Suzan van Amerongen, MD

Research Fellow CTE Center Boston University Chobanian & Avedisian School of Medicine

Suzan graduated from Utrecht University (The Netherlands), where she obtained her degree in medicine in 2018. After two years of work as a physician at different neurology departments, she started her PhD trajectory at the Alzheimer Center Amsterdam in 2020. Here, she established the first cohort in the Netherlands with patients at risk for CTE: the NEwTON cohort. She has been responsible for the whole preparation and setup of this study, including the setup of an autopsy brain donor program in collaboration with the Netherlands Brain Bank. Suzan joined the Stern Lab in September 2022 and works as a Research Fellow for the DIAGNOSE CTE Research Project.