Faculty

Annette L Fitzpatrick

Research Professor Emeritus, Epidemiology
Research Professor Emeritus, Family Medicine

206-616-9394

Education

PhD Epidemiology, University of Washington, 1999
MA Zoology, Southern Illinois University, 1981
BS Biology, Loyola University (Chicago), 1975

Contact

206-616-9394

Box 354922
Research Section, Department of Family Medicine
4225 Roosevelt Way NW, Suite 308
Seattle, WA 98105
University of Washington
Office F-358A, Health Sciences Building
University of Washington
Box: 354696
Seattle, WA 98195

Research Interests

Studies of aging and chronic diseases; cardiovascular disease and its risk factors; physical and cognitive functioning in the elderly; dementia including Alzheimer's disease and vascular dementia; chronic disease in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs)

Recent Publications (PubMed)

Integrating contextual determinants and polygenic risk to examine dementia and late-life cognition in the Multi-Ethnic Study of Atherosclerosis.
(2026 Apr)
Alzheimers Dement 22(4): e71384
Xue D, Hirsch JA, Besser L, Hughes TM, Blue EE, Fitzpatrick AL, Fohner AE

The Dog Aging Project End of Life Survey reveals owners' perceptions of canine death and highlights areas to improve client education.
(2026 Mar 11)
J Am Vet Med Assoc
McNulty KE, Ruple A, Fitzpatrick A, Wilkins V, Dog Aging Project Consortium, Creevy KE

Plasma Proteome Signature for Leukocyte Telomere Length and Its Link to Abdominal Aortic Aneurysm.
(2026 Feb)
J Cell Mol Med 30(3): e71047
Li A, Austin TR, Steffen BT, Jacobson I, Xie J, Pankratz N, Lane JA, Fitzpatrick A, Bis JC, Arking DE, Mosley T, Sedaghat S, Pankow JS, Lutsey PL, Guan W, Tang W

The Epilepsy-Cog study: methods to establish a harmonized study of late-onset epilepsy in a meta-cohort of six population-based cohorts in the United States.
(2026 Feb 2)
medRxiv
Choi H, Gutierrez J, Wang T, Liu M, Leu CS, Misiewicz S, Han J, Bello N, Biggs ML, BriceƱo EM, Brickman AM, Burke JF, Chen L, Colantonio LD, Diaz Andino SP, Elkind MSV, Fitzpatrick AL, Gonzalez Corona C, Gross AL, Huang L, Johnson EL, Johnson WC, Levine DA, Longstreth WT, Pelagalli Maia S, Mayeux RP, Petersen BC, Obalana O, Reyes-Dumeyer D, Rundek T, Sanchez D, Shea SJ, Strobino K, Zhu CW, Thacker EL

ASSOCIATION ANALYSIS OF MITOCHONDRIAL HETEROPLASMIC VARIANTS AND CARDIOMETABOLIC TRAITS.
(2026 Jan 25)
medRxiv
Sun X, Liu X, Bulekova K, Pitsillides AN, Guo X, Yong Q, Raffield LM, Rotter JI, Rich SS, Abecasis G, Carson AP, Vasan RS, Bis JC, Psaty BM, Boerwinkle E, Fitzpatrick AL, Satizabal CL, Arking DE, Ding J, Levy D, TOPMed mtDNA working group, Liu C

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