Assistant Professor
Rush University Medical Center
Puja Agarwal, Ph.D., is a nutritional epidemiologist with the Rush Alzheimer's Disease Center and an assistant professor in the Department of Internal Medicine, Section of Epidemiology Research, and the Department of Clinical Nutrition. Her research focuses on identifying the role of dietary factors for Alzheimer's disease, dementia, motor outcomes, and disability among diverse older adults and further understanding the mechanistic links between diet and Alzheimer's disease pathology in the aging brain. She diligently worked on the MIND diet and its dietary component relation with parkinsonian signs, Alzheimer's disease, and other outcomes in older adults from different cohorts and is also involved in clinical trials using the MIND diet intervention for cognitvie outcomes.