Dr. Lisa Mosconi, PhD, is an associate professor of Neuroscience in Neurology and Radiology at Weill Cornell Medicine/NY-Presbyterian Hospital, where she serves as director of the Alzheimer’s Prevention Program at Weill Cornell Medicine, which includes the National Institute of Health (NIH)-funded Women’s Brain Initiative, the award-winning Alzheimer’s Prevention Clinic, and the Alzheimer’s Prevention Clinical Trials Unit.
Previously, she was a faculty member at the Department of Psychiatry of New York University (NYU) School of Medicine. Dr. Mosconi currently serves as Program Director at Wellcome Leap, working directly with Dr. Regina Dugan, the former director of DARPA and Wellcome Leap CEO.
Dr. Mosconi holds a PhD degree in Neuroscience and Nuclear Medicine. A world-renowned neuroscientist, she ranks in the top 1% of scientists of the past two decades by official metrics. Recognized by The Times as one of the 17 most influential living female scientists and honored in ELLE 100: Women That Are Changing The World, Dr. Mosconi has been praised as “the Mona Lisa of Neuroscience” by ELLE International.
Dr. Mosconi’s research is focused on the early detection and prevention of cognitive aging and Alzheimer’s disease in at-risk individuals, especially women, using brain imaging techniques such as positron emission tomography and magnetic resonance imaging. She is passionately interested in how risk of memory loss and dementia can be prevented through the combination of appropriate medical care and lifestyle modifications involving diet, physical and intellectual fitness.
She is the author of the New York Times, USA Today, Canada #1 Health & Fitness, and The Sunday Times bestselling THE MENOPAUSE BRAIN (2024); of the New York Times, USA Today, Publishers Weekly, and Der Spiegel bestselling THE XX BRAIN (2020); and of the Amazon bestselling BRAIN FOOD (2018), which have been published in over 25 countries and translated into more than 15 languages. Dr. Mosconi’s popular TED talk “How menopause affects the brain” has been viewed over 4 million times since its release.