Affiliation: Geriatric Psychiatry, Center for Racial Equity and Justice, Massachusetts General Hospital/Harvard Medical School

Dr. Okereke is a board-certified geriatric psychiatrist, Director of Geriatric Psychiatry and Director of the MGH Psychiatry Center for Racial Equity and Justice in the Department of Psychiatry at MGH, Associate Professor of Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School, and Associate Professor in Epidemiology at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. Her research is focused on identifying modifiable risk factors in adverse mental aging, prevention, and community-engaged research for promotion of equity and reduction of health disparities. She has led numerous projects with the support of NIH and other funding sources and has been extensively involved in organizational leadership, community volunteering, and education in ADRD over the past two decades. Dr. Okereke has mentored over 40 faculty members, fellows, residents, interns, and students and provides teaching and mentoring to scholars in psychiatry and/or geriatric mental health (2 T32 and 3 R25 programs).