Erin Spaulding, PhD, RN is an Assistant Professor at the Johns Hopkins School of Nursing; Associate Faculty in the Welch Center for Prevention, Epidemiology and Clinical Research at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health; and Director of the Long-term Wearable Study Core in the ARIC Neurocognitive Study (ARIC NCS). She obtained her PhD at Johns Hopkins University after receiving her BSN from the University of New Hampshire and working as an intensive care unit nurse at Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center. She also completed a post-doctoral fellowship in Cardiovascular Epidemiology at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine and Bloomberg School of Public Health.