Alison

G.

Abraham

,

PhD

Dr. Abraham worked as a biomedical engineer for several years before pursuing a career in epidemiology and public health.  She recieved her Masters degree in Biostatistics in 2005 and her Doctoral degree in  Epidemiology in 2008 from Johns Hopkins University.  Dr. Abraham has been faculty in the Department of Epidemiology at Johns Hopkins since 2008 and now has a primary appointment in the Dana Center for Preventative Ophthalmology in the School of Medicine. Dr. Abraham is faculty in the data coordinating centers for several large prospective cohort studies housed in the Statistics in Epidemiology group, for which she provides epidemiological and statistical support, oversees data quality and contributes to methodological development. She has worked extensively in the area of age-related comorbidities with an emphasis on aging HIV-infected populations. She is the principle investigator of the Eye Determinants of Cognition (EyeDOC) study, an investigation of vision and cognition in an aging cohort that uses state of the art imaging technology to capture microvascular and neuronal abnormalities in the eye. She is currently working on issues of sensory deficit in the context of HIV, to understand the prevalence of vision loss and disease, and how it may affect quality of life and functioning and whether it may predict systemic disease. Dr Abraham's research seeks to use the eye as a window to other disease processes.