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Madeleine E. Hackney, PhD (she/her/hers)

Associate Professor
Emory University and Atlanta VAMC
ATLANTA, GA, United States

Dr. Madeleine Hackney is a neurokinesiologist focused on the intersection of dance, mobility, and brain health in aging and neurodegenerative disease. She is an Associate Professor of Medicine with Tenure, a Research Health Scientist with the Atlanta VA Center for Visual and Neurocognitive Rehabilitation (CVNR) and an Investigator with the Birmingham/Atlanta VA Geriatric Research, Education and Clinical Center (GRECC). She holds adjunct positions with Emory Department of Rehabilitation Medicine and with the Emory/GA Tech join Biomedical Engineering Department. Dr. Hackney earned her Bachelor of Fine Arts in Dance Performance at the New York University Tisch School of the Arts in 1994. From 1994-2005, she worked as a professional contemporary social, and ballroom dancer with international performance credits. From 2003-2005, she completed pre-medical curriculum at Hunter College, City University of New York and then worked to earn her PhD in Movement Science from Washington University in St. Louis from 2005-200. In 2009, Dr. Hackney, she joined the VA and in 2010, she joined Emory University. In 2018, Dr. Hackney became training faculty in the Emory Neuroscience Graduate Program. in 2015 she was the lecturer for the Fulbright association Selma Jeanne Cohen lectureship. She is an affiliated faculty with the Neuroscience and Behavioral Biology Program within Emory University (since 2021). She served as an Science Gallery Atlanta faculty fellow from 2022-2023. She has received funding from the U. S. Department of Veterans Affairs, the NIH, the NSF, the Patient Centered Outcomes Research Institute, the Parkinson Foundation, and the CDC. She reviews grant applications for the VA, the NIH, and the National Endowment for the Arts. Her research has received media coverage in the New York Times, Scientific American, the Atlanta Journal Constitution, NPR, CNN, and in Musicophilia, by Oliver Sachs. Dr. Hackney has presented her work nationally and internationally.

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