Lisa L. Barnes, PhD is the Alla V. and Solomon Jesmer Professor of Gerontology and Geriatric Medicine and a cognitive neuropsychologist within the Rush Alzheimer’s Disease Center at Rush University Medical Center. She is also the Associate Director of the Rush Alzheimer’s Disease Research Center. 

Dr. Barnes received her PhD in biopsychology from the University of Michigan and completed a three-year NIH post-doctoral fellowship in cognitive neuroscience at the University of California-Davis. She joined the faculty of Rush University as an assistant professor in 1999. 

Dr. Barnes is internationally recognized for her contributions to minority aging and minority health. Her work is focused on the epidemiology of aging and racial differences in chronic diseases of aging. She has published extensively on cognitive aging in older African Americans and has received numerous awards and honors for her work in minority communities.

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