Dr. Bernadette D’Alonzo is a postdoctoral research fellow in the Neurology Department at the University of Pennsylvania in her first year, supported by the NIH NINDS Brain Injury Training Grant (T32 NS 043126). She has 28 peer-reviewed publications in print or in press, including 9 first-author publications that reflect her background in public health, and social and behavioral research applied to injury. Bernadette completed her PhD in Epidemiology at Penn in 2024 and MPH in 2017. Her current work as a postdoc examines the role of interpersonal factors (i.e., social relationships/social engagement and social isolation) on long-term cognitive and ADRD outcomes after TBI, and the health of spouse-caregivers as members of an injured individual’s social network.
Sex Differences in Concussion Recovery
