Sophia Wang, MD

Dr. Wang is an Associate Professor of Clinical Psychiatry and Neurology at Indiana University (IU), the Wesley P. Martin Endowed Scholar for Alzheimer’s Education, and an ABPN board-certified geriatric psychiatrist. She currently serves as the National Institute on Aging (NIA)-designated Indiana Alzheimer’s Disease Research Center (IADRC) Outreach, Recruitment, and Engagement Core (OREC) Leader and the co-chair of the NINDS-funded NeuroNext DEIA committee. She was a past NACC OREC Steering Committee Chair (2022-2023) and Member (2021-2024). She also serves as the faculty advisor to the IADRC Community Advisory Board, which has received national recognition for its outreach, recruitment, and engagement activities. Dr. Wang also serves as a mentor for a wide range of trainees, including undergraduates, medical students, graduate students, and junior faculty of various career tracks (clinicians, researchers, clinician-researchers).  Her junior faculty mentees who are from historically underrepresented groups have gone on to successfully receive competitive funding from the NIH Loan Repayment Program and the RCMAR pilot award program. Her current and recent NIH funding portfolio include being the PI for on an NIA-funded K23 focuses on the relationship between delirium and ADRD, an NIA-funded R01 to test an online cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) for reduce subjective cognitive concerns and slow cognitive decline in older intensive care unit (ICU) survivors, an NIA-funded R21 focused on ADRD mechanisms in COVID-19 ICU survivors, and an Alzheimer’s Association funded LEADS diversity supplement. Dr. Wang is also co-investigator on an NIA-funded National Alzheimer’s Coordinating Center (NACC) supplement focused on COVID-19, and an IADRC P30 site supplement to develop novel recruitment strategies for African American and Black older adults to participate in ADRD biomarker research.