Sandra Bond Chapman

Who is Sandra Bond Chapman?

Sandra Bond Chapman, Ph.D., founder and chief director of the Center for BrainHealth, is the Dee Wyly Distinguished Professor in Brain Health, and a Professor in the School of Behavioral and Brain Sciences at The University of Texas at Dallas. Dr. Chapman’s research elucidates novel approaches to prevent mental decline and to maximize frontal lobe function after brain injuries and diseases, and how to strengthen healthy brain development across the lifespan. Her research documents that brain health and maximizing brain function is a cause that touches every person. As Chief Director of the Center for BrainHealth, her vision is for the Center to become an international focal point for brain health discovery by applying the latest in brain research to faster treatments than those that came before. With more than 120 publications and 40 funded research grants, Dr. Chapman is a cognitive neuroscientist dedicated to translating leading-edge research to serve as a national public health road map both in discovery of ways to maintain cognitive health into late life and build critical thinking and reasoning skills in today’s youth. On the new frontier of brain research, Dr.