Shana D. Stites, PsyD, MS, MA

Penn Medicine Provider

About me

  • Assistant Professor of Psychiatry at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania

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Publications

Stites SD, Kuz C, Largent EA, Harkins K, Krieger A, Sankar P, Barber SJ. Four Common Beliefs About Patient Memory Evaluations: Who Has Them and What Modifies Them? , American Journal of Alzheimer's Disease & Other Dementias ®, 41: 2026,1-15


Arce Rentería, M., Strangmann, I., Ghazi Saidi, L., Subina, M., Paplikar, A., Dash, T., Costa, A. S., Lahiri, D., Page, Z., Bose, A., Ahmed, S., Stites, S. D., D'Souza, A., Ellajosyula, R., Franzen, S., Alladi, S., de Leon, J., Calabria, M., Tee, B. L., Babulal, G. M., & Grasso, S. Deconstructing bilingualism and its sociocultural determinants in cognitive aging and ADRD , Alzheimer's Dement, 22: 2026,e71393


Stites SD, Kuz C, Harkins K, Sankar P, Coe NB, & Mittelman M. Effects of Caregiving Experience on Expectations of Becoming an Alzheimer’s Disease Caregiver in the Future , The Journals of Gerontology, Series B: Psychological Sciences and Social Sciences, 81(4): 2026


Stites SD, Dedhia M, & Kuz C. Predictors of Extreme Future Time Perspective Change in Persons who Learn an Alzheimer’s Disease Biomarker Test Result , Aging & Mental Health: 2026,1-17


Stites SD, Lee DS, Kuz C, Humphreys V, Streitz ML, Xie SX, Flatt J, Glover CM, & Mechanic-Hamilton D. Repeated Administration of Social and Structural Determinants of Health (SSDOH) Questions in an Alzheimer’s Disease Research Center*: The Aging Brain Study (ABC) Life Experience Survey , Sage Open Aging: 2026


Stites SD, Dedhia M, Harkins K, Karlawish J, Langbaum JB, Mather M, & Barber SJ. Learning about a heightened genetic risk for dementia: Anticipated stigma is greater than experienced stigma , Psychology and Aging, Advance online publication: 2026


Britt KC, Dong F, Hamilton JB, Massimo LM, Hodgson NA, Mechanic-Hamilton D. & Stites SD. A Cross-Sectional Analysis of Change in Church Activity with Cognitive, Functional, and Mental Health Among Black and White Older Adults , Dementia and Geriatric Cognitive Disorders EXTRA, Advance online publication.: 2026


Shaaban, C. E., Suryadevara, V., Hill, A. V., Milani, S. A., Agarwal, P., Aggarwal, N. T., Akinyemi, R. O., Alladi, S., Brown, M. J., Caldwell, J. Z. K., Caramelli, P., DuBose, L., Ellajosyula, R., Esiaka, D. K., Gibson, A., Griffith, P., Harper, J., Karanja, W., Li, W., Llibre-Guerra, J. J., Loi, S. M., Mielke, M. M., Molina-Henry, D. P., Ogunniyi, A., Pudumjee, S., Stites, S. D., Sundermann, E., Turner, A. D., Vila-Castelar, C., Viswanathan, J., Trani, J-F., Babulal, G. M., Diversity and Disparities Professional Interest Area’s Low- and Middle-Income Countries Work Group of the International Society to Advance Alzheimer’s Research and Treatment (ISTAART), Diversity and Disparities Professional Interest Area’s Sex and Gender Special Interest Group of the International Society to Advance Alzheimer’s Research and Treatment (ISTAART) The Population Neuroscience-Dementia Syndemics Framework to better understand global sex and gender-based risk in low- and middle-income countries , Nature Aging, 6: 2026,38-55


Britt KC, Dong F, Massimo LM, Hamilton JB, Hodgson NA, Stites SD. & Mechanic-Hamilton D. The Association of Spirituality & Memory in Older Black and White U.S. Adults , Journal of Religion, Spirituality & Aging, 38(1): 2026,1-15


Stites SD, Schumann R, Shi Y, Mechanic-Hamilton D, Wolk DA, & for the Alzheimer’s Disease Neuroimaging Initiative Depression and Anxiety Modify Cognitive Concerns Associated with Amyloid and Early Clinical Impairment , Neuropsychology: 2026