Dawn J. Mechanic-Hamilton, PhD
she/her/hers
Neuropsychology
Accepting new patients
Sees patients age 18 and up
Penn Memory Center
Penn Medicine Provider

About me

  • Clinical Director, Cognitive Fitness Program
  • Associate Professor of Neurology at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania

Education and training

  • Graduate School: Drexel University College of Nursing & Health Professions
  • Fellowship: University of Pennsylvania Health System

Insurance accepted

My Locations

Penn Medicine hospital privileges

  • Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania: Advanced Practice Provider
  • Pennsylvania Hospital: Advanced Practice Provider
  • Penn Presbyterian Medical Center: Advanced Practice Provider
Dr. Mechanic-Hamilton is a Penn Medicine provider.

Qualifications and experience

Treatments and Conditions

My research

Li Y, Xie L, Khandelwal P, Wisse LEM, Brown CA, Prabhakaran K, Tisdall MD, Mechanic-Hamilton D, Detre JA, Das SR, Wolk DA, Yushkevich PA Automatic Segmentation of Medial Temporal Lobe Subregions in Multi-Scanner, Multi-Modality Magnetic Resonance Imaging of Variable Quality , Hippocampus, 35(6): 2025


Sachs BC, Latham LA, Isom S, Clark LR, Craft S, Duff K, Espeland MA, Farias ST, Gaussoin SA, Goldstein FC, Hampstead BM, Jayadev S, Jicha GA, Kukull WA, Leng XI, Mechanic-Hamilton D, Neugroschl J, Papp KV, Saykin AJ, Sewell MC, Rapp SR Multi-site video-based assessment with the NACC UDS-Version 3 battery: Design and participant experience in the V-Cog study , Alzheimer's & Dementia, 21(10): 2025


Kim B, Blam K, Elser H, Xie SX, Van Deerlin VM, Penning TM, Weintraub D, Irwin DJ, Massimo LM, McMillan CT, Mechanic-Hamilton D, Wolk DA, Lee EB Ambient Air Pollution and the Severity of Alzheimer Disease Neuropathology , JAMA Neurology: 2025


Stites SD, Kuz C, Halberstadter K, Humphreys V, Cousins KAQ, Mechanic-Hamilton D Societal Gender Norms and Their Influence on Late Life Cognition , Neurodegener Dis : 2025


Halberstadter K, Humphreys V, Rovere R, Liebenberg E, Mechanic-Hamilton D Technology Behaviors and Sentiments Among Cognitively Normal Older Adults using the Mobile Cognitive App Performance Platform , 53rd Annual Meeting of the International Neuropsychological Society : 2025


Stites SD, Kuz C, Halberstadter K, BS, Valerie Humphreys, MS, and Dawn Mechanic-Hamilton, PhD Childhood Caregiver Educational Attainment, Intergenerational Social Mobility and Alzheimer’s Risk , 53rd Annual Meeting of the International Neuropsychological Society : 2025


Herbst DA, Shakibajahromi B, Genuardi MV, Iyengar A, Mechanic-Hamilton D, Coslett HB, Atluri P, Favilla CG Brain Atrophy in Heart Failure Patients Following Left Ventricular Assist Device Implantation or Heart Transplantation , Journal of Heart and Lung Transplantation Open, 7: 2025,100211


Hackett K, Yidan S, Schankel L, Oliveira N, Kelley M, McCoubrey H, Manning Peskin S, O'Brien K, Xie SX, Wolk D, Mechanic-Hamilton D Feasibility, validity, and normative data for the remote Uniform Data Set neuropsychological battery at the University of Pennsylvania Alzheimer's Disease Research Center , Alzheimer's & Dementia: Diagnosis, Assessment & Disease Monitoring, 16(4): 2024


Tackett WS, Mechanic-Hamilton D, Das S, Mojena M, Stein JM, Davis KA, Detre JA Lateralization of memory function in temporal lobe epilepsy using scene memory fMRI , Epilepsia Open, 9(6): 2024,2487-2494


Kyra S. O’Brien, Dawn J. Mechanic-Hamilton, Katya Rascovsky, and Roy H. Hamilton "Degenerative Disorders of Cognition" in "Achieving Equity in Neurological Practice" , Springer: 2024