Diandra Denier Fields earned her Ph.D. in Nutritional Sciences with a Minor in Epidemiology from UW-Madison in 2023, focusing on the links between lifestyle, dietary patterns, and plasma metabolomics, particularly in relation to Alzheimer’s Disease (AD) and Cerebral Vascular Disease (CBVD). As a Post-Doctoral researcher at UW-Madison, her current research centers on mediation analysis to elucidate the relationship between diet or lifestyle exposure, plasma and CSF metabolomics, and brain health outcomes, encompassing CBVD, cognitive decline, and AD.