Dr Alden Gross

Dr. Alden Gross is a psychiatric epidemiologist in the Department of Epidemiology at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health (JHSPH) with a substantive research interest in cognitive aging and mental health.

Dr. Gross maintains a strong methodological background, with specialized training in statistical methods including multilevel modeling, clinical trials, methods for accounting for missing data, structural equation modeling, and latent variable methods. In particular, he has conducted extensive psychometric work on harmonization of cognitive performance data in older adults. His substantive areas of research are cognition and everyday function among older adults, and he has published important substantive and methodological research in gerontology using experimental psychological, neuropsychological, psychometric, and epidemiological perspectives in cognitive ageing.

He teaches courses in the epidemiology of aging and measurement theory, and is an Associate Editor of BMC Research Methodology and the Journal of Alzheimer's Disease, and a statistical reviewer for JAMA. He received his PhD in public mental health and masters degrees in Biostatistics and public mental health from JHSPH in Baltimore, MD, followed by a postdoctoral fellowship in cognitive ageing at the Institute for Aging Research at Harvard Medical School in Boston, MA.