Duke Han, PhD

Duke Han, PhD, is a Diplomate of the American Board of Professional Psychology in Clinical Neuropsychology; a Fellow of the American Psychological Association, the National Academy of Neuropsychology, and the International Neuropsychological Society; and a tenured Professor of Psychology, Family Medicine, Neurology, and Gerontology at the University of Southern California. He received his Bachelor of Science degree in Psychology with a specialization in Neuroscience from Duke University, and his PhD in Clinical Psychology from the University of Massachusetts Boston. He received training in clinical neuropsychology and experimental neuroimaging through various programs of Harvard Medical School’s Brigham and Women’s Hospital. He continued his clinical neuropsychology and neuroimaging activities during his clinical internship and postdoctoral fellowship years at the University of California San Diego (UCSD) and the San Diego VA Healthcare System. He maintains an active research collaboration with the Rush Alzheimer’s Disease Center (RADC) in Chicago where he was formerly a tenured faculty member.

Dr. Han is interested in factors that impact cognition and decision making in aging. He also has special interests in leveraging novel empirical approaches to better understand these factors. In addition to directing his own extramurally-funded research lab, he serves as the Co-Leader of the Research and Education Core for the USC Alzheimer’s Disease Research Center (ADRC), Co-Director of the Scientific Research Network in Decision Neuroscience of Aging (SRNDNA), Co-Director of the Open Measurement Network Initiative for Alzheimer’s Disease and Related Dementias (OMNI ADRD), and the Editor-In-Chief of The Journals of Gerontology Series B: Psychological Sciences. He was the recipient of the prestigious Paul B. Beeson fellowship, which is considered the premiere career development award of the National Institute on Aging (NIA), and has been actively involved in the peer-review of aging and Alzheimer’s Disease research grants, including serving as the Chair of the NIA Clinical and Translational Research of Aging review committee (NIA-T) and the Neuroscience of Aging review committee (NIA-N). Dr. Han is a founding governance member of the Global Council on Brain Health, an international independent science collaborative convened by AARP that is tasked with offering the aging public the best advice about brain health. He is also a member of the Scientific Advisory Board for the Alzheimer’s Disease Neuroimaging Initiative (ADNI), and was a member of the American Psychological Association (APA) Presidential Task Force on Neuropsychological Test Norming in Diverse Populations. Dr. Han has served as an oral examiner for the board certification process for the American Board of Clinical Neuropsychology (ABCN), and was a former Co-Chair of the Dementia Special Interest Group (SIG) of the International Neuropsychological Society (INS). He currently holds multiple service or mentorship roles in the International Neuropsychological Society (INS), the National Academy of Neuropsychology (NAN), the American Academy of Clinical Neuropsychology (AACN), the Society for Clinical Neuropsychology (Division 40) of the APA, and the Asian Neuropsychological Association (ANA). His work has been featured in multiple media outlets, including CNN, Reuters, CBS, PBS, Forbes, Fox Business News, and U.S. News and World Report.

• International Neuropsychological Society: Nelson Butters Award, 2006
• American Psychological Association: Division 40 Blue Ribbon Award, 2012
• National Institutes of Aging/AFAR: Paul B. Beason Award for Aging Research, 2012
   – 2017
• AARP and AgeUK: Global Council on Brain Health Governance Member, 2015
   – 2018

• Duke University, Durham, NC — BS — 05/1998 — Psychology/Neuroscience
• University of Massachusetts Boston, Boston, MA — PhD — 12/2004 — Clinical Psychology/Neuropsychology

• THE NIH Open Measures Network Initiative (OMNI): Evaluating and Advancing Cognitive Measures for AD/ADRD Prevention Trials
  NIH · U24AG092760 · Aug 1, 2025 – Jul 31, 2030 · Role: Co-Principal Investigator
• Mid-Career Development and Mentoring on Financial Vulnerability and Alzheimer's Disease
  NIH · K24AG081325 · Apr 1, 2023 – Jan 31, 2028 · Role: Principal Investigator
• Finance, Cognition, and Default Network in Aging (FCDNA)
  NIH · R01AG068166 · May 1, 2021 – Apr 30, 2026 · Role: Principal Investigator
• Finance, Cognition, and Default Network in Aging (FCDNA)
  NIH · RF1AG068166 · May 1, 2021 – Apr 30, 2024 · Role: Principal Investigator
• Racial Differences in Decision Making among Older Adults
  NIH · R01AG055430 · Jul 15, 2017 – Apr 30, 2022 · Role: Principal Investigator
• Neural Correlates of Impaired Financial & Health Care Decision-Making in Old Age
  NIH · K23AG040625 · Aug 15, 2012 – Jul 31, 2017 · Role: Principal Investigator

• Alzheimer's test: Mental skills exam could detect disease years before symptoms develop (06/12/2017)
• KNX-AM and KCBS-AM Interviews With Dr. Duke Han (06/06/2017)
• Detecting Alzheimer's disease before symptoms emerge (05/31/2017)
• OSP Scholar Spotlight: Dr. S. Duke Han
• Brain scans offer insights into loss of money skills
• Variant linked to Alzheimer's may make you smarter

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