Keenan Walker, Ph.D.

Dr. Keenan Walker is a Senior Investigator at the National Institute on Aging (NIA) Intramural Research Program, and he is Chief of the Multimodal Imaging of Neurodegenerative Disease Section (MINDS). He received his Ph.D. in clinical psychology from St. John's University and completed his pre-doctoral internship in clinical neuropsychology at the University of California San Diego / VA San Diego Healthcare System before beginning an NIH-funded postdoctoral fellowship at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. Shortly thereafter he began his career as a Tenure-Track Investigator at NIA. Dr. Walker currently runs a research program focused on identifying biomarkers and therapeutic targets for Alzheimer's disease and related dementias.