Dr. Kristen George is an Assistant Professor of Epidemiology in the Department of Public Health Sciences at the University of California, Davis, School of Medicine. She received her BA in Political Science with minors in Public Health and Anthropology from Washington University in St. Louis. She received her MPH and PhD in Epidemiology with a minor in Biostatistics from the University of Minnesota. Her research focuses on lifecourse vascular contributions to dementia and cognitive aging with a particular interest in race and sex disparities. She is also interested in the role of structural and social determinants of health on cardiovascular and dementia outcomes.