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Carol A. Derby, PhD (she/her/hers)

Professor
Albert Einstein College of Medicine
Bronx, New York, United States

Carol Derby, PhD, is a cardiovascular epidemiologist and a Professor of Neurology and of Epidemiology and Population Health and the Feil Faculty Scholar within the Saul R. Korey Department of Neurology at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine in the Bronx, NY. She received her doctoral training in Epidemiology at The Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health. Her research has long focused on population-based cardiovascular disease prevention, cardiovascular disease in women during midlife, and the relation between vascular health and cognitive decline and Alzheimer’s Disease in older adults. Dr. Derby is currently mPI of the NIA funded Study of Women’s Health Across the Nation (SWAN) for which she directs the New Jersey site. She is mPI for the NIA funded Einstein Aging Study Program Project which is applying ambulatory and conventional approaches to identify early modifiable risk factors for cognitive decline including a project that is evaluating both day-to-day and long term effects of sleep quality on cognitive function. Dr. Derby is a fellow of the American Heart Association Council on Epidemiology and Prevention; has served on the editorial board of the Women’s Midlife Health Journal, is a peer reviewer for a number of journals and has been a member of NIA study sections In addition to her research interests, Dr. Derby is an active educator, mentoring K trainees and post-docs, directing Einstein’s first year medical school course in epidemiology , and directing the grant writing course sequence within the Einstein Center for Clinical and Translational Research Clinical Research Master’s degree program.

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