Katherine Turk, MD
Assistant Professor
Boston University Chobanian & Avedisian School of Medicine
Neurology

MD, Tufts University School of Medicine
BA, University of Chicago



Dr. Turk is a board-certified Neurologist specialized in Cognitive and Behavioral Neurology. She earned her medical degree from Tufts University School of Medicine and then completed her Internship and Neurology residency at the University of Washington in Seattle. She completed her fellowship training in Behavioral Neurology at Boston University/VA Boston. She sees patients at the Boston VA Memory Disorders clinic and is also a principal investigator and co-director of the Center for Translational Cognitive Neuroscience lab (CTCN) at VA Boston. She serves as the co-Leader of the Outreach, Recruitment and Engagement core of the Boston University Alzheimer's disease Research Center. She has received research funding from the Alzheimer's Association, the Doris Duke Foundation and the US Department of Veterans Affairs. Dr. Turk's research interests include behavioral interventions for autobiographical memory loss in clinical populations including veterans with Alzheimer's disease and Traumatic Brain Injury as well the investigation of event-related potentials as clinical diagnostic biomarkers.

VA Boston Healthcare System




Boston University Alzheimer's Disease Research Center
08/15/2021 - 06/30/2026 (Key Person)
PI: Ann C. McKee, MD
NIH/National Institute on Aging
5P30AG072978-04

Event-related potentials in the clinical management of Alzheimer's disease and Traumatic Brain Injury
06/16/2022 - 12/31/2024 (Multi-PI)
PI: Katherine Turk, MD
VoxNeuro, Inc.


Diagnosis of Alzheimer's Disease Using Event Related Potentials
10/12/2020 - 12/31/2020 (Subcontract PI)
Boston VA Research Institute, Inc. Alzheimer's Assoc


Personnel Agreement for the Research Services of Alaa Abdul El-Shaar
01/01/2017 - 09/30/2017 (PI)
VA Boston Healthcare System




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  1. Vives-Rodriguez AL, Marin A, Schiloski KA, Hajos GP, Di Crosta A, Ceccato I, La Malva P, Anderson DC, Lahdo N, Donnelly K, Dong J, Kasha S, Rooney C, Dayaw J, Marton G, Wack A, Hanger V, DeCaro R, Di Domenico A, Turk KW, Palumbo R, Budson AE. Impact of remote social interaction during the COVID-19 pandemic on the cognitive and psychological status of older adults with and without cognitive impairment: A randomized controlled study. PLoS One. 2024; 19(11):e0311792.View Related Profiles. PMID: 39531433; PMCID: PMC11556722; DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0311792;
     
  2. O'Connor MK, Frank B, DeCaro R, Vives-Rodriguez A, Hurley L, Turk KW, Budson AE. Suspected Pseudobulbar Affect in Neurodegenerative Disease. Int J Geriatr Psychiatry. 2024 Oct; 39(10):e70002.View Related Profiles. PMID: 39434195
     
  3. Turk KW, Knobel MD, Nothern A, Friedman G, Noah H, Campbell B, Anderson DC, Charidimou A, Mills A, Coronel V, Pierre N, Reynolds BV, Wagner C, Varga LM, Roefaro J, Triantafylidis L, Budson AE. An Interprofessional Team for Disease-Modifying Therapy in Alzheimer Disease Implementation. Neurol Clin Pract. 2024 Dec; 14(6):e200346.View Related Profiles. PMID: 39185104; PMCID: PMC11340999; DOI: 10.1212/CPJ.0000000000200346;
     
  4. Campbell BP, Turk KW, Budson AE. The major challenges with pharmacologic management of chronic traumatic encephalopathy. Expert Rev Neurother. 2024 Nov; 24(11):1035-1039.View Related Profiles. PMID: 39099111
     
  5. Smith AM, Marin A, DeCaro RE, Feinn R, Wack A, Hughes GI, Rivard N, Umashankar A, Turk KW, Budson AE. Algorithmic Spaced Retrieval Enhances Long-Term Memory in Alzheimer Disease: Case-Control Pilot Study. JMIR Form Res. 2024 Jul 19; 8:e51943.View Related Profiles. PMID: 39028554; PMCID: PMC11297374; DOI: 10.2196/51943;
     
  6. Marin A, Turk KW, Schiloski K, Vives-Rodriguez A, Suh C, Uppal P, Dwyer B, Palumbo R, Budson AE. The Use of Event Related Potentials to Predict Amyloid PET Status Among Patients from a Memory Disorders Clinic. J Alzheimers Dis. 2024; 100(4):1195-1208.View Related Profiles. PMID: 38995774; PMCID: PMC11380249; DOI: 10.3233/JAD-231038;
     
  7. Montoliu-Gaya L, Alosco ML, Yhang E, Tripodis Y, Sconzo D, Ally M, Grötschel L, Ashton NJ, Lantero-Rodriguez J, Sauer M, Gomes B, Nilsson J, Brinkmalm G, Sugarman MA, Aparicio HJ, Martin B, Palmisano JN, Steinberg EG, Simkin I, Turk KW, Budson AE, Au R, Farrer L, Jun GR, Kowall NW, Stern RA, Goldstein LE, Qiu WQ, Mez J, Huber BR, Alvarez VE, McKee AC, Zetterberg H, Gobom J, Stein TD, Blennow K. Optimal blood tau species for the detection of Alzheimer's disease neuropathology: an immunoprecipitation mass spectrometry and autopsy study. Acta Neuropathol. 2023 Dec 30; 147(1):5.View Related Profiles. PMID: 38159140; PMCID: PMC10757700; DOI: 10.1007/s00401-023-02660-3;
     
  8. Anderson DC, DeCaro RE, Chadalavada M, Marin A, Di Crosta A, Ceccato I, Malva P, Mammarella N, Di Domenico A, Turk KW, Palumbo R, Budson AE. Characteristics of Home and Neighborhood Built Environments During COVID-19 for Older Adults in the United States and Italy. J Aging Environ. 2023 Oct 25; 2023:1-37.View Related Profiles. PMID: 39055175; PMCID: PMC11271746; DOI: 10.1080/26892618.2023.2269552;
     
  9. Ally M, Sugarman MA, Zetterberg H, Blennow K, Ashton NJ, Karikari TK, Aparicio HJ, Frank B, Tripodis Y, Martin B, Palmisano JN, Steinberg EG, Simkin I, Farrer LA, Jun GR, Turk KW, Budson AE, O'Connor MK, Au R, Goldstein LE, Kowall NW, Killiany R, Stern RA, Stein TD, McKee AC, Qiu WQ, Mez J, Alosco ML. Cross-sectional and longitudinal evaluation of plasma glial fibrillary acidic protein to detect and predict clinical syndromes of Alzheimer's disease. Alzheimers Dement (Amst). 2023; 15(4):e12492.View Related Profiles. PMID: 37885919; PMCID: PMC10599277; DOI: 10.1002/dad2.12492;
     
  10. Friedman G, Turk KW, Budson AE. The Current of Consciousness: Neural Correlates and Clinical Aspects. Curr Neurol Neurosci Rep. 2023 Jul; 23(7):345-352.View Related Profiles. PMID: 37303019; PMCID: PMC10287796; DOI: 10.1007/s11910-023-01276-0;
     
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2013 Alpha Omega Alpha: Inductee
2013-2015 Neurology Residency Curriculum Committee: Member
2009-2011 Clinical Honors in Psychiatry
2008-2011 Joseph Collins Foundation Scholarship
2007-2009 Preclinical Honors in Neuroscience and Cell and Tissue Biology
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