Tasneem Khambaty, Ph.D.

Dr. Khambaty is a clinical health psychologist with specialty research and clinical training in cardiometabolic disease physiology, epidemiology, prevention, and management. Within the broader field of Cardiovascular Behavioral Medicine, which is concerned with the interrelations among biopsychosocial factors and cardiometabolic health and disease, she aims to identify early vulnerabilities to cardiometabolic disease development and related accelerated cognitive and functional decline from a lifespan development perspective. 
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Collaborating with researchers and clinicians across multiple institutions and disciplines, she is pursuing  four interrelated lines of research: 
(a) examining the unique and shared aspects of psychosocial factors implicated in the development and management of cardiometabolic disease;
(b) investigating sociodemographic disparities in cardiometabolic disease and cognitive health;
(c) clarifying the link between T2DM pathophysiology, premature cognitive aging, and functional decline; and
(d) characterizing the relations of glucose variability to neurocognitive function before T2DM onset.
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This clinical translational research program at the interface of behavioral medicine and aging will ultimately inform the development of practical, culturally sensitive, interventions that leverage technology to help to prevent common chronic diseases of our aging population and preserve cognitive function into later life.