Affiliation: Center for Health Outcomes and Interdisciplinary Research (CHOIR), Massachusetts General Hospital/Harvard Medical School

Dr. Vranceanu is a clinical health psychologist, the David T. Rovee PhD and Joanne V. Rovee Professor of Psychology at Harvard Medical School, and Founding Director of the Center for Health Outcomes and Interdisciplinary Research at Massachusetts General Hospital. Her research program focuses on improving the lives of older adults, those with serious illness, their family caregivers and dyads in both hospital and community settings, with a strong emphasis on dementia/dementia care and dyadic interventions. She has extensive expertise with the development, testing, and implementation of behavioral and lifestyle interventions using the NIH Stage Model and Science of Behavior Change principles. Dr. Vranceanu has a strong passion for teaching and mentoring and co-leads the Bridge the Gap T32, the Dementia Palliative Care R25,  the Research and Education Core of the MGH Dementia Resource Center for Minority Aging Research and the Lifespan Health Track of the MGH Internship in Clinical Psychology.