Wendy Q. Qiu, MD, PhD

Professor, Boston University Chobanian & Avedisian School of Medicine

Biography

Dr. Qiu is both a physician and a scientist. She is a Board Certified Psychiatrist who was trained at Tufts Medical Center and at the Payne Whitney Clinic, New York Presbyterian Hospital, Cornell Medical Center. She currently spends 50% of her time caring for patients with dementia and other psychiatric illnesses, including late life depression, and seeing patients in the ADC for the clinical trials. Many of her patients seek care at BU because they are frustrated with their deteriorating cognitive function and their behavior or mood symptoms are causing tremendous burdens for their caregivers. Motivated by her desire to help patients with devastating diseases in geriatric psychiatry, especially dementia which frequently lacks diagnostic tools and effective therapies, Dr. Qiu devotes the other 50% of her time to researching the fundamental causational mechanisms of these diseases, and to translate her findings to seeking biomarkers for the diagnoses and treatment of psychiatric illnesses.

Publications

  • Published 10/23/2024

    Tong T, Zhu C, Farrell JJ, Khurshid Z, Martin ER, Pericak-Vance MA, Wang LS, Bush WS, Schellenberg GD, Haines JL, Qiu WQ, Lunetta KL, Farrer LA, Zhang X. Blood-derived mitochondrial DNA copy number is associated with Alzheimer disease, Alzheimer-related biomarkers and serum metabolites. Alzheimers Res Ther. 2024 Oct 23; 16(1):234. PMID: 39444005.

    Read at: PubMed

  • Published 10/15/2024

    Yuan J, Tao Q, Ang TFA, Liu C, Devine S, Auerbach SH, Mez J, Farrer LA, Qiu WQ, Au R. The Relationship between Framingham Stroke Risk Profile on Incident Dementia and Alzheimer's Disease: A 40-Year Follow-Up Study Highlighting Female Vulnerability. Ann Neurol. 2024 Dec; 96(6):1124-1134. PMID: 39404028.

    Read at: PubMed

  • Published 10/1/2024

    Kang M, Li C, Mahajan A, Spat-Lemus J, Durape S, Chen J, Gurnani AS, Devine S, Auerbach SH, Ang TFA, Sherva R, Qiu WQ, Lunetta KL, Au R, Farrer LA, Mez J. Subjective Cognitive Decline Plus and Longitudinal Assessment and Risk for Cognitive Impairment. JAMA Psychiatry. 2024 Oct 01; 81(10):993-1002. PMID: 38959008.

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  • Published 10/1/2024

    van Gils V, Tao Q, Ang TFA, Young CB, Mormino EC, Qiu WQ, Visser PJ, Au R, Jansen WJ, Vos SJB. Associations Between Glucose Metabolism Measures and Amyloid-ß and Tau Load on PET 14 Years Later: Findings From the Framingham Heart Study. Diabetes Care. 2024 Oct 01; 47(10):1787-1793. PMID: 39078159.

    Read at: PubMed

  • Published 9/16/2024

    Chen J, Ragab AAY, Doyle MF, Alosco ML, Fang Y, Mez J, Satizabal CL, Qiu WQ, Murabito JM, Lunetta KL. Inflammatory protein associations with brain MRI measures: Framingham Offspring Cohort. Alzheimers Dement. 2024 Nov; 20(11):7465-7478. PMID: 39282876.

    Read at: PubMed

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Other Positions

  • Professor, Pharmacology, Physiology & Biophysics
    Boston University Chobanian & Avedisian School of Medicine
  • Investigator
    Framingham Heart Study
  • Member, Evans Center for Interdisciplinary Biomedical Research
    Boston University
  • Co-director of Biomarker Core, Alzheimer's Disease Research Center
    Boston University Chobanian & Avedisian School of Medicine

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Education

  • Beijing Medical University, MD
  • Cornell University Medical College, PhD

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