Heather Allore

Heather Allore, PhD, MSc is a Professor of Medicine (Geriatrics) and Biostatistics at Yale School of Medicine, where she leads the Data Management and Statistics Core of the Yale Alzheimer's Disease Research Center. As a pioneer in gerontologic biostatistics, she develops innovative statistical methods for aging research, focusing on cognition-function-mortality joint trajectories and precision medicine for older adults with multimorbidity.

• Director, Design and Statistics Core, Embedded Pragmatic Alzheimer’s Disease Clinical Trials Collaboratory
• Co-Director, Biostatistics Core, Yale Transdisciplinary Collaborative Center for Precision Medicine
• Senior Biostatistician, Internal Medicine: Rheumatology

Her research bridges

• Aging and Dementia: Alzheimer's disease clinical trials, cognitive decline patterns
• Methodological Innovation: Latent class modeling, longitudinal data analysis
• Health Equity: Addressing disparities in dementia care and aging populations
• Clinical Trial Design: Pragmatic trials for elderly patients

Scientific Recognition

• Fellow, Gerontological Society of America (2016)
• Women’s Midcareer Leadership Award, AAMC (2014)
• Paul Harris Fellow, Rotary International (2012)

Leadership in NIH/NIA:

• Co-Chair, Study Design Component, 21st Century Cures Act: Inclusion Across Lifespan (2017, 2020)
• Chair, Alzheimer's Disease Research Center Data Cores Steering Committee
• Co-Lead, Data and Measures Committee, NIA-funded AGING Initiative