Lena Sannemann, M.Sc. Psychology, is a PhD student at the University of Cologne. In 2017, she joined Prof. Dr. Frank Jessen’s clinical dementia research group at the Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, University Hospital Cologne, and is currently working at the Center for Memory Disorders and the Cologne Alzheimer’s Prevention Center. For her PhD, she focuses on neuropsychiatric changes in at risk-states for AD dementia, such as subjective cognitive decline, and their development along the Alzheimer’s disease continuum.

For the EU-IMI2 funded project MOPEAD (Models of Patient Engagement for Alzheimer's Disease), she was responsible for implementing and carrying out Alzheimer’s disease pre-screening strategies in four different settings in Cologne. Currently, she is involved in a project that focuses on the quality of health care in patients with coronary heart disease and mental disorders (MenDis-CHD II) as part of the Cologne Care Research and Development Network (CoRe-Net).

The photo credit is Michael Wodak / MedizinFotoKöln.