Sophia Wang, MD, MS, FAPA, Core Leader, is an Assistant Professor of Clinical Psychiatry at the Indiana University School of Medicine and the Wesley P. Martin Endowed Scholar for Alzheimer's Education. Dr. Wang completed her M.D. and general psychiatry residency at the Mount Sinai School of Medicine. After residency, she pursued a VA Neurosciences Research Fellowship with a focus on neurodegenerative disorders at the James J. Peters VAMC affiliated with Mount Sinai School of Medicine and then a geriatric psychiatry fellowship at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF). She became a co-investigator in the OREC at the NIA-designated Indiana Alzheimer's Disease Research Center (IADRC) in 2015 and was promoted to OREC Leader in 2020. In 2021, she was elected to a three-year term on the National Alzheimer’s Coordinating Center (NACC) ORE Core Steering Committee and currently serves as its chair (2022-2023). Her awards include the 2018 American Psychiatric Association Hartford-Jeste Future Leaders in Geriatric Psychiatry and the 2020 Honorable Mention American Association of Geriatric Psychiatry (AAGP) Barry Lebowitz Early Career Research Award. As the ORE Core Leader, her primary area of interest is recruitment science, with a focus on developing culturally sensitive recruitment strategies to increase Alzheimer’s disease neuroimaging and biomarker research participation of underrepresented groups. Her current funding also includes an NIA-funded K23 career development focused on ICU delirium and Alzheimer's disease, and an NIA-funded R21 to study the mechanisms connecting COVID-19 critical illness and Alzheimer's disease.