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Amy L. Byers, PhD, MPH (she/her/hers)

Professor / Research Career Scientist
UCSF / San Francisco VA Health Care System
San Francisco, California, United States

Dr. Amy Byers leads an independent program and oversees the Byers Lab. Dr. Byers is a Research Career Scientist at the San Francisco VA Health Care System, and Professor of Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences and Medicine (Division of Geriatrics) at UCSF. The Byers Lab focuses on determining the incidence, prevalence, risk factors, and outcomes of late-life mental health disorders and behaviors, with a focus on late-life suicide and neuropsychiatric disorders using large, epidemiologic, and administrative datasets that include national probability samples, VA data, Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services data, and national suicide attempt and death data. The Byers Lab has been funded by several agencies, including NIH (i.e., NIMH, NIA, and NIMHD), Department of Defense, and VA. Dr. Byers is PI of the first VA R01-level grant longitudinally investigating suicide and suicidal behavior at a national level in older U.S. Veterans. Dr. Byers’ NIH-funded research program (NIMH, NIA) currently focuses on suicide and suicide-related behaviors and dementia risk among older Veterans and individuals reentering the community from incarceration. Furthermore, Dr. Byers has been funded by NIA to study long-term neuropsychiatric sequelae of SARS-CoV-2 infection in late life.

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