Jet Vonk, PhD

Asst. Professor in Residence
M_Neurology

Jet Vonk is an Assistant Professor of Neurology at the Memory and Aging Center of the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF). She earned her first PhD in Speech-Language-Hearing Sciences from the City University of New York Graduate Center, with a specialization in neurolinguistics and cognitive science, and her second PhD in Epidemiology with a specialization in medical statistics from Utrecht University. Her research focuses on developing innovative, language-based cognitive tools for early diagnosis and longitudinal monitoring of Alzheimer’s disease and frontotemporal dementia. She authored over 50 scientific articles and her contributions have been recognized through several grants, including a Fulbright Scholarship, Dutch Veni Award, and NIH K99/R00 Award. A complete list of published peer-reviewed work is available here:
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/myncbi/jet.vonk.1/bibliography/public/

Publications

Consideration of sex and gender in Alzheimer's disease and related disorders from a global perspective.

Alzheimer's & dementia : the journal of the Alzheimer's Association

Mielke MM, Aggarwal NT, Vila-Castelar C, Agarwal P, Arenaza-Urquijo EM, Brett B, Brugulat-Serrat A, DuBose LE, Eikelboom WS, Flatt J, Foldi NS, Franzen S, Gilsanz P, Li W, McManus AJ, van Lent DM, Milani SA, Shaaban CE, Stites SD, Sundermann E, Suryadevara V, Trani JF, Turner AD, Vonk JMJ, Quiroz YT, Babulal GM, Diversity and Disparity Professional Interest Area Sex and Gender Special Interest Group

Education differentially contributes to cognitive reserve across racial/ethnic groups.

Alzheimer's & dementia : the journal of the Alzheimer's Association

Avila JF, Rentería MA, Jones RN, Vonk JMJ, Turney I, Sol K, Seblova D, Arias F, Hill-Jarrett T, Levy SA, Meyer O, Racine AM, Tom SE, Melrose RJ, Deters K, Medina LD, Carrión CI, Díaz-Santos M, Byrd DR, Chesebro A, Colon J, Igwe KC, Maas B, Brickman AM, Schupf N, Mayeux R, Manly JJ