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Neurological Disorders, Sex And Gender: Effects Of Biological And Socio-Cultural Differences

Walter Rocca

Walter A. Rocca, M.D., M.P.H. is Professor of Epidemiology and Neurology and the Ralph S. and Beverley E. Caulkins Professor of Neurodegenerative Diseases Research at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota (USA).

Locally, he is Co-Director of the Rochester Epidemiology Project medical records-linkage system, Associate Director of the Specialized Center of Research Excellence (SCORE) on Sex Differences, and a member of the Steering Group for the Women’s Health Research Center.

Nationally, he has been member of the Science Committee of the American Academy of Neurology, and has served as Chair of its Clinical Research Subcommittee (2007-2014).

Dr. Rocca has recently focused his research on the effects of surgical menopause and estrogen on brain aging in women and on multi-morbidity as a clinical marker of accelerated aging. He is also contributing to the emerging fields of dimorphic neurology and dimorphic medicine (impact of sex and gender on health and diseases).