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Sara Garcia Ptacek is an Assistant Professor and Docent at Karolinska Institutet, affiliated with the Department of Neurobiology, Care Sciences and Society and the Maria Eriksdotter research group. She maintains a dual role as a neurologist at the Cognitive Clinic, Karolinska University Hospital in Solna, with 50% research activity.
Her research spans dementia epidemiology, geriatric neurology, and registry-based studies. Key interests include medication repurposing to slow cognitive decline, the impact of COVID-19 on dementia care, and dementia with Lewy bodies through collaboration with the European Dementia with Lewy bodies consortium. She utilizes the Swedish Dementia Registry (SveDem) with over 100,000 patients for longitudinal cognitive assessment studies.
Her recent publications demonstrate strong focus on health disparities in dementia care, comorbidity effects on cognitive trajectories, and methodological innovations combining traditional cohort studies with machine learning. Her work frequently appears in high-impact journals including Nature Communications, Neurology, and JAMA Network Open.
Scientific recognition includes:
- Docent in Neurosciences at Karolinska Institutet (2023)
- Fellow of the European Board of Neurology (FEBN) (2019)
- Prize for Clinical Thesis from Spanish National Royal Academy of Medicine (2017)
- Excellence prize for PhD thesis from Universidad Complutense de Madrid (2015)
Current research initiatives include "Innovative ways to fight Alzheimer's disease" (funded by Leif Lundblad Family donation, 2023-2026) and "Causal inference using Dynamic Bayesian Networks" (Loo and Hans Osterman Foundation, 2022-2023). Her work bridges clinical neurology with population health research, focusing on improving dementia diagnosis, care quality, and treatment outcomes through registry science.
She contributes to major international collaborations including the European Dementia with Lewy bodies (E-DLB) consortium and maintains active research on pandemic impacts on dementia care and health disparities in dementia diagnostics.
