Kamala is vice-president instead of co-president 😍

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@ytquiroz

5 years

Ready to celebrate Dr Reisa Sperling’s Distinguished Chair in Neurology! 🥳 We think the world of you, Reisa - your science rocks! This is soooo well-deserved! 🥂 We are very proud of you! 🤗 woohoo! 🤩 ⁦ @MGHmapp ⁩ ⁦ @bucklr01 ⁩ ⁦ @DrHeidiJacobs ⁩ @rivkae

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Yakeel T. Quiroz, PhD (she/her)

@ytquiroz

10 months

Had a great time presenting our work on #APOE3Christchurch heterozygosity in the Colombian kindred with familial #Alzheimers at #AAIC23 🤩 Thanks @AtypicalPIA for organizing this excellent symposium and for the invitation! 😊 #ENDALZ #COLBOS

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Yakeel T. Quiroz, PhD (she/her)

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2 years

Thrilled to see our latest work with the Colombian families with #Alzheimers out in @PNASNews ! 🥳 Check it out! Big congrats to co-first authors @EdmarieGV & @IbaiDiezPalacio , and all coauthors on this achievement! 👏🏼 Sooo proud of the #COLBOS team! 🤩 👉🏼

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wow! I was just reminded by FB that I joined #MGH ten years ago as a predoctoral intern 🙃 I can’t believe it has been already ten yrs! 😳 from predoc to postdoc to junior faculty to associate prof 😎 we’ve come a long way! 😊 thx to all my mentors, mentees & colleagues! @MGHmapp

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@ytquiroz

3 years

Paper finally accepted for publication! 🥳 I couldn't be any prouder of the international team that has been working with @MGHmapp to study the impact of COVID-19 on the well-being of older adults living in the US & Latin America!👍🏼 #teamwork Thank you! @gmbreads @Valeria_LTorres

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