Katherine Lietz MSW, LSW

Kate Lietz is a licensed social worker who joined the Penn FTD Center in August 2022, after completing her field training with the Penn Memory Center in the 2021-2022 academic year. At the FTD Center, Kate provides support and education to individuals and loved ones impacted by a diagnosis of FTD or related dementia. She also runs support groups for caregivers loving someone with early-onset memory and thinking changes. She graduated from Boston College with a degree in Sociology and received her Master’s in Social Work from the University of Pennsylvania, where she specialized in geriatric practice. Kate also sees patients in the cognitive neurology and neuromuscular clinics at Penn Medicine.