Dr. Julia Sheffler is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Behavioral Sciences and Social Medicine at the Florida State University College of Medicine and is the Director of the Integrative Science for Healthy Aging laboratory at the FSU Center for Translational Behavioral Sciences. Dr. Sheffler received her bachelor’s degree from Southern Illinois University, her PhD in Clinical Psychology from Florida State University, and she completed her clinical internship at the Denver VA Medical Center.

Dr. Sheffler's research focuses on developing scalable lifestyle interventions for Alzheimer’s disease and other late-life health problems. Her earlier work focused on examining risk and resiliency factors related to late-life health and cognitive functioning in large epidemiological samples.

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