UC San Diego School of Medicine
Alejandra Morlett Paredes, PhD, a native of Tijuana, Baja California, is a post-doctoral Fellow in the Study of Latinos-Investigation of Neurocognitive Aging (SOL-INCA) lab at the University of California San Diego (UCSD). Her work is focused on understanding the barriers and attitudes of older Latinos towards participating in Alzheimer's Disease research, specifically research that requires invasive procedures (e.g., brain autopsies). Dr. Morlett received her PhD in health psychology from Virginia Commonwealth University and completed a 2-year NIMH T32 research fellowship in geriatric mental health at UCSD. Dr. Morlett has been involved in various efforts to develop normative data for a number of neuropsychological tests in Spanish-Speaking adults living in the US and Latin America.