Julie Zissimopoulos, PhD

Biography

Julie M. Zissimopoulos is a Professor in the Sol Price School of Public Policy at the University of Southern California. In addition to her faculty appointment, she is a Senior Scholar at the USC Schaeffer Institute and Co-Director of the Aging and Cognition Research Program. She is Director of the USC Alzheimer’s Disease and Alzheimer’s Disease Related Dementias Resource Center for Minority Aging Research (USC AD/ADRD RCMAR) and the Center for Advancing Sociodemographic and Economic Study of Alzheimer’s Disease and Related Dementias (CeASES-ADRD), both focused on reducing burden of Alzheimer’s disease and funded by the National Institute on Aging (NIA).

Dr. Zissimopoulos’ current research focuses on economic costs of dementia, impacts of dementia on care partners, the use of and response to drug therapies for non-dementia conditions that influence risk of dementia; racial and ethnic disparities in diagnosis and health care treatment for dementia; and population measures of dementia using Medicare claims and survey data.

Published research appeared in Journal of the American Medical Association Neurology, Journal of Gerontology Social Science, Journal of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Journal of Health Economics and Alzheimer’s and Dementia. Her research on the economics of aging is disseminated through media outlets such as the New York Times, Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, CNN, National Public Radio.

Dr. Zissimopoulos received her B.A. summa cum laude from Boston College, her M.A. from Columbia University, and a Ph.D. in economics from the University of California, Los Angeles.