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Assistant Professor of Medicine at Stanford University
Pascal Geldsetzer is an Assistant Professor of Medicine in the Division of Primary Care and Population Health at Stanford University, also holding a courtesy appointment in Epidemiology and Population Health. He is affiliated with multiple interdisciplinary institutes—including the Wu Tsai Neurosciences Institute’s Brain Resilience initiative, Stanford’s Department of Biomedical Data Science and Health Policy, and centers devoted to population health, AI in medicine, and global health. His research targets interventions that improve health in older adults, leveraging natural quasi-experiments and large-scale electronic health data to infer causal effects. A recipient of the NIH New Innovator Award and a Chan Zuckerberg Biohub investigatorship in 2022—along with NIH R01 grants in 2023 and 2024—he is also recognized with a Young Investigator Award from the American Diabetes Association.
Visit website: https://profiles.stanford.edu/pascal-geldsetzer
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Research shows a 20% drop in dementia cases among older adults who received Zostavax