Colleen C. Frank, PhD

Dr. Colleen Frank is a Postdoctoral Scholar in the Department of Neurology. She works with Dr. Jason Hassenstab in the Cognitive Technology Research Laboratory where they study cognition in individuals with preclinical Alzheimer’s disease (AD) using highly sensitive assessments aimed at detecting the earliest stages of the condition. Prior to joining Washington University in St Louis in July 2025, Dr. Frank’s research primarily focused on age-related changes in decision making during normal aging. At WashU, she plans to extend her work to include pathological aging by investigating how financial and health-related decision making evolves in the years preceding and following an AD diagnosis.