Linnea Pepper, MD joined the Penn Memory Center in 2018 as a geriatrics fellow. Originally from Birmingham, Alabama, Dr. Pepper completed her B.S. in Molecular Biology (double majoring in French) at Auburn University in 2011. She received her MD from the University of Alabama at Birmingham, where she was introduced to geriatric medicine and memory disorders as a Reynolds Scholar. In 2015 she moved to Philadelphia where she completed her residency in internal medicine at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania. Her clinical interests include memory disorders, particularly Alzheimer’s disease. Her research interests are broad and still very much in development, but include cognitive frailty and the effects of anesthesia and surgery on cognition.