Education
1997 BA University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA 1999 MS The Pennsylvania State University, PA 2001 PhD The Pennsylvania State University, PA 2003 Post Doctoral Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of PublicHealth
Baltimore, MD 2007 Post Doctoral National Institute on Aging; Laboratory of Epidemiology,
Demography and Biometry, Bethesda, MD |
Research and Teaching Interests
Dr. Jane Saczynski is an Assistant Professor of Medicine in the Division of Geriatric Medicine at the University of Massachusetts Medical School. She is a neuroepidemiologist with research interests in cardiovascular disease and the risk for cognitive decline and dementia in middle aged and older adults. Within large-scale epidemiologic studies she has looked at how cardiovascular diseases, such as diabetes and dyslipidemia, are related to cognitive impairment, brain changes and dementia. Her current work is examining the role of cognitive impairment in the performance of self-care activities in patients with chronic diseases such as congestive heart failure. |
Keywords
Dementia, cognition, cognitive decline, Alzheimer’s Disease, epidemiology, cardiovascular disease |
Selected Publications
| 1. | Saczynski JS, Spencer FA, Gore JM, Gurwitz JH, Yarzebski J, Lessard D, Goldberg RJ, PhD. Twenty-year trends in the incidence rates of stroke complicating acute myocardial infarction: The Worcester Heart Attack Study. Archives of Internal Medicine. 2008;168:2104-2110. |
| 2. | Saczynski JS, Jonsdottir M, Garcia ME, Jonsson PV, Peila R, Kjartansson O, Eiriksdottir G, Olafsdottir E, Gudnason V, Harris T, Launer LJ. Cognitive impairment: An increasingly important complication of type 2 diabetes. The Age Gene Environment Susceptibility Reykjavik Study (AGES- Reykjavik). American Journal of Epidemiology. 2008;168:1132-1139. |
| 3. | Saczynski JS, Sigurdsson S, Jonsdottir MK, Eiriksdottir G, Jonsson PV, Garcia ME, Kjartansson O, Lopez O, van Buchem MA, Gudnason V, Launer LJ. Cerebral infarcts and cognitive performance: Importance of location and number of infarcts. The Age, Gene/Environment Susceptibility – Reykjavik Study. Stroke. 2009;40:677-682. |
| 4. | Saczynski JS, Darling CE, Spencer FA, Lessard D, Gore JM, Goldberg RJ. Clinical Features, Treatment Practices, and Outcomes of Older Patients Hospitalized with Decompensated Heart Failure. Journal of the American Geriatrics Society (In Press). | | 5. | Saczynski J, Gurwitz J, Goldberg R, Magid D, Smith D, Sung SH, Go A. PS2-34: Patterns of Complex Comorbidity in Older Patients with Heart Failure. Clin Med Res. 2011 Nov;9(3-4):151. PubMed PMID: 22090547. |
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