Lisa Mosconi, Ph.D.
Associate professor of neuroscience in Neurology and Radiology at Weill Cornell Medicine (WCM) and director of the Alzheimer’s Prevention Program at WCM/New York-Presbyterian Hospital
Lisa Mosconi, Ph.D., is an associate professor of neuroscience in Neurology and Radiology at Weill Cornell Medicine (WCM), and the director of the Alzheimer’s Prevention Program at WCM/New York-Presbyterian Hospital. The program includes the Women’s Brain Initiative, the Alzheimer’s Prevention Clinic, and the Alzheimer’s Prevention Clinical Trials Unit.
Dr. Mosconi holds a Ph.D. degree in neuroscience and nuclear medicine from the University of Florence, Italy. A world-renowned neuroscientist, she is ranked amongst the top 1% of scientists of the past 20 years by official metrics and was listed as one of the 17 most influential living female scientists by The Times and called “the Mona Lisa of Neuroscience” by ELLE International.
Dr. Mosconi’s NIH-funded research is focused on the early detection and prevention of cognitive aging and Alzheimer’s disease in at-risk individuals, especially women, using brain imaging techniques such as positron emission tomography and magnetic resonance imaging. Dr. Mosconi is passionately interested in how risk of memory loss and dementia can be prevented through the combination of appropriate medical care and lifestyle modifications involving diet, physical and intellectual fitness.
She is the author of the New York Times bestselling The XX Brain (2020) and of the international bestseller Brain Food (2018), which have been translated into more than 15 languages. Her latest book is The Menopause Brain (2024). Dr. Mosconi’s TED talk “How menopause affects the brain” has been viewed over 2 million times in the first three months since its release.
Dr. Mosconi has published over 150 peer-reviewed papers in prestigious medical journals, and her work has been presented at many international conferences.
