Maine Health, Aging and Lifestyle Lab

Fayeza Ahmed, PhD | Director, HAL Lab 

**Note to applicants: Dr. Ahmed does not plan to take a new student for the 2023-2024 academic year.

Dr. Fayeza Ahmed is an Assistant Professor of Psychology at the University of Maine and one of the graduate faculty for the Clinical Psychology PhD program. She earned her PhD in Psychology from the University of Georgia in 2011, where she specialized in Clinical Neuropsychology. Dr. Ahmed completed a Neuropsychology predoctoral internship at the VA Maryland Healthcare System/University of Maryland Medical School Internship Consortium (2008- 2009). After graduating, she completed a Neuropsychology postdoctoral fellowship at Cornell Medical School (2011-2012) and a second Neuropsychology postdoctoral fellowship at the VA Puget Sound Healthcare System (2012-2014). From there, Dr. Ahmed went on to her first academic position as Assistant Professor of Psychology at Eastern Illinois University (2014-2016). She joined the University of Maine in 2016.

Dr. Ahmed’s clinical and research interests are in vascular health and its role in Alzheimer’s disease, with particular interest in modifiable risk factors during middle age. Current research projects are aimed at examining the role of modifiable risk factors, such as exercise, on cognitive and cerebrovascular function.

Dr. Ahmed is also the Associate Director of the Maine-Syracuse Longitudinal Study, a longitudinal study on multiple cardiovascular factors and cognitive function, with data collection from 1974-2012. She works alongside the director (Dr. Merril (Pete) Elias and Dr. Michael Robbins) and is in charge of facilitating collaboration with researchers within and outside the university. For more information about the MSLS, see mslsperspectives.net