Denise Park, PhD

Denise C. Park, PhD, is Professor of Psychology and Senior Research Scientist at the University of Michigan. She is Director of the Center for Applied Cognitive Research on Aging, which is funded by the National Institute on Aging. Dr. Park received her PhD in 1977 at the State University of New York at Albany. She came to the University of Michigan in 1995 from the University of Georgia, where she was Professor of Psychology and Director of the Applied Cognitive Aging Center. She is past...See more

Denise C. Park, PhD, is Professor of Psychology and Senior Research Scientist at the University of Michigan. She is Director of the Center for Applied Cognitive Research on Aging, which is funded by the National Institute on Aging. Dr. Park received her PhD in 1977 at the State University of New York at Albany. She came to the University of Michigan in 1995 from the University of Georgia, where she was Professor of Psychology and Director of the Applied Cognitive Aging Center. She is past president of the Division of Adult Development and Aging of the American Psychological Association, past chair of the NIH Mental Disorders of Aging Study Section, and recently finished a term in the APA Council of Representatives, where she was secretary of the Women's Caucus. She was Chair of the Board of Scientific Affairs of the APA from 1999-2000 and is Associate Editor of "The American Psychologist." Dr. Park directs a large and active research program at the University of Michigan, funded primarily by multiple grants from the National Institute on Aging. Her work is highly collaborative as she works with faculty, postdoctoral fellows, and graduate students from Psychology, the Medical School and the Alcohol Research Center. Her research interests include: memory and aging, functional neuroimaging of aging and memory, cognition in medical settings and aging, cognition aging and culture, social cognition and aging, fibromyalgia and memory function, and alcoholism, aging and memory. See less