Psychiatric Epidemiologist, Johns Hopkins
Dr. Alden Gross is a psychiatric epidemiologist in the Department of Epidemiology at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health (JHSPH) with a substantive research interest in cognitive aging and mental health. Dr. Gross maintains a strong methodological background, with specialized training in statistical methods including multilevel modeling, longitudinal data analysis, structural equation modeling, and latent variable methods. In particular, he has conducted extensive psychometric work on harmonization of cognitive performance in older adults. His substantive areas of research are cognition and everyday function among older adults, and he has published important substantive and methodological research in gerontology using experimental psychological, neuropsychological, psychometric, and epidemiological perspectives in cognitive aging. He serves as a reviewing editor at Alzheimer’s & Dementia, statistical reviewer for JAMA Network Open, and section editor for PLOS Aging and Health. He received his PhD in public mental health and masters degrees in Biostatistics and public mental health from JHSPH in Baltimore, MD, followed by a postdoctoral fellowship in cognitive aging at the Institute for Aging Research at Harvard Medical School in Boston, MA.