Natalia Loskutova, MD

Natalia is a graduate student in the Department of Physical Therapy and Rehabilitation Sciences. She is working towards her PhD in the area of physical health of patients with dementia; particularly she is interested in bone health. She joined the KU Alzheimer and Memory program in the spring of 2008 to work with diffusion tensor imaging to examine bone remodeling in Alzheimer’s disease and its relation to brain health, cognition, and other measures of physical health. Natalia graduated with honors from Medical Academy in Russia in 1998. She worked as a staff psychiatrist in a psychiatric hospital in Russia. The major clinical observation she made during all these years is that despite the "loss of contact with reality" patients with psychiatric issues can have very real physical issues that are often not addressed because treating staff concentrates on the patients’ hallucinations.