Dana Waltzman, PhD

Dana Waltzman, PhD, is an Associate Research Professor and Research Director within the Indiana University School of Medicine’s Department of Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation. She received her PhD in Psychology specializing in Cognitive Neuroscience at the University of California, Los Angeles. She completed two post-doctoral fellowships at the Memory and Aging Center at the University of California, San Francisco and a joint fellowship at Stanford University and the Department of Veterans Affairs, Palo Alto. Her previous role was as a Behavioral Scientist on the Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI) team at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). Dr. Waltzman’s research focuses on leveraging epidemiology, statistical, and data science methods to improve health outcomes for vulnerable populations. She has expertise in analyzing surveillance, clinical, and observational research data to identify risk factors, reduce adverse outcomes, and inform evidence-based interventions.

 

Dr. Waltzman has authored more than 60 peer-reviewed publications and has received several awards acknowledging her contributions, including the 2018 and 2019 Excellence in Public Health Protection CDC Award, the 2021 CDC Honor Award for Health Equity, the 2021 CDC Honor Award for Excellence in Epidemiology, and the 2024 Global Neurosurgery Paper of the Year Award for a firearm-related TBI manuscript from the Congress of Neurological Surgeons.