Sue Halpern

In 1985, after receiving a doctorate from Oxford University, where she studied as a Rhodes Scholar, Sue Halpern went to work at Columbia University's College of Physicians and Surgeons where she taught ethics and social medicine. Twenty years later, after a career as both a writer and teacher, Halpern returned to Columbia to follow the work of a group of neuroscientists at the Taub Institute for Research on Alzheimer's and the Aging Brain. The years she spent in their company became the core of her latest book--her fifth--Can't Remember What I Forgot: The Good News From the Front Lines Of Memory Research. Halpern, a former Guggenheim fellow, is a scholar-in-residence at Middlebury College.